List of solar thermal power stations
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This is a list of solar thermal power stations. These include the 354 megawatt (MW) Solar Energy Generating Systems power installation in the USA, Solana Generating Station (USA, 280 MW) and Solaben Solar Power Station (Spain, 200 MW). The 392 MW Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, located in California's Mojave Desert, is the world’s largest solar thermal power plant project currently in operation. There are plans to build many other large solar thermal plants.
Operational
Solar thermal power stations
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Part of the 354 MW SEGS solar complex in San Bernardino, California, United States.
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The recent Ivanpah solar project in San Bernardino, California, United States.
Under construction
MW | Name | Country | Location | Co- ordinates |
Expected completion |
Technology | Notes |
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160 | Ouarzazate solar power station | Morocco | Ouarzazate | 2015 | parabolic trough | with 3h heat storage[88] | |
121 | Ashalim power station 1 | Israel | Negev desert | 30°58′N 34°42′E / 30.967°N 34.700°E | 2017 | solar power tower | [89][90][91] |
110 | Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project | USA | Nye County, Nevada | 38°14′N 117°22′W / 38.233°N 117.367°W | 2014 | solar power tower | with 10h heat storage; commercial operation by mid-2015[92] |
110 | Cerro Dominador Solar Thermal Plant (Atacama 1) | Chile | Maria Elena, Antofagasta | 2018 | solar power tower | [93] | |
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 [94][95][96] |
100 | Xina CSP South Africa | 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 [97] |
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 [98][99] |
100 | El Reboso 2+3 | Spain | El Puebla del Rio (Seville) | 2015 | parabolic trough | [100][101] | |
100 | Dhursar | India | 2014 | fresnel reflector | [102][103] | ||
100 | Diwakar | India | Askandra | 2014 | parabolic trough | with 3h heat storage[104] | |
100 | KVK Energy Solar Project | India | Askandra | 2014 | parabolic trough | with 4h heat storage[105] | |
50 | Arenales PS | Spain | Moron de la Frontera (Seville) | 2013 | parabolic trough | [21][50][106] | |
50 | Casablanca | Spain | Casablanca | 2013 | parabolic trough | [21] | |
50 | Erdos Solar Power Plant | China | Hanggin Banner | 2013 | parabolic trough | [107] | |
50 | Khi Solar One | South Africa | Upington | 28°33′0.36″S 21°5′5.28″E / 28.5501000°S 21.0848000°E | 2015 | power tower | with 2h heat storage[32][33] |
50 | Megha Solar Plant | India | Anantapur | 2013 | parabolic trough | [108] | |
50 | Bokpoort | South Africa | Groblershoop | 28°43′26.96″S 21°59′34.88″E / 28.7241556°S 21.9930222°E | 2015 | parabolic trough | with 9h heat storage[109][110] |
44 | Kogan Creek Solar Boost | Australia | Chinchilla | 2015 | fresnel reflector | [111] | |
27.5 | Jinshawan | China | China | solar updraft tower |
Operations underway at 200 kW.[112] | ||
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[113] |
17 | Stillwater | USA | Nevada | 2014 | parabolic trough | [114] | |
12 | Alba Nova 1 | France | Corsica | July, 2015 | fresnel reflector | First utility-scale solar thermal plant in France[115][116] | |
5 | Sundt Power Plant | USA | Arizona | 2014 | fresnel reflector | [117] | |
3 | Airlight Energy Ait Baha Plant | Morocco | Ait Baha | 2013 | parabolic trough | with 12h heat storage[118] | |
1.5 | Tooele Army Depot | USA | Tooele | 2013 | dish | [119] | |
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[120] | |
1 | e-Cube 1 | China | Hainan | 2013 | Modular Heliostat | First Modular Heliostat solar thermal plant in the world[121] | |
1 | Renovalia | Spain | Albacete | dish | [21] |
Announced
Announced – Spain
MW | Name | Location | Coordinates | Technology | Notes |
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200 | Andasol 4–7 | Granada | parabolic trough with heat storage | [30] | |
100 | Solnova 2, 4–5 | Sevilla | 37°25′00″N 06°17′20″W / 37.41667°N 6.28889°W | parabolic trough with heat storage | [122] |
50 | Ibersol Badajoz | Fuente de Cantos | parabolic trough | [123] | |
50 | Ibersol Valdecaballeros 1–2 | Valdecaballeros | parabolic trough | [123] | |
50 | Ibersol Sevilla | Aznalcollar | parabolic trough | [123] | |
50 | Ibersol Almería | Tabernas | parabolic trough | [123] | |
50 | Ibersol Albacete | Almansa | parabolic trough | [123] | |
50 | Ibersol Murcia | Lorca | parabolic trough | [123] | |
50 | Ibersol Zamora | Cubillos | parabolic trough | [123] | |
100 | Aste 3, 4 | Alcázar de San Juan (Ciudad Real) |
parabolic trough | [50] | |
50 | Astexol 1 | Extremadura | parabolic trough | [50] | |
50 | AZ 20 | Sevilla | solar power tower | [122] | |
50 | Alcázar Solar Thermal Power Project | Alcázar de San Juan | solar power tower | [124] | |
20 | Almaden Plant | Albacete | solar power tower | [125] | |
10 | Gotasol | Gotarrendura | linear fresnel | [126] | |
0.08 | Aznalcollar TH | Sevilla | dish sterling | [122] | |
930.08 | Overall capacity announced in Spain |
Announced – other countries
Capacity MW | Name | Country | Location | Coordinates | Technology | Notes |
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2000 | Ordos | China | Mongolian desert, China | solar power tower | [127] | |
1540 | Solar Energy Project | Morocco | Ain Beni Mathar, Foum Al Quad, Boujdour, Sebkhat Tah - Morocco | unknown | [128] | |
200 | Noor II CSP Project | Morocco | Ouarzazate - Morocco | parabolic trough | [129] | |
100 | Noor III CSP Project | Morocco | Ouarzazate - Morocco | solar power tower | [129] | |
280 | Al-Abdaliya | Kuwait | ?? | parabolic trough | [130] | |
120 | Shneur Solar Power Station | Israel | Tze'elim, Israel | parabolic trough | [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] | |
30 | Archetype SW 550 solar power plant | Italy | Passo Martino(CT), Sicily | Parabolic trough with heat storage, biomass integration and cogenerating desalination | [135][136] | |
14 | Agua Prieta II integrated solar combined cycle power station | Mexico | Agua Prieta(Sonora), Mexico | ISCC | [137][138] | |
5616.00 | Overall capacity announced in other countries |
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[139]
- Maricopa Solar — USA Peoria, Arizona, 1.5 MW dish stirling SES / Tessera Solar's first commercial-scale Dish Stirling power plant. Completed January 2010,[140] decommissioned September 2011 and sold to CondiSys Solar Technology of China on April 2012.[141][142]
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
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag Mapa de proyectos en España
- ^ CSP World: Abengoa closes financing and begin operation of Solaben 1 & 6 CSP plants in Spain
- ^ 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
- ^ a b 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
- ^ a b c Abengoa: Plants under construction - South Africa
- ^ a b c CSP World: Abengoa kicks off South Africa's first CSP plants construction
- ^ [www.qasolar.com/ "QA Solar :: Our plants :: Operating facilities :: South Africa"]. QA Solar. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
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value (help) - ^ "Abengoa Solar :: Our plants :: Operating facilities :: South Africa". Abengoa Solar. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
- ^ VALLE 1 and VALLE 2
- ^ a b Renewable Energy Magazine: Abengoa-E.ON joint solar thermal electric plant comes online
- ^ a b 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
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c d Concentrated Solar Power(CSP)
- ^ 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
- ^ a b 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
- ^ [1]
- ^ 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
- ^ NAFSTE: Beijing Badaling CSP Tower Plant Succeeded in its first power generation test
- ^ NREL: Beijing Badaling Solar Tower
- ^ Saguaro Solar Trough (dead link)
- ^ CSP World: China's first megawatt-size power tower is complete and operational
- ^ NREL: Augustin Fresnel 1
- ^ Saudi Power Developer Gives Spanish Firms Work in Morocco
- ^ Israel to hold tender for solar energy plants
- ^ Ministry of Energy and Water Resources: Electricity Generation
- ^ BrightSource takes solar thermal energy home to Israel
- ^ Tonopah Solar Energy
- ^ 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.
- ^ "NERSA XiNa Solar One license application – public hearing Kimberley, 18 February 2014" (PDF). Retrieved 6 April 2015.
- ^ "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
- ^ Solar Millennium AG and OHL Industrial jointly take over planned Spanish 50 megawatt power plant Arenales from Fotowatio Renewable Ventures
- ^ Project 6835 : Inner Mongolia Erdos 50MWp Groove Type Solar Thermal Project
- ^ NREL: Megha Solar Plant
- ^ Project 7841 : Bokpoort CSP (Concentrating Solar Power) Project, South Africa
- ^ CSP World: Groundbreaking ceremony for Bokpoort CSP plant in South Africa has been held
- ^ NREL: Kogan Creek Solar Boost
- ^ China's first solar chimney plant starts operating in desert
- ^ NREL: Gujarat Solar One
- ^ [2]
- ^ www.solareuromed.com
- ^ Alba Nova 1 : le chantier de la centrale thermodynamique corse démarre
- ^ [3]
- ^ NREL: Airlight Energy Ait Baha Plant
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c Solúcar Platform
- ^ a b c d e f g Madrid, Spain: Iberdrola Proceeds with Nine Solar Thermal Electric Plants
- ^ "SolarReserve and Preneal Receive Environmental Permit for 50 Megawatt Solar Energy Project in Spain". Business Wire. November 17, 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-18.
- ^ Abengoa Projects in Castilla la Mancha
- ^ Solar Power Group: First commercial Solar-thermal power plant in Spain
- ^ Woody, Todd (2010-01-09). "Pasadena's ESolar lands 2,000-megawatt deal in China". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Update 1- Morocco to invite bids for solar station in Feb". Reuters. 2010-01-06.
- ^ a b "Morocco expands solar capacity". Zawya. 2013-09-23.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- ^ Realizará CFE proyecto de campo solar
- ^ Abengoa to build Mexico’s first hybrid solar-gas plant
- ^ 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