Plataforma Solar de Almería
The Plataforma Solar de Almería is a center for research into solar energy use . It was founded in the early 1980s and is located on the edge of the Tabernas desert in the Spanish province of Almería . Over 20,000 square meters of mirror surface are installed on the 100 hectare site. Various technologies, primarily solar thermal power plants , are tested under practical conditions.
In response to the 1973 oil crisis, the International Energy Agency initiated a project with two different power plants in the second half of the 1970s, for which Spain made the test site, today's Plataforma Solar de Almería, available. Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden and the USA were involved in the project; the project management was at the German Research and Research Institute for Aerospace - today's German Aerospace Center (DLR) . Trial operation began in 1982. In the mid-1980s, a permanent agreement was reached between Germany and Spain on cooperation in projects on the test site.
swell
- DLR News 109 (English) pp. 22-27 (PDF file; 3.83 MB)
literature
- Thomas Bührke , Roland Wengenmayr: Renewable Energy: Alternative Energy Concepts for the Future . 2nd, updated and greatly expanded edition, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim 2009, pp. 27f, ISBN 978-3-527-40973-0 .
See also
Web links
- Official website
- Impressions in words and pictures
- DLR via the Plataforma Solar de Almería
- Contribution by Deutschlandfunk on solar energy, including the Plataforma Solar de Almería
Coordinates: 37 ° 5 ′ 30 ″ N , 2 ° 21 ′ 30 ″ W.