Renewable energy could help underpin the grid now that the world’s biggest concentrated solar storage plant is up and running in Arizona. It’s a zero-carbon power plant that could underpin the energy grid of the future.
In the searing heat south-west of Phoenix, Arizona, 3000 mirrors carpet the desert. Part of a power plant that produces about 900 gigawatt-hours of electricity a year, enough to power 70,000 homes.
Six enormous white tanks surround the platform. Filled with molten salt, they can store enough heat to keep those turbines spinning at full capacity for 6 hours.
(READ the story in the New Scientist)