List of solar thermal power stations
This is a list of the largest facilities generating electricity through the use of solar thermal power, specifically concentrated solar power, ranging from 392 MW to 0.25 MW. .
Operational
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Under construction
Capacity MW | Name | Country | Location | Co- ordinates | Expected completion | Technology | Notes |
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200 | Noor II | Morocco | Ghassate (Ouarzazate province) | 2017/2018 | parabolic trough | [91] | |
121 | Ashalim power station 1 | Israel | Negev desert | 30°58′N 34°42′E / 30.967°N 34.700°E | 2017 | solar power tower | [92][93][94] |
110 | Cerro Dominador Solar Thermal Plant (Atacama 1) | Chile | María Elena, Antofagasta | 2018 | solar power tower | [95] | |
100 | Redstone Solar Thermal Power | South Africa | Northern Cape | 28°17′53″S 23°21′56″E / 28.29806°S 23.36556°E | 2018 | solar power tower | with 12h heat storage [96][97][98] |
100 | Xina Solar One | South Africa | Northern Cape | 28°53′40.56″S 19°35′53.52″E / 28.8946000°S 19.5982000°E | 2016 | parabolic trough | with 5h heat storage [99] |
100 | Kathu Solar Park | South Africa | Northern Cape | 27°31′59.67″S 23°8′10.56″E / 27.5332417°S 23.1362667°E | 2016 | parabolic trough | with 4.5h heat storage |
100 | Ilanga 1 | South Africa | Northern Cape (Upington) | 28°29′25.79″S 21°32′27.13″E / 28.4904972°S 21.5408694°E | 2017 | linear Fresnel technology | with 4.5h heat storage [104][105] |
100 | El Reboso 2+3 | Spain | El Puebla del Rio (Seville) | 2015 | parabolic trough | [106][107] | |
100 | Dhursar | India | 2014 | fresnel reflector | [108][109] | ||
100 | Diwakar | India | Askandra | 2014 | parabolic trough | with 3h heat storage[110] | |
100 | KVK Energy Solar Project | India | Askandra | 2014 | parabolic trough | with 4h heat storage[111] | |
100 | Noor III | Morocco | Ghassate, Ouarzazate Province | 2017/2018 | solar power tower | [91] | |
50 | Erdos Solar Power Plant | China | Hanggin Banner | 2013 | parabolic trough | [112] | |
50 | Megha Solar Plant | India | Anantapur | 2013 | parabolic trough | [113] | |
50 | CGNSED power plant | China | Delingha | 37°21′26″N 97°16′18″E / 37.35722°N 97.27167°E | sep 2016 | parabolic trough | [114] |
27.5 | Jinshawan | China | China | solar updraft tower |
Operations underway at 200 kW.[115] | ||
25 | Gujarat Solar One | India | Kutch | 23°22.233′N 70°41.988′E / 23.370550°N 70.699800°E | 2013 | parabolic trough | with 9h heat storage[116] |
17 | Stillwater | USA | Nevada | 2014 | parabolic trough | [117] | |
12 | Alba Nova 1 | France | Corsica | July, 2015 | fresnel reflector | First utility-scale solar thermal plant in France[118][119] | |
5 | Sundt Power Plant | USA | Arizona | 2014 | fresnel reflector | [120] | |
3 | Airlight Energy Ait Baha Plant | Morocco | Ait Baha | 2013 | parabolic trough | with 12h heat storage[121] | |
1.5 | Sundrop | Australia | Port Augusta | 2016 | solar power tower | [122] | |
1.5 | Tooele Army Depot | USA | Tooele | 2013 | dish | [123] | |
1.4 | THEMIS Solar Power Tower | France | Pyrénées-Orientales | 42°30′5″N 1°58′27″E / 42.50139°N 1.97417°E | solar power tower | Hybrid solar/gas power plant[124] | |
1 | e-Cube 1 | China | Hainan | 2013 | Modular Heliostat | First Modular Heliostat solar thermal plant in the world[125] | |
1 | Renovalia | Spain | Albacete | dish | [21] | ||
Announced
Capacity MW | Name | Country | Location | Coordinates | Technology | Notes |
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2000 | Ordos | China | Mongolian desert, China | solar power tower | [126] | |
1540 | Solar Energy Project | Morocco | Ain Bni Mathar, Foum Al Quad, Boujdour, Sebkhat Tah - Morocco | unknown | [127] | |
260 | Copiapó Solar Project | Chile | Atacama Desert, Chile | solar power tower PV integrated. With 14h heat storage | [128] | |
280 | Al-Abdaliya | Kuwait | ?? | parabolic trough | [129] | |
120 | Shneur Solar Power Station | Israel | Tze'elim, Israel | parabolic trough | [130] | |
100 | Solnova 2, 4–5 | Spain | Sevilla | 37°25′00″N 06°17′20″W / 37.41667°N 6.28889°W | parabolic trough with heat storage | [131] |
100 | CAP SunEdison | Chile | Atacama Desert, Chile | [132] | ||
72 | Mashhad solar-thermal power station | Iran | Mashhad, Iran | Parabolic dish with tracer system | [133] | |
60 | Mashavei Sadde solar-thermal power station | Israel | Mashavei Sadde (Negev), Israel | CSP | [134] | |
50 | AZ 20 | Spain | Sevilla | solar power tower | [131] | |
30 | Archetype SW 550 solar power plant | Italy | Passo Martino (CT), Sicily | Parabolic trough with heat storage, biomass integration and cogenerating desalination | [135][136] | |
20 | Almaden Plant | Spain | Albacete | solar power tower | [137] | |
14 | Agua Prieta II integrated solar combined cycle power station | Mexico | Agua Prieta (Sonora), Mexico | ISCC | [138][139] | |
10 | Gotasol | Spain | Gotarrendura | linear fresnel | [140] | |
0.08 | Aznalcollar TH | Spain | Sevilla | dish sterling | [131] | |
5706.08 | Overall capacity announced |
Decommissioned
- Solar One pilot plant, operational 1982-1986; converted into Solar Two, operational 1995-1999; site demolished 2009 — USA California, 10 MW, power tower design
- SES-5 — USSR, 5 MW, power tower design, water / Steam, service period 1985-1989[141]
- Maricopa Solar — USA Peoria, Arizona, 1.5 MW dish stirling SES / Tessera Solar's first commercial-scale Dish Stirling power plant. Completed January 2010,[142] decommissioned September 2011 and sold to CondiSys Solar Technology of China on April 2012.[143][144]
See also
- Concentrated solar power
- List of concentrating solar thermal power companies
- List of energy storage projects
- List of large wind farms
- List of largest power stations in the world
- List of photovoltaic power stations
- Plataforma Solar de Almería
- Renewable energy commercialization
- Renewable energy industry
- Solar power plants in the Mojave Desert
- Solar thermal energy
References
- ↑ Large Solar Energy Projects, California Government
- ↑ PG&E and BrightSource Sign Contracts for Over 1,300 MW of Solar Thermal
- ↑ World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Project at Ivanpah Achieves Commercial Operation
- ↑ Solar Electric Generating Station I
- ↑ Solar Electric Generating Station II
- ↑ Solar Electric Generating Station III
- ↑ Solar Electric Generating Station IV
- ↑ Solar Electric Generating Station V
- ↑ Solar Electric Generating Station VI
- ↑ Solar Electric Generating Station VII
- ↑ Solar Electric Generating Station VIII
- ↑ Solar Electric Generating Station IX
- ↑ csp-world.com Abengoa's Mojave 250 MW CSP plant enters commercial operation, 2 December 2014
- ↑ Abengoa: Plants under construction - United States
- ↑ CSP World: Abengoa closes $1.2 billion financing for the Mojave Solar Project and starts construction
- ↑ Abengoa Solar: Abengoa’s Solana, the US’s first large-scale solar plant with thermal energy storage system, begins commercial operation
- ↑ SolarServer: Concentrating solar power: Solana CSP plant begins commercial operation
- ↑ CSP World
- ↑ Another Huge Solar Plant Goes Online in California's Desert, Chris Clarke, REWIRE, May 5, 2014
- ↑ Abengoa Solar begins construction on Extremadura’s second solar concentrating solar power plant
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Mapa de proyectos en España
- ↑ CSP World: Abengoa closes financing and begin operation of Solaben 1 & 6 CSP plants in Spain
- ↑ Saudi Power Developer Gives Spanish Firms Work in Morocco
- ↑ King Mohammed VI of Morocco will inaugurate the first phase of solar plant “Noor I,” on Sunday in Ouarzazate, according to Minister Delegate in Charge of Environment Hakima El Haite
- ↑ Abengoa Rakes in $426M for 4 Solar Power Plants
- ↑ "Abengoa Begins Operation of 50MW Concentrating Solar Power Plant". SustainableBusiness.com News. May 6, 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-07.
- ↑ Abengoa Solar begins commercial operation of Solnova 1
- ↑ Abengoa Solar begins commercial operation of Solnova 3
- ↑ Abengoa Solar Reaches Total of 193 Megawatts Operating
- ↑ Andasol 1 has started test run
- ↑ The Construction of the Andasol Power Plants
- ↑ Solar Thermal Power Generation - A Spanish Success Story
- ↑ ACS Launches the Operation Phase of its Third Dispatchable 50 MW Thermal Power Plant in Spain, Extresol-1
- ↑ Tonopah Solar Energy
- 1 2 Abengoa: Plants under construction - South Africa
- 1 2 CSP World: Abengoa kicks off South Africa's first CSP plants construction
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- ↑ VALLE 1 and VALLE 2
- 1 2 Renewable Energy Magazine: Abengoa-E.ON joint solar thermal electric plant comes online
- 1 2 Abengoa Projects in Andalucia
- ↑ CSP World Solacor 2 comes on-line
- ↑ World’s Largest Concentrating Solar Power Plant Launches In Abu Dhabi
- ↑ Al Makahleh, Shehab (23 November 2012). "Milestone: Shams 1 set to tap solar power". Gulf News. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ↑ Here comes the sun! FPL's Next Generation Solar Energy Center to be world's first hybrid solar plant, first utility-scale solar facility in Florida
- ↑ Project 7841 : Bokpoort CSP (Concentrating Solar Power) Project, South Africa
- ↑ CSP World: Groundbreaking ceremony for Bokpoort CSP plant in South Africa has been held
- ↑ José María Barreda and Ignacio Galán open Iberdrola Renovables’ first solar termal power plant
- ↑ Acciona Status Solarpaces 2008 p.25
- ↑ ACCIONA Energía develops 900-million-euro renewables projects in the region of Extremadura
- ↑ ACCIONA opens its first CSP plant in Spain, in Extremadura
- ↑ Spain - A Solar Thermal Powerhouse
- 1 2 Concentrated Solar Power(CSP)
- ↑ Solar Millennium AG and OHL Industrial jointly take over planned Spanish 50 megawatt power plant Arenales from Fotowatio Renewable Ventures
- ↑ Acciona starts work on its €237 million CSP plant in Spain
- ↑ Solel Begins Construction on New 50 MW Solar Field in Spain using Advanced SunField LP Technology
- ↑ CSP World: Godawari Green Energy
- ↑ NREL: Godawari Solar Project
- ↑ Bloomberg: Godawari Starts Asia’s Biggest Solar-Thermal Power Plant
- ↑ Enerstar homepage
- ↑ World First in Solar Power Plant Technology
- ↑ NREL: Puerto Errado 2 Thermosolar Power Plant
- ↑ Abengoa Annual Information 2007
- 1 2 ISCC's outlook brightens with wave of projects
- ↑ First parabolic trough solar field in Egypt is under construction
- ↑ Egypt’s first solar-thermal plant goes into operation in Kuraymat
- ↑ King Mohamed VI Launches Thermo-Solar Energy Plant in Morocco
- ↑ World Bank: Nurturing Low Carbon Economy in Morocco
- ↑ Centrale Thermo-Solaire à Cycle Combine Integre d'Ain Beni Mathar
- ↑ Torresol Energy commissions Gemasolar Power Plant in Spain
- ↑ "Iran - Yazd integrated solar combined cycle power station". Helios CSP. 21 May 2011.
- ↑ MeetingChina: China’s First Solar-thermal Power Project Achieved Grid-connected Power Generation
- ↑ SUPCON: Delingha 50 MW Solar Power Plant Succeed in Producing Steam
- ↑ NREL: Supcon Solar Project
- ↑
- ↑ Ausra’s first solar thermal plant starts up
- ↑ eSolar Flips the Switch on First Solar Power Tower in U.S.
- ↑ eSolar Ushers in New Era of Solar Energy with Unveiling of Sierra Power Plant
- ↑ SciAm - First U.S. "Power Tower" Lights Up California
- ↑ The Thermodynamic Solar Project p.14-18 (dead link)
- ↑ At Priolo Enel Inaugurates the "Archimede" Power Plant
- ↑ Weekly Intelligence Brief: November 28 – December 5
- ↑ CLFR
- ↑ Solar thermal plant at the Liddell Power Station gets government support
- ↑ Solar Thermal
- ↑ Sopogy Wins Innovative Company of the Year 2008
- ↑ Aloha, MicroCSP: Sopogy 2MW solar thermal system inaugurated on big island of Hawaii
- ↑ Salt-Free Solar: CSP Tower Using Air
- ↑ Saguaro Solar Trough (dead link)
- ↑ CSP World: China's first megawatt-size power tower is complete and operational
- ↑ NREL: Augustin Fresnel 1
- 1 2 "Morocco expands solar capacity". Zawya. 2013-09-23.
- ↑ Israel to hold tender for solar energy plants
- ↑ Ministry of Energy and Water Resources: Electricity Generation
- ↑ BrightSource takes solar thermal energy home to Israel
- ↑ http://www.cspworld.org/cspworldmap/planta-solar-cerro-dominador
- ↑ "New solar plants in sunny Northern Cape". South Africa.info. 9 January 2015. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
- ↑ "Redstone Solar Thermal Power Plant". Retrieved 6 April 2015.
- ↑ "Reliably Powering South Africa with Clean Solar Energy – Day and Night." (PDF). SOLARRESERVE. Retrieved 14 April 2015.
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- ↑ Creamer, Terence. "100 MW Kathu CSP plant to be operational in 2018". Engineering News. Retrieved 2016-05-11.
- ↑ "New solar plants in sunny Northern Cape". www.southafrica.info. Retrieved 2016-05-11.
- ↑ "Kathu Solar Power Park - Nersa" (PDF).
- ↑ "The R12bn Kathu solar project: Good-bye diesel. Hello molten salt.". Retrieved 2016-08-17.
- ↑ "ILANGA CSP 1/KAROSHOEK SOLAR ONE 100 MW CSP, KAROS, UPINGTON" (PDF). Retrieved 6 April 2015.
- ↑ "Project Ilanga Solar Thermal Power Plant , Northern Cape Province Basic Assessment Phase Report: Canals and Detention Ponds" (PDF). Retrieved 6 April 2015.
- ↑ Boragis: El Reboso II
- ↑ Boragis: El Reboso III
- ↑ NREL: Dhursar
- ↑ Power Today: R-Power posts Q3 net profit RS 266 crore
- ↑ NREL: Diwakar
- ↑ NREL: KVK Energy Solar Project
- ↑ Project 6835 : Inner Mongolia Erdos 50MWp Groove Type Solar Thermal Project
- ↑ NREL: Megha Solar Plant
- ↑ http://www.spaceman.com.cn/Item/Show.asp?m=111&d=23
- ↑ China's first solar chimney plant starts operating in desert
- ↑ NREL: Gujarat Solar One
- ↑
- ↑ www.solareuromed.com
- ↑ Alba Nova 1 : le chantier de la centrale thermodynamique corse démarre
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- ↑ NREL: Airlight Energy Ait Baha Plant
- ↑ Fairfax Regional Media (24 March 2016). "Solar tower reaches new heights". The Transcontinental. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ↑ NREL: Tooele Army Depot
- ↑ Production d'Electricité par turbine à GAz et énergie SolairE
- ↑ 光热发电:新能源产业创新转型捷径
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- ↑ Solarreserve Obtiene Aprobación Ambiental para Construir una Central de Concentración Solar de 260 MW
- ↑ PV-Tech: Kuwait’s first solar park to be built for US$3.27 billion
- ↑ Project 4444 : Shneur Solar Thermal Grid-Connected Power Plant in Ze'elim
- 1 2 3 Solúcar Platform
- ↑ CAP y SunEdison firman acuerdo para construir en Chile la mayor planta solar de Latinoamérica
- ↑ Iran's biggest solar power plant
- ↑ Two Sigma and Hezzi Kogler plan to build solar thermal power station with a budget worth 300 Million NIS
- ↑ EGP realizza in Italia la prima centrale solare termodinamica
- ↑ Demonstration of innovating parabolic solar trough using an alternative heat transfer fluid producing electricity and fresh water: ARChimede Hot Energy TYPology Enhanced Water Solar 550
- ↑ Abengoa Projects in Castilla la Mancha
- ↑ Realizará CFE proyecto de campo solar
- ↑ Abengoa to build Mexico’s first hybrid solar-gas plant
- ↑ Solar Power Group: First commercial Solar-thermal power plant in Spain
- ↑ Making solar thermal power generation in India a reality – Overview of technologies, opportunities and challenges
- ↑ Wilson, Alex (April 29, 2010). "Building Green's Product of the Week". Stirling SunCatcher with "Heat Engine" Technology. Building Green. Retrieved 2011-03-03.
- ↑ Former Stirling power plant in Peoria to be sold, disassembled
- ↑ Top bid on plant is $250K
Further reading
- Clean Tech Nation: How the U.S. Can Lead in the New Global Economy (2012) by Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder
- Deploying Renewables 2011 (2011) by the International Energy Agency
- Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era (2011) by Amory Lovins
- Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (2011) by the IPCC
- Solar Energy Perspectives (2011) by the International Energy Agency
External links
- CSP World
- CSP plants and projects plotted on Google Earth
- National Renewable Energy Laboratories list of US Solar Trough Plants
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