Friday, December 10, 2010

Spain Surpasses USA in installed Solar

When Spain's latest solar power plant came on-line this week it brought the county's total power generation from solar to 432Mw, surpassing that of the USA by 10Mw.
The latest Spanish plant known as La Florida, situated in Badajoz province, is a parabolic trough design covering 200Ha of land with an output of 50Mw, with a heat storage facility using moulten salt.

Spain is also reported to have around 20 other new solar power plants in an advanced stage of construction which will add a further 600Mw of capacity by the end of the year 

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