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Solar energy generating system

Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) is a concentrated solar power plant in California, United States. With the combined capacity from three separate locations at 354 megawatt (MW), it was for thirty years the world's largest solar thermal energy generating facility, until the commissioning of the even larger Ivanpah facility in. Before retirement and replacement of SEGS I-VII with solar photovoltaics, the plants had a 354 MW net (394 MW gross) installed capacity. The nameplate capacity, which operating continuously,. The installation uses , technology along with to generate . About 90% of the electricity is produced by the . Natural gas is only used when. In February 1999, a 900,000-US-gallon (3,400 m ) storage tank exploded at the SEGS I (Daggett) solar power plant, sending flames and smoke into the sky. Authorities were trying to keep flames away from two adjacent containers that held and The SEGS power plants were built by , and commissioned between December 20, 1984 and October 1, 1990. After Luz Industries' in 1991 plants were sold to various investor groups as individual projects, and expansion including three more plants was. • • • •