However, this never occurred as the company that owned the 160 megawatt plant went bankrupt.
Additionally a 20 megawatt plant in Goodland, Kansas will produce electricity, ethanol, and biodiesel.
There are complex diagrams on the wall that once gave the control room staff valuable information on how the 3,200 megawatt plant was behaving.
The 11 megawatt plant, known as the PS10 solar power tower, produces electricity with 624 large heliostats.
If the study is successful, work may begin on a 650 megawatt plant.
Opened in February 1956 was a 32 megawatt plant.
A second license for a 4.1 megawatt plant was granted in 1996, but was again rescinded on the same grounds in 2000.
The 180 megawatt plant will emit an estimated 15 million tons of carbon dioxide over its 40-year lifetime.
The 4,000 megawatt plant would be Thailand's first.
Nearby Pebble Creek also has "very good" potential for a 200 megawatt plant.