Originally designed as part of an integrated solar combined-cycle system, this 500-acre site contained more than 1,100 solar collection assemblies with nearly 190,000 mirrored parabolic troughs, all of which had to be dismantled and removed with no glass debris left behind.
Transforming an undeveloped rural site into a construction-ready foundation that could support a 2.4-million-sq-ft solar manufacturing facility required comprehensive civil and sitework services.
The EPC contractor and Quanta subsidiary plans to use dozens of the autonomous excavators to install piles for solar array foundations on projects across the country.
Clean energy developer Arevon Energy this month launched work on the $600M, 300-MW Nighthawk energy storage facility with Rosendin as EPC contractor, and started operation of the $2B, 1-GW Eland Solar-plus-Storage Project built by SOLV Energy.
International facility plans to bolster its 23-MW microgrid with more than 11,000 photovoltaic panels adjacent to an existing 10,000-panel solar field.
Bechtel has been hired to provide design, engineering and construction for the final three phases of the $2.5-billion, 1.6-GWMammoth Solar facility in Indiana.
Operator NRG says its concentrating solar power technology has fallen behind solar silicon photovoltaic generation in terms of capital and operating costs.