The Nellis Solar Power Plant is a 14-megawatt (MW) photovoltaic power station located within Nellis Air Force Base in Clark County, Nevada, northeast of Las Vegas. The power plant was inaugurated in a ceremony on December 17, 2007, with Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons activating its full operation. On average, it has since generated 32 gigawatt-hours of electricity annually and supplied more than 25% of the power used at the base.
Nellis Solar Power Plant, was the second largest photovoltaic power plant in North America when built
A section of the Nellis Solar Power Plant
President Barack Obama at the Nellis Solar Power Plant in 2009
A photovoltaic power station, also known as a solar park, solar farm, or solar power plant, is a large-scale grid-connected photovoltaic power system designed for the supply of merchant power. They are different from most building-mounted and other decentralized solar power because they supply power at the utility level, rather than to a local user or users. Utility-scale solar is sometimes used to describe this type of project.
The 40.5 MW Jännersdorf Solar Park in Prignitz, Germany
Serpa Solar Park built in Portugal in 2006
Solar arrays on a full landfill in Rehoboth, MA
Bellpuig Solar Park near Lerida, Spain uses pole-mounted 2-axis trackers