Phase one of the Fresno Clean Energy Park envisions a Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant, which will power a water processing plant integrated with a waste water treatment facility.
AREVA and Fresno Nuclear Energy Group, LLC, or FNEG, have signed a contract to initiate the first phase in the development of an advanced clean energy park near Fresno, California.
Phase one of the Fresno Clean Energy Park envisions a Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant, which will power a water processing plant integrated with a waste water treatment facility. The contract focuses on activities to support the feasibility assessments of the project.
The contract follows a series of milestones for the Fresno Clean Energy Park beginning with an April 2010 Memorandum of Understanding between AREVA and FNEG to begin development of the project using all AREVA technologies.
"Clean Energy Parks, like the one under development in Fresno, will help the US meet a growing demand for clean power generation using AREVA’s advanced nuclear energy and renewable technologies," said Jacques Besnainou, CEO of AREVA North America. "The technologies available include AREVA’s US EPR and other reactors, concentrated solar, offshore wind and biomass plants."
