The
17-megawatt
(MW)
Gemasolar
project
is
being
built
near
Seville
by
Torresol
Energy,
a
joint
venture
owned
60%
by
Spanish
engineering
firm
Sener
and
40%
by
Masdar,
Abu
Dhabi’s
renewables
development
vehicle.
Gemasolar,
which
started
construction
in
November
2008,
will
be
the
world's
first
commercial-scale
CSP
plant
to
utilise
a
molten
salt
heat-storage
system.
The
project
will
incorporate
a
central
tower
and
2,600
heliostats,
or
sun-tracking
mirrors.
Torresol
claims
that
by
using
molten
salt
to
generate
steam,
as
opposed
to
the
synthetic
oil
used
by
existing
CSP
projects,
it
will
be
able…
