{"id":6153,"date":"2012-02-16T06:09:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T11:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/?p=6153"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:46:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:46:13","slug":"video-concentrated-solar-thermal-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/video-concentrated-solar-thermal-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Concentrated Solar Thermal Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5510\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5510\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gemasolar-plant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gemasolar-plant-300x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"gemasolar-plant\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gemasolar-plant-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/gemasolar-plant.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Via Torresol Energy<\/figcaption><\/figure><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/gemasolar-the-24-hour-solar-power-plant\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gemasolar<\/a> near Seville in the South of Spain is the first Concentrated Solar Thermal Power with molten salt storage (CSP+) plant that can produce solar energy 24 hours a day.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It generates 20 MW or enough electricity to supply 25,000 homes. However, bigger plants of this kind are being planned in other parts of the world, such as the Middle East and the U.S., plants that can produce 100 MW and even 150 MW.<\/p>\n<p>The video below, made by Earthrise, takes the viewer inside the plant and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fascinating to find out more about how these clean power plants operate. Is this the future of solar? Chip in through the comments box below.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LMWIgwvbrcM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You should follow us <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/energyrefuge\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/new-solar-collector-heralds-new-era-in-csp\/\" title=\"New Solar Collector Heralds New Era in CSP\">New Solar Collector Heralds New Era in CSP<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/gemasolar-the-24-hour-solar-power-plant\/\" title=\"Gemasolar,  the 24-Hour Solar Power Plant\">Gemasolar,  the 24-Hour Solar Power Plant<\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gemasolar near Seville in the South of Spain is the first Concentrated Solar Thermal Power with molten salt storage (CSP+) plant that can produce solar energy 24 hours a day. Related Posts:New Solar Collector Heralds New Era in CSPGemasolar, the 24-Hour Solar Power Plant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1380,1379,1104],"class_list":["post-6153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","tag-concentrated-solar-power","tag-csp","tag-gemasolar"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9099,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions\/9099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}