Design
- Some Concentrating Solar Power Towers are air-cooled instead of water-cooled, to avoid using limited desert water
- Flat glass is used instead of the more expensive curved glass
- Thermal storage to store the heat in molten salt containers to continue producing electricity while the sun is not shining
- Steam is heated to 500 °C to drive turbines that are coupled to generators which produce electricity
- Control systems to supervise and control all the plant activity including the heliostat array positions, alarms, other data acquisition and communication.
Generally, installations use from 150 hectares (1,500,000 m2) to 320 hectares (3,200,000 m2).
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