Solar Power plant opened today after many set backs

[d from birmingham]

Originally Posted by OpenD

I'm pretty sure they've got all that worked out by now. Over the last 7 years or so more than 50 big solar collector installations have been built in Spain. This just happens to be the first using this particular molten salt energy storage system.

Molten salt energy storage is not new. This is not the first facility to use molten salt. Andasol solar power station back in 2009 was the first full scale solar thermal power plant to use it. Gemasolar was launched back in 2011 two years after Andasol came online.

Solar One developed the concept of solar thermal and Solar Two molten salt storage. Solar One and Solar Two were US DOE solar power plant test projects. Solar One went online back in 1981. It was then converted to Solar Two in 1995 with a molten salt storage system that was able to provide power three hours after the sun had set.

In fact the original name of Gemasolar Power Plant was Solar Tres Power Tower. Meaning Solar Three Power Tower in English.

[d from birmingham]

The US does have a solar power plant that can store energy to distribute after the sun goes down for about six hours after the sun sets. It became operational back in 2013.

U.S. flips switch on massive solar power array that also stores electricity - Computerworld

[MJ7]

Originally Posted by d from birmingham

The US does have a solar power plant that can store energy to distribute after the sun goes down for about six hours after the sun sets. It became operational back in 2013.

U.S. flips switch on massive solar power array that also stores electricity - Computerworld

Cool, that's just like Kramer Junction in Cali. minus the salt stores.