nima industry energy and environment founded 2008 founder sener and masdar headquarters getxo vizcaya spain area served southern europe northern africa the mideast and the southwestern united states . products concentrated solar power plants . services development of technology construction operation and maintenance for concentrated solar power plants . slogan reinventing solar power website www.torresolenergy.com torresol energy is a company dedicated to developing renewable and alternative energies focusing on concentrated solar energy . its goal is the technological development construction operation and maintenance of concentrated solar power plants . contents 1 history 2 the plants 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit torresol energy began to take shape in 2007 when sener grupo de ingenier a 1 decided to promote its own thermosolar plants . to do this it joined forces with masdar the renewable energy company of the government of abu dhabi . in 2008 torresol energy was founded controlled by sener grupo de ingenier a 60 % and masdar 40 % . 2 the company focuses its efforts on southern europe northern africa the mideast the southwestern united states and south america . in 2011 it launched the gemasolar 3 plant into commercial operation in fuentes de andaluc a seville the first solar power plant with central tower receiver technology and a molten salt storage system ; and in 2012 it commissioned two more thermosolar plants with parabolic trough technology ccp valle 1 and valle 2 4 in san jos del valle c diz . the plants edit gemasolar is the first commercial solar plant in the world with a central tower receiver and molten salt heat storage technology . it has a 19.9 mw power generating capacity which translates into an expected net production of 110 gwh year and a 15 hour storage capacity in the absence of solar radiation . the plant consists of a 185 ha solar field with a 140 m high tower receiver a power island and 2650 heliostats each 120 m2 and distributed in concentric rings around the tower . the facility is located in fuentes de andaluc a in seville spain . the inclusion of the molten salt heat storage system allows the plant to produce electricity even when there is no solar radiation . the heat collected by the salts which can reach temperatures over 500 c acts to generate steam which in turn is used to produce electric power . the excess heat accumulated during sunlight hours is stored in the molten salt tank endowing the plant with the ability to produce electric power 24 hours a day in some months . 5 in january 2012 valle 1 and valle 2 were launched in san jos del valle province of c diz spain two adjacent plants that generate power using parabolic trough technology . each of these plants has a 50 mw generation capacity with an expected net power production of 160 gwh year . the plants are located on a 510 000 m2 solar field equipped with senertrough parabolic troughs . each has a heat storage system with 7.5 hours of capacity . senertrough parabolic troughs concentrate solar radiation into a central collector tube with thermal oil circulating in it and they have high precision optical sensors which track the sun from east to west . the hot oil is used to heat water which through expansion in a steam turbine propels a power generator which sends power to the electrical grid . see also edit concentrating solar power solar power in spain solar thermal energy references edit sener.es sener and masdar announce joint venture to develop concentrating solar power plants in the sunbelt solar plant first to generate energy at night in a glowing lightbulb tower hot enough to melt salt torresol s valle 1 & valle 2 single tank thermal storage deployed spain s round the clock solar power plant external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title torresol energy & oldid 730840677 categories solar energy companiespower companies of spainbasque companiescompanies established in 2008spanish brands navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages espa olfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 21 july 2016 at 11 41 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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