No solar panels...only mirrors.
They focused the sunlight onto a central tower where it boiled water to create steam. The panels are computer controlled to turn and continuously track the sun.
OK. Mirrors. Who is going to clean them up after they are all broken in 5 years?
The original design was called Solar 1. It was in Daggett, East of Barstow. It went online in 1982, and used water and suoerheated steam, at 950°.
This plant used molten salt as the energy storage medium.