{"id":5569,"date":"2021-01-10T00:51:39","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5569"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:26:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:26:16","slug":"southwest-us-could-get-250mw-solar-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5569","title":{"rendered":"Southwest US could get 250MW solar power plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/green.autoblog.com\/media\/2007\/02\/solar-trough.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>A group of southwestern US utility companies are working on plans to potentially build a 250MW power plant that harnesses the power of the sun. The plant would probably be based on solar trough technology instead of photo-voltaics, and could produce enough electricity for 160,000 to 200,000 homes. Currently there is a small scale solar trough plant supplying power to 200 homes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/hyundai\/tucson\/\">Tucson<\/a>, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>The solar trough setup uses arrays of parabolic mirrors that can track the sun across the sky. The mirrors focus the sunlight on a tube at their focus point that is filled with mineral oil that is heated to 600 degrees Fahrenheit. The hot oil is passed through a heat exchanger to produce steam that drives a electric turbine. The group hopes to get all the approvals to build the facility by early next year.<\/p>\n<p>[Source: TreeHugger]<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2007\/02\/26\/southwest-us-could-get-250mw-solar-power-plant\/<\/p>\n<p>2007-02-26T12:53:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of southwestern US utility companies are working on plans to potentially build a 250MW power plant that harnesses the power of the sun. The plant would probably be based on solar trough technology instead of photo-voltaics, and could produce\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9820,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5569\/revisions\/9820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}