Spain Tracks First Solar Plant With Mixed Technology
Two Spanish Solar companies - Concentrix Solar and Abengoa Solar - announced they’ve connected a 2 Megawatt solar power plant to the public utility grid under Spain’s feed-in tariff law. The plant will supply 300 MW for around 153,000 homes. The companies say the plant is the first to combine silicon flat modules and concentrator PV modules mounted on tracking systems.
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Solar energy must be combined with hi-tech power use. LED lights, microwave cooking, battery storage for household use and transportation uses can ballast the systems, Short efficient transmission lines using modern methods will improve overall efficiency. Using solar power can never support the extremely wasteful “Modern American Lifestyle” It is impossible. We must adjust consumption to fit our ability to reap the power, and that means an excruciating paradigm shift for all! Smaller, more lightable and practical homes are in order! Very much smaller refrigerators and considerably more frugal use of them an absolute! The pre-depression lifestyle enjoyed by many Americans and copied by the rest of the world must be reconsidered and adjusted scientifically for responsible survival. Now that the McMansions and all the sales hype that went with them are foreclosed upon and a new ‘great depression lifestyle’ is being given birth, great strides in “Zero running costs, Zero upkeep” dwellings for all mankind can be made. New, realistic and modernized building codes must open avenues once closed by restrictive and unrealistic codes designed to maintain the former “status quo” We will live in tents in the parks only long enough to crush nonsensical codes that restrict our progress - Solar and wind are the last chance we have to get off of the tyranny of the oil and its death grip on our society. Go solar Spain, show us how!
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Actually, Abengoa Solar is indeed Spanish, but Concentrix is a German company, a spin-off of the Fraunhofer Institute. Abengoa Solar and Concentrix have a joint-venture (Concentrix Iberia)for the development of concentrating photovoltaics. I assume this is one of the first results of their collaboration.