Archimede's Molten Salts Show the Future is Bright for Concentrating Solar Power

[Nathanael]

Italy recently opened the world's first CSP plant which uses molten salts to capture heat.


The state-of-the-art Archimede power plant in Italy represents a paradigm shift in the development of concentrating solar power (CSP) plants.

Located in Sicily and operated by the utility ENEL (BIT:ENEL), Archimede is a 5 megawatt CSP plant that uses molten salts to capture the heat generated by the sun's energy. Most conventional CSP plants use pressurized oil to capture heat and molten salts to store heat so the plant can run during the night or on days where there is no sun.

Link: http://www.energyboom.com/solar/archimedes-molten-salts-show-future-bright-concentrating-solar-power