Sky Ranch Solar Energy Center (PNM / Meta / NextEra, Los Lunas, NM) needs 40 of our 60-heliostat units with long-term thermal storage to replace expensive lithium battery backup costing $60 million a year.
| Metric | Sky Ranch Solar Farm, NM (190 MW) | 24 Hour SOLAR |
|---|---|---|
| 24/7 firm power | No — daytime + 4 hrs only | Yes — 7 to 22 days |
| Peak burst power | 190 MW (sun hours only) | 225 MW (any time, on demand) |
| Process heat output | Zero | 614 GWh/yr thermal |
| Water consumption | Moderate (panel washing) | Near-zero |
We're not competing in a category — we're defining one.
Has NO storage, no night output, and only 22% spectrum utilization.
Addresses thermal storage and dispatch, they require 50MW+ minimum, $1 billion+ capital, and a central-receiver heat-transfer loop that is dysfunctional.
It is only active in academic research — dichroic integration at the individual-heliostat level does not exist in any commercial product today.
Can be replaced — it's always-on but dirty and fuel-dependent.
A 60 Heliostat tri-generation, spectral-splitting, thermally-dispatchable solar system — combining all four attributes that today exist only separately, across four different product categories.