Hualapai Valley Solar CSP Project Receives State Approval

The Hualapai Valley Solar Project is a proposed 340 MW parabolic-trough concentrating solar power plant. The plant’s design incorporates seven to eight hours of additional output once the sun is down by storing heat in molten salt tanks during the day.

The Concentrating Solar Power project is slated to be located approximately 28 miles north of Kingman, Ariz., on private land. It has firm transmission located a few miles from the site.

In its decision, the ACC noted that there is a shift toward dry cooling in the Southwest U.S. and that wet cooled power plants are unlikely to receive more approvals.

The project was designed to use an evaporative cooling system supplied with reclaimed wastewater. The CEC also allows the plant to use hybrid (water and air) cooling technology if sufficient reclaimed wastewater is not available.

Hualapai Valley Solar LLC (HVS) proposes to construct a 340MW concentrating solar power plant in Mohave County, Arizona, over 27 miles north of Kingman and 100 miles south of Las Vegas on approximately 4,000 acres of private land.

The HVS Project will use a proven parabolic trough technology that has been operational in the United States since the 1980s.

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