Spain in the desert into the world's largest solar power station

News April 30, the world's largest solar power plant in Spain has been recently Andalucian desert operation. The construction of the power plant energy company Abengoa said that the solar tower power plant of 20 megawatts, can protect more than 11,000 family day-to-day use of electricity.

Solar Tower power station to the so-called concentrated solar power (CSP) technology, the use of specular reflection to the sun to the central tower to tower to reach the water temperature above 1000 ℃. Concentrated solar power technology has always been its simple, cheap and efficient and well-known advantages, compared to photovoltaic panels (PV) technology, it can make more effective use of solar energy. However, CSP technology is only applicable to weather, light-rich region.
It was learned that the most important components in power plants is a high close to the solar tower 170 meters. There are more than 1200 special mirror surface (mirror on each side equal to half the size of a volleyball court) will be the sun to the solar reflective tower, the resulting high temperature up to 1000 degrees Celsius, enough to heat the liquid water into steam. Steam-driven, which will placed in the tower of the turbine generator, thereby creating a flow of current.

This is the desert in Andalusia, Spain in the second large-scale construction of solar power station. Previously, Abengoa Energy to build here over a 10-megawatt power station. The company plans in 2013 in the area before the construction of five power plants similar. With the 20-megawatt power plant in operation, Spain's solar power plant installed capacity has now reached about 3,000 megawatts, ranking second in Europe, second only to Germany.

Source: www.windosi.com Apr. 30, 2009