NEVADA RENEWABLE ENERGY CONSORTIUM NVREC Desert Dri Form

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this is the Crescent Dune solar energy project located here in tanopa Nevada this project which opened back in 2015 had originally planned to power more than 75 000 Nevada homes and meet the state's Rising demand for electricity but today the project has faced a number of different challenges and even filed for bankruptcy back in 2020. therefore why was this project such a failure and what does the future hold for this one billion dollar facility to answer this we need to go back to 2011 when construction began on the project this solar farm was being developed by a company called Tonopah solar energy which was known for developing large-scale solar Farms the original plan for the project was to create a large-scale solar energy plant that would be able to produce electricity for up to 75 000 homes throughout the state and meet the rising demand for electricity throughout Nevada the development intended on using a new form of solar technology with ten thousand large mirrors that would