Solar plant operates at night

The world's first solar power plant that could operate at night was operating. This unique Spanish thermal power plant dares to challenge the cloudy, rainy days.

The Gemasolar solar power plant, located near the city of Seville (Spain), is built in a tower shape with many large capacity bulbs on the top, around 2,600 mirrors, each of which is about 120 square meters. spread over an area of ​​195 hectares.

Image of Gemasolar, Spain solar plant

The mechanism of this plant is to use reflective mirrors to concentrate heat energy into two salt tanks. The thermal energy of 900 degrees C will melt salt, boil water around two salt pools, creating steam to help the turbines spin.

One year Gemasolar factory works 6,400 hours, compared to another solar plant that can only work from 1,000 to 1,200 hours. It can power 30,000 homes in Spain, while reducing carbon dioxide emissions to 30,000 tons per year.

This project has an investment of about 200 million euros. Participating in the design and construction has contributed to the Spanish, French, Czech and US firms, especially the UAE energy company - which plans to build the world's largest solar power plant in Abu. -Dhabi.

The cost of investing in the factory is very high but after paying all the money to the bank - in 18 years - it will become a giant "money printer" .