Heliogen, Inc., a specialist in AI-enabled concentrated solar power (CSP) technology, has achieved two product development milestones related to its Capella Project. The Capella project is a 5 MW commercial concentrating solar power plant to be built by Heliogen in Kern County, Calif. It will be constructed on a 117-acre field of computer-controlled heliostat mirrors focusing solar energy on receiver apertures on top of an approximate 330-foot-tall, centralized power tower. The project will add to Heliogens’s portfolio of commercially ready technologies and will broaden the space of potential applications to include variably sized power projects and improve economics for many customers. HelIogen also announced the opening of its first full-scale manufacturing facility last year, located in Long Beach, California, within close proximity to the project site, which will bring 250 full-time jobs to the region by 2025.

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