Spanish Company to Build
World's Biggest Solar Plant in Arizona. By
Inmaculada G. Mardones, El Pais (Spain),
February 22, 2008.
"The Andalusian company Abengoa
Solar will build, 100 kilometers from
Pheonix, Arizona, the biggest solar energy generating plant in the world with a
capacity of 280 megawatts -- equivalent to that of a conventional power station.
Electricity will be generated by parabolic cylinders that concentrate solar
radiation to a tube through which flows fluid producing steam, which moves a
conventional turbine. Another Spanish company, Acciona, has built a solar plant
in the U.S. state of Nevada with a capacity of over 60 megawatts. In Spain
similar plants are being built with no more than 50-megawatt capacity to take
advantage of premiums paid for this type of renewable energy... The Ministry of
Industry made public on Thursday a communication obligating producers of
electricity to give their clients 'trustworthy and homogeneous information about
the energy they consume, providing precise data on the breakdown of energy
sources used to generate electricity they have consumed and the environmental
impact its production has caused.'" Translated by Mark Miller.