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Andasol 1 cost around €300 million (US$380 million) to build. [12] Thermal energy storage costs roughly US$50 per kWh of capacity (150 lbs of salt per kWh at a storage temperature of 400 °C), according to Greg Glatzmaier of the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), totaling about 13% of Andasol's initial cost. [12]
Completed: Andasol 1 (2008), Andasol 2 (2009), Andasol 3 (2011). Each equipped with a 7.5 hour thermal energy storage. [38] [39] Extresol Solar Power Station Spain: Torre de Miguel Sesmero: 150 2010: Parabolic trough 7.5
Andasol is the first parabolic trough power plant in Europe and to date the largest solar power plant in the world. Meanwhile, Solar Millennium has sold all of its own shares in Andasol 1 and Andasol 2 to other consortia. Andasol 3 is financed jointly by Solar Millennium, Stadtwerke München GmbH, Innogy, RheinEnergie and Ferrostaal.
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The Andasol 1 power plant went online in November 2008, and has a thermal storage system which absorbs part of the heat produced in the solar field during the day. This heat is then stored in a molten salt mixture and used to generate electricity during the night, or when the sky is overcast.
The 500-megawatt (MW) SCE/SES plant would extract about 2.75% of the radiation (1 kW/m 2; see Solar power for a discussion) that falls on its 4,500 acres (18.2 km 2). [73] For the 50 MW AndaSol Power Plant [74] that is being built in Spain (total area 1.95 km 2; ¾ sq. mi.) gross conversion efficiency comes out at 2.6%.
Andasol is the first parabolic trough power plant in Europe, and Andasol 1 went online in March 2009. Because of the high altitude (1,100 m) and the semi-arid climate, the site has exceptionally high annual direct insolation of 2,200 kWh/m 2 per year.
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Golden, Colorado, 1977 Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC (since 2008) [11] 2,685 US$393,000,000 Office of Environmental Management Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) Aiken, South Carolina, 1952 [a] Battelle Savannah River Alliance (Since 2021) [13] 900 US$400,000,000 [14]