Torresol Energy Constructing CSP Stations

[Kristy]

Torresol Energy, 60% owned by SENER, has begun work on the construction of two new concentrating solar power (CSP) plants located in Cadiz, in the town of San José del Valle.

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[baglady]

The two new plants, VALLE 1 and VALLE 2, are added to the already started GEMASOLAR project, whose construction is ongoing in Fuentes de Andalucía, Seville (Spain). The work completed to date includes the accesses to the plant and adapting the terrain of the 192 hectares of the solar field in which the 2,600 heliostats in charge of reflecting solar radiation and concentrating it on the receiver located at the top of the tower will be installed. Construction of the concrete tower began in April and it has already reached a height of 70 metres, in an uninterrupted construction process using the sliding formwork technique. In addition, 30 km of the 86 km of internal roadways to access and give maintenance to the heliostats have been built, and construction work has started on the power island: an area located next to the tower, which will contain the molten-salt thermal storage systems of the plant, the steam-generation system, the power turbine and the other auxiliary elements required for the operation of the facility. GEMASOLAR is scheduled for completion in early 2011.

[greenmachine]

Torresol Energy, a company founded in March 2008, is 60%-owned by SENER and 40% by Masdar (Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company -ADFEC-, company for the development of renewable energies launched by the investment company owned by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, MUBADALA Development Company). The new company was created to become a world leader in the sector, and with the mission to promote the development and operation of an average of two CSP plants a year all over the world, particularly in the so-called 'solar belt': the South of Europe, the north of Africa, the Middle East and the south west of the USA. According to these perspectives, the installed base will be about 320 MW by the end of 2013 and must reach 1,000 MW in 10 years. At the same time, every new Torresol Energy project will introduce and test new technologies in order to make Concentration Solar Power an economically competitive option, based on profitable and efficient plants, and thus make it a real, viable, ecological and sustainable alternative to traditional energy.