The Torresol Energy Gemasolar thermasolar plant

The Torresol Energy Gemasolar thermasolar plant in Fuentes de Andalucia near Seville, southern Spain. Gemasolar is the first commercial-scale plant to apply central tower receiver and molten salt heat storage technology. The annual production of Gemasolar (110GWhe) is the equivalent of the energy generated in a conventional thermal plant burning 89,000 tons of lignite or the converted energy of 217,000 oil barrels. Therefore, the plant is expected to save more than 30,000 tonnes of CO2 emission a year.

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Photographers takes pictures among the thousands of mirrors that concentrate the sun's heat onto a central mast at the new Gemasolar solar power plant in Fuentes de Andalucia, near Seville, southern Spain

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