Jamey
Stillings

Changing Perspectives - The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar

In 2010, I initiated the Ivanpah project with a brief flight over its future site before construction commenced. In 2014, Ivanpah Solar became one of the world's largest concentrated solar thermal power plants. 173,500 heliostats (347,000 mirrors) focus the sun's energy toward three towers with the capacity to create 392 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 140,000 US homes.

Renewable energy projects such as Ivanpah Solar also raise challenging questions about land and resource use, exposing differing perspectives and contradictions within the environmental movement, local communities, the energy industry, and general public. While Ivanpah Solar is located in the American West, the issues encountered during its planning and construction are global issues and relevant to future environmentally-responsible energy projects.

THE EVOLUTION OF IVANPAH SOLAR is now a traveling exhibition and a book published by Steidl in 2015.

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