In May, Torresol — which is 60%-owned by Spanish engineering firm Sener and 40% by Masdar — commissioned the 19.9MW Gemasolar, the world’s first commercial-scale power-tower project to incorporate molten-salt storage.
Torresol is putting the finishing touches to the Valle 1 and 2 projects — both rated at 50MW and employing parabolic-trough technology — and it has a licence to begin selling electricity to the Spanish grid from the beginning of next year.
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