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Stirling Energy Systems (SES) is
developing a commercial Dish Stirling system, based on the McDonnell
Douglas dish system, for deployment initially in large utility-size
grid-connected fields. SES and Sandia continue to operate the 6-dish
(150 kW) “Model Power Plant” (MPP) at Sandia to explore field
communications and reliability issues and to validate changes in the
next-generation design. In the next several months, SES will be
constructing two new dishes at the MPP that incorporate a number of
structural design changes to reduce costs and improve performance. This
program will continue through 2008, with two additional dishes added to
the MPP in late 2008 as well. SES has signed agreements for the purchase
of power from two large plants in California. A plant for Southern
California Edison (SCE) will be 20,000 dish systems (500 MW), expandable
to 34,000 dishes. A plant for San Diego Gas and Electric will be 12,000
dishes, expandable to 36,000 dishes.
SES MPP in operation at Sandia National
Laboratories
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