Comments on: Spain Opens Largest Solar Power Plant in World, Passes US as Largest Solar Power Generator http://cleantechnica.com/2010/07/17/spain-opens-largest-solar-power-plant-in-world-passes-us-as-largest-solar-power-generator/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 06:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Pastor CHUCKS K.Damiro http://cleantechnica.com/2010/07/17/spain-opens-largest-solar-power-plant-in-world-passes-us-as-largest-solar-power-generator/#comment-39761 Mon, 25 Oct 2010 15:59:16 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=12971#comment-39761 Please I am happy with this development, I will like to have the address or contact of the company that constructed the solar power generating plant in Spain. +2348033325488.will joine you on face book too. I want my country to be invlove in clean energy.

]]> By: Rif http://cleantechnica.com/2010/07/17/spain-opens-largest-solar-power-plant-in-world-passes-us-as-largest-solar-power-generator/#comment-9971 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 04:56:36 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=12971#comment-9971 I think it is best to keep solar thermal power (CSP) apart from solar PV because they are very different technologies, even though they both run on sunlight.

La Florida solar thermal plant is not especially big, it has the standard Spanish size of 50MW because feed in tariff are best paid up to this size. In some cases (e.g. Andasol) multiple identical plants are built next to each other, each with 50MW.

US used to be an early mover in CSP with lots of development up to 1990. Since then practically nothing has happend. Looking forward to see US getting back on track for CSP development.

Wikipedia has a list of CSP plants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_thermal_power_stations

]]> By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2010/07/17/spain-opens-largest-solar-power-plant-in-world-passes-us-as-largest-solar-power-generator/#comment-9970 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:25:48 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=12971#comment-9970 yes, perhaps that is the issue (that it is only counting solar thermal power generation). i am familiar with those stats for total PV capacity that you mention above. still, not finding figures to back this up anywhere

]]> By: rob baxter http://cleantechnica.com/2010/07/17/spain-opens-largest-solar-power-plant-in-world-passes-us-as-largest-solar-power-generator/#comment-9969 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:19:21 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=12971#comment-9969 The information is clearly wrong.

The “output” they are referring to seems to be only solar thermal power generation and does not include photovoltaic (PV).

Germany is way ahead of both the US and Spain with over 9,000 MW of PV alone. The US is fourth behind Spain, Germany and Japan.

]]> By: Zachary Shahan http://cleantechnica.com/2010/07/17/spain-opens-largest-solar-power-plant-in-world-passes-us-as-largest-solar-power-generator/#comment-9968 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:09:53 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=12971#comment-9968 i looked around a bit, too. curious about this. the figure came directly from the Guardian piece, which every other site around the web seemed to also be using as a reference. i’m not sure where the Guardian got their figures.

]]> By: Rick Row http://cleantechnica.com/2010/07/17/spain-opens-largest-solar-power-plant-in-world-passes-us-as-largest-solar-power-generator/#comment-9967 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:06:23 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=12971#comment-9967 Thanks for your article. Where did you find the statistics on total solar power generated and how reliable are they? With all the distributed PV, I’ve been unable to find reliable statistics. From your article, it appears that Germany has a poorer capacity factor than Spain or the U.S., which is not a surprise. It would be useful to know what the capacity factors are in practice.

]]> By: Mary Robenson http://cleantechnica.com/2010/07/17/spain-opens-largest-solar-power-plant-in-world-passes-us-as-largest-solar-power-generator/#comment-9966 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:47:52 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=12971#comment-9966 Its really a great news. I think theres no way except the solar energy for the upcoming energy crisis, specially in the third world.

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