Price ran the numbers for designs for various
heliostat field sizes of 350, 400, 450, and 500 MWt, all integrated into a 250 MW gross power cycle, to run for 5 or 6 hours of reliable capacity from 3 or 4 pm to 9 pm during the summer months, and with a 30 - year project life.
Not exact matches
The Next Gen
Heliostats appear to almost double in
size by 2013 - 2014 from the ST3
heliostats used at Bikaner, and a conceptual 100 MW
sized Power Tower Plant image shows the corners of the
heliostat fields cropped into hexagonal shapes reducing the modular
field cost and footprint.