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ACCIONA Dedicates Nevada Solar One Plant

ACCIONA (www.accionaenergia. com), an Alcobendas, Spain-based leader in renewable energy technologies, has dedicated Nevada Solar One, a 64-MW concentrating solar power plant based in Boulder City, NV. The plant - the world's third largest of its kind, and the largest to be built anywhere in 16 years - was inaugurated on Feb. 22, 2008, at a gathering that included leading scientists, environmentalists, federal and state officials, and industry executives.

Spread over 400 desert acres, the Nevada Solar One plant uses a parabolic trough design employing 182,000 curved mirrors that track and concentrate the sun's rays. This technology reportedly has the ...

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