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Solar Tres
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Participants:
Contact:
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Duration:
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December
2002 – June 2006 |
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Funding:
| EU and
Spanish Government Grants |
| Private
Industry Investors |
| Bank
Financing |
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Objectives
After the demonstration projects Solar One and Two, Solar Tres is the
first commercial project of the Power Tower Technology. The Solar
Tres consortium of Spanish, French, Czech Republic and US companies is
promoting the 15-MW plant project with a large solar multiple of 3. The
project, which has received a subsidy of 5 million Euro from the
EC,
makes use of the Solar Two technology tested in Barstow (California), but
will be approximately three times the size. Solar Tres will make use of
several advances in the molten salt technology since Solar Two was
designed and built. These include:
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Although the turbine will be only slightly
larger than Solar Two’s, the larger heliostat field and thermal storage
system will enable the plant to operate 24 hours a day during the summer
and have an annual capacity factor of approximately 65%. |
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Solar Tres
design |
Typical Solar
Power Tower Flow Schematic |
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