Extresol Solar Power Station
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The Extresol Solar Power Station is a 150 megawatt (MW) commercial parabolic trough
solar thermal power plant, located in Torre de Miguel Sesmero
in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura
, Spain
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Extresol has a thermal storage system which absorbs part of the heat produced in the solar field during the day and stores it in molten salts.
Extresol 1 cost around 300 M€ and was inaugurated on 25 February 2009.
Parabolic trough
A parabolic trough is a type of solar thermal energy collector. It is constructed as a long parabolic mirror with a Dewar tube running its length at the focal point. Sunlight is reflected by the mirror and concentrated on the Dewar tube...
solar thermal power plant, located in Torre de Miguel Sesmero
Torre de Miguel Sesmero
Torre de Miguel Sesmero is a municipality located in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain .Currently being built in a large area of the municipality, the second solar-thermal plant biggest in Europe, so that these people contributes greatly renewable energy activities to help preserve the...
in the province of Badajoz, Extremadura
Extremadura
Extremadura is an autonomous community of western Spain whose capital city is Mérida. Its component provinces are Cáceres and Badajoz. It is bordered by Portugal to the west...
, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
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Description
The power station will be formed by three different systems: Extresol 1, Extresol 2 and Extresol 3, of 50 MW each, due to the power limitation of 50 MW per plant established by the Spanish legislation.Extresol has a thermal storage system which absorbs part of the heat produced in the solar field during the day and stores it in molten salts.
Extresol 1 cost around 300 M€ and was inaugurated on 25 February 2009.
See also
- List of solar thermal power stations
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