Solar power generation at Kramer Junction, Boron, San Bernardino County, CA
Kramer Junction receives an average of 340 days of sunshine per year, which makes it an ideal place for solar power generation. The average direct normal radiation (DNR) is 7.44 kWh/m²/day (310 W/m²),one of the best in the nation.
Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) in California, with the combined capacity from three separate locations at 354 megawatts (MW, 474,700 hp), is now the world's second largest solar thermal energy generating facility, after the commissioning of the even larger Ivanpah facility in 2014. It consists of nine solar power plants in California's Mojave Desert, where insolation is among the best available in the United States.
The reflectors at Kramer Junction site facing the western sky to focus the late afternoon sunlight at the absorber tubes.
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