To do this, the company works with new technologies for each new project, with a view to turn this energy into a viable, economically competitive and environmentally-friendly alternative with respect to traditional energies.

The objective of Torresol Energy is to achieve excellence in operating and maintaining its solar thermal power plants, thus contributing to the development and improvements of competitiveness in this technology.

Gemasolar, the world’s first plant that works on a commercial scale with a central tower receiver and a thermal storage system, located in Fuentes de Andalucía (Seville), running at a power of 17 MWe
Valle 1 and Valle 2, two plants that run at 50 MW each, with SENERtrough^® parabolic trough collectors, located in San José del Valle (Cádiz).

All of Torresol Energy’s plants are equipped with heat storage, which allows them to deliver electricity even during prolonged absences of radiation (nights), giving their product (kWh from a renewable origin) a unique quality in the sector, in guaranteeing programmable and manageable energy.

The technological advances of Torresol Energy’s innovative plants have been developed by SENER, the leading company in the solar thermoelectric energy sector, both in terms of the number of projects in its portfolio and for its cutting edge technological solutions.

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