The view from the road in from Sanlucar la Mayor
The towers are quite dramatic. the 50 MW of troughs, also at the site? can't even see them.
PS 20 on left, PS 10 on right
View over the sunflowers. Get it?
Tons of R&D at the sight, including 80 kW of Stirling dishes
heliostats
6 hours of molten salt storage, my friends.
These parabolic troughs are going to be used to preheat the tower
We were there at solar noon--2 pm or so in the afternoon--as the trough was pointing straight up
fields of heliostats
the beasts at work. 600 degrees C.
Towers currently have capability of a half hour of thermal storage
mobile carwash at work
each heliostat gets a cleaning approx every 10 days
2x PV concentrator field in the foreground
dual axis tracking, 2 X concentration
50 MW of parabolic trough to be commissioned in November
building in the middle is the assembly factory. a new section of trough every half hour
poor troughs. they are like the ugly stepchild--not as photogenic, don't get the same attention, just do the work.
it's like they are praying to their solar god.
ps 20 in the foreground, ps 10 in the rear
