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A First-Of-Its-Kind Project Makes Energy From a Triple Whammy: Hot Rocks, Solar Panels and Mirrors (GigaOM)

Enel VP Bill Price and colleague inspect one of the parabolic troughs installed at the
Stillwater solar thermal plant. Photo by Katie Fehrenbacher. GigaOM.

In a few weeks, a first-of-its kind power plant — which uses energy from hot rocks deep in the earth, combined with the heat and light from the sun — will start producing power from all three sources at a site in Churchill County, Nevada, about a two-hour drive east of Reno.

The project is called the Stillwater Geothermal/Solar Hybrid plant, and Enel Green Power North America, an American division of the huge Italian power company Enel, is now hard at work finishing construction on the solar portion that collects the sun’s heat using large concave mirrors that concentrate the sunlight by 75 times.

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