List of solar thermal power stations
- This is a list of power stations that are based on Solar thermal energy technology.
- Most of the CSP plants of the world can be found on Google Earth : kmz file
Operational
- Solar Energy Generating Systems, USA Mojave desert California, total of 354MW, parabolic trough design
- Nevada Solar One, USA Nevada, 64MW, parabolic trough design
- Liddell Power Station, Australia, 95MW heat, 35MW electrical equivalent as steam input for convential power station, Fresnel reflector design [1]
- PS10 solar power tower, Spain Seville, 11MW, power tower design
Under construction
- Andasol 1 solar power station, Spain, 50MW with heat storage, parabolic trough design
- Andasol 2 solar power station, Spain, 50MW with heat storage, parabolic trough design
- Solar Tres Power Tower, Spain, 15MW with heat storage, power tower design
Announced
- Mojave Solar Park, USA California, 553MW, parabolic trough design[2]
- Pisgah, USA California near Pisgah north of I-40, 500MW, dish design [3]
- Ivanpah Solar, USA California, 400MW, power tower design [4]
- Unnamed, USA Florida, 300MW, Fresnel reflector design [5]
- Imperial Valley, USA California, 300MW, dish design [6]
- Carrizo Energy Solar Farm, USA California near San Luis Obispo, 177MW, Fresnel reflector design [7]
- Uppington, South Africa, 100MW, power tower design [8]
- Yazd Plant, Iran, 67MW steam input for hybrid gas plant, technology unknown. [9]
- Barswtow, USA California, 59MW with heat storage and back-up, parabolic trough design [10]
- Victorville 2 Hybrid Power Project, 50MW steam input for hybrid gas plant, parabolic trough design [11]
- Kuraymat Plant, Egypt, 40MW steam input for a gas powered plant, parabolic trough design [12][13]
- Beni Mathar Plant, Morocco, 30MW steam input for a gas powered plant, technology unknown [14]
- Hassi R'mel, Algeria, 25MW steam input for gas powered plant, parabolic trough design [15]
- Cloncurry solar power station, Australia, 10MW with heat storage, power tower design [16]
Note, that for the dish announcements a test site with 40 dishes producing 1MW would be constructed near Pisgah in 2007. [17] Actual construction or progress of this test site could not be found on the internet or obtained by other means. [18]
The Victorville 2 Hybrid Power Project, Ivanpah Solar and Carrizo Energy Solar Farm has reached the stage of an Application for Certification (AFC) with the California Energy Commission. [11]
Out of commission
- Solar One, USA California, 10MW, power tower design
- Themis (under rehabilitation), France, 2MW, power tower design
See also
- List of large wind farms
- Photovoltaic power stations
- Solar power plants in the Mojave Desert
- Solar thermal energy
References
- ^ CLFR
- ^ Israeli company to build largest solar park in world in US Ynetnews, 26 July 2007.
- ^ World's largest solar installation to use Stirling engine technology
- ^ BrightSourceEnergy
- ^ FPL unveils plans for solar plant
- ^ Stirling Energy Systems Signs New Contract for 300 MW
- ^ PG&E links with Ausra for 177 megawatts of solar thermal power
- ^ 100 MW Solar Thermal Electric Project in South Africa
- ^ Iran’s first solar power plant to become operational in 2010
- ^ Solar thermal electric hybrid power plant for barstow
- ^ a b Large Solar Energy Projects, California Government
- ^ Iberdrola to build 150MW Egyptian thermal solar plant
- ^ Solar Millennium Tochter Flagsol erhält Auftrag für erstes Parabolrinnen-Kraftwerk Ägyptens
- ^ Morocco to get 500MW solar thermal power station
- ^ Abener Signs Contract for Solar Thermal Electric - Combined Cycle Hybrid Plant, Solarbuzz.com
- ^ Cloncurry to run on solar alone
- ^ Questions linger over Stirling's technology as deadline looms
- ^ JUICE: Stirling Takes the Fifth