Innovative Battery Manufacturing Facilities Construction management consultancy for building innovative battery manufacturing facilities in the United States. Bechtel is at the forefront of constructing innovative battery manufacturing facilities in the U.S. Our expert team ensures compliance with local codes and…
Read More
The Bechtel-built mine, one of the largest copper resources, features a first-of-its-kind desalination plant and will operate on 100% renewable energy by 2025.
Read More
Bechtel is delivering one of Australia’s largest infrastructure projects — a state-of-the-art airport designed to handle 10 million passengers annually.
Read More
Projects
Bechtel built the Catalina Solar Photovoltaic Generating Facility and designed the 110-megawatt alternating-current solar plant. Catalina Solar produces enough electricity to power some 35,000 homes. This project is helping make solar more cost competitive with other sources of energy and advancing solar’s use worldwide.
Catalina Solar is EDF Renewable Energy’s largest photovoltaic project and the sixth-largest photovoltaic plant in the United States. The project’s clean energy helps meet new California environmental mandates by improving overall air quality.
Catalina Solar is really two projects in one.
There’s a 50-megawatt [AC] solar plant in one configuration and a 60-megawatt [AC] plant in a completely different configuration. Each required that we develop our own innovative design and construction process.
Project Manager
In addition to the Catalina project, Bechtel has built two other solar facilities in California: Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, the world’s largest concentrating solar thermal power facility, and California Valley Solar Ranch, one of the world’s largest photovoltaic facilities. Our early experience on those two projects benefited the Catalina effort.
We built the Catalina Solar Facility on 1,100 acres (445 hectares) in the Mojave Desert. Bechtel’s project team connected and tested more than a million solar panels—some 10,000 per day.
The two configurations derived from the use of two different thin-film photovoltaic solar cells provided by the owner. One has an exterior frame and uses copper, indium, gallium, and selenide. The other sandwiches between glass a semiconductor material and a cadmium telluride layer. The separate designs required different methods of panel fabrication, transportation, and installation.
It includes a 7.2-mile (11.6-kilometer) transmission line that connects Catalina to a substation.
Built for EDF Renewable Energy, the project comprises more than 1.1 million solar photovoltaic panels.
The Catalina Solar Facility is estimated to offset 74,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually.
Catalina Solar helps owner EDF Renewable Energy meet California’s goal of getting one-third of its energy from renewable sources by 2020. Customers of San Diego Gas & Electric receive the energy under a 25-year power-purchase agreement between the utility and EDF Renewable.
Texas, U.S.
2024
Using a 100% digital execution method, Bechtel completed two utility-scale solar plants, mounting nearly 500,000 panels that will power 60,000 homes.
Arizona & Nevada, U.S.
1936
Completed in 1936, the Hoover Dam, Bechtel’s first megaproject and the world’s tallest dam at the time, still generates power for 1.3 million people today.
California, U.S.
2013
Completed in 2013, Bechtel built the California Valley Solar Ranch, a 250 MW facility that generates clean energy for 100,000 homes annually.
Notifications
