The power plant consist of two towers PS10 and PS20. PS10 is surrounded by 624 heliostats huge mirro

In a patchwork of agricultural fields outside Seville, Spain, two giant 40-storey-high concrete towers rise. The obelisk-like structures are surrounded by an immense array of mirrors that reflect sunlight, bathing the top of the towers with a blinding white light. The rays of sunlight reflected by hundreds of huge mirrors are so intense that they illuminate the water vapor and dust hanging in the air creating visible beams. The otherworldly spectacle is the world s first commercially operating power station using the Sun's thermal energy to produce steam, which is used to power turbines to generate electricity.
The plant s operator, Abengoa Solar , claims that it generates 11 Megawatts (MW) of electricity without emitting a single puff of greenhouse gas. The solar power plant, currently powers 60,000 homes, but when the project is completed sometime around this year, the plant should generate enough power to service 180,000 homes. The final project, which will be able to produce over 300MW, will include a series of towers, yahoo travel directions two more of which are being built, and standard photovoltaic power plants, as well as a mixture of newer parabolic yahoo travel directions solar collectors which will be installed at a later stage.
The power plant consist of two towers PS10 and PS20. PS10 is surrounded by 624 heliostats huge mirrors that track the sun throughout the year, reflecting the sun's rays to the top of the tower where a solar receiver and a steam turbine are located. The PS20 plant is even larger with 1,255 heliostats and will produce up to 20 megawatts when fully operational in 2013. The towers together will prevent emissions of more than 600,000 tones of carbon dioxide yahoo travel directions into the atmosphere per year over its 25-year life.
The solar plant is supported by a 1.2 MW Sevilla PV plant composed of 154 silicon plate heliostats that produce electricity from solar radiation. The plant can generate 2.1GWh of clean energy annually. The remaining power plants, which will be built over the next few years, will include low- and high-concentration photovoltaic, tower thermoelectric, parabolic-trough collector and Stirling dish plants.
Solar power plant producing electricity this way are being constructed yahoo travel directions elsewhere around the world. An even larger plant, Gemasolar Thermosolar Plant, also is Seville yahoo travel directions Spain operates with 2650 heliostats and produces 19.9 MW of electricity. Gemasolar is the worlds' first solar power plant capable of delivering power round the clock.
It s a bit silly saying Abengoa claims they generate whatever amount. (Which should be in megawatthours) All solar power stations, both in Spain and now in the US have PPAs (power purchase agreements) with the utilities they provide power for and these contracts enforce that they produce the megawatt hours of generation estimated yahoo travel directions (or better) when they design the system or they pay back the utility. It is not a claim - on the contrast, the exact amount being generated hourly, monthly, annually, is data that is freely available to the operators of the grid who need to know, to lawyers on both sides, to researchers yahoo travel directions and scientists at national laboratories, and so on. It is a matter of public record, not claims. Reply Delete Replies Anonymous September 2, 2013 at 4:36 AM
Gemasolar is the worlds first solar power plant capable of delivering power round the clock. So exactly how does a solar plant produce power at Night? Reply Delete Replies Anonymous yahoo travel directions September 4, 2013 at 3:44 PM
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