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The Desert Sunlight Solar Farm is a 550- megawatt (MW AC) photovoltaic power station approximately six miles north of Desert Center, California, United States, in the Mojave Desert. It uses approximately 8.8 million cadmium telluride modules made by the US thin-film manufacturer First Solar.
Desert Sunlight represents a major milestone in scaling up solar technology as one of the largest completed PV solar projects in the world. The project will deploy First Solar’s commercially-available Series 3 thin-film cadmium-telluride solar modules.
The two largest solar power plants in the world—Desert Sunlight and Topaz Solar Farm, about 400 miles (640 km) to the west in central California—have come online in the past three months.
Desert Sunlight Solar Farm is a 550MW photovoltaic (PV) solar power project built across 3,600 acres of land in the Chuckwalla Valley, California, US.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar approved the Desert Sunlight Solar Farm, a 550-megawatt (MW) solar power project to be built in the California desert east of Palm Springs.
This battery energy storage project will help relieve the demand on the electrical grid by storing renewable energy generated from the Desert Sunlight Solar Farm and allow for consistent energy delivery during peak hours when the system may not be generating energy.
Briefly the world’s largest solar PV plant, Desert Sunlight remains an example of how California is charging ahead with its shift to renewable energy.
First Solar Development, Inc. (First Solar) has constructed a 550-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant project known as the Desert Sunlight Solar Farm (DSSF or Project). The DSSF includes three main components 1) the Solar Farm site, 2) a transmission line, and 3) a Southern California Edison (SCE) owned and operated substation ...
Secretary Sally Jewell today joined California state and industry leaders to “flip the switch” on the Desert Sunlight Solar Farm, the nation's largest solar project on public lands that is now delivering clean, renewable energy to American consumers.
The Sunlight Storage II project, which is being progressed by Sunlight Storage II LLC a wholly owned subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources LLC, will boost that storage capacity to 530 MW. The project would be situated within the existing fence line of the Desert Sunlight solar farm.