Crescent

Crescent Lake Solar Power Station

The first three months of 2019 (January, February and March) showed good progression, topping all previous monthly data, but in April the plant was shut down because the project's sole buyer, NV Energy, terminated the Power Purchase Agreement for failure to produce the contracted power production.CountryUnited StatesLocation, Nye County, NevadaStatusPost-bankruptcy reorganization, restartConstruction began2011OverviewThe Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project is a project with an installed capacity of 110 (MW) and 1.1 gigawatt-hours of energy storage located near, about 190 miles (310 km) northw. . In late September 2011 Tonopah Solar Energy received a $737 million from the (DOE) and the right to build on public land. The capital stack included $1. . The project's was, which carried out the engineering design, procured the equipment and materials necessary, and then constructed and delivered the facility to Tonopah Solar Energy. Th. . Crescent Dunes began operation in September 2015, but went off-line in October 2016 due to a leak in a molten salt tank. It returned to operation in July 2017. While its average monthly production was expected t.