Gemasolar is able to produce 80 GWh per year, generate enough power to supply 27,500 households and reduce by more than 28,000 tons per year the CO2 emissions.
Gemasolar is located in Fuentes de Andalucía municipality, which is 60 kilometres East from Seville. The power plant is placed in La Monclova, with a 5.500 hectares area and it is nearby to Obulcula archaeological site and Cañada Real del Marques area. The estate belongs a castle, in which a wide range of events take place, olive groves and a related mill, beef and goat cattle, natural forest areas and a little reservoir. The typical Campiña landscape, with low slopes and dry land agriculture, makes the power plant clearly visible both to solar panels reflections as, above all, the 140 meters tower. The circular plant morphology sets a curious parallelism with the town one –Fuentes-, which is at South placed.
It is a thermosolar power plant located in the South of Spain. The installed capacity is 19.9 MW with a net production of 80 GWh per year. The power plant is provided with a solar field with 2.650 heliostats, which covers a 195 hectares area. It is the first commercial plant in the world to use the high temperature tower receiver technology together with molten salt thermal storage of very long duration. Its molten salt storage allows 15-hour electrical generation autonomy, without solar light. By this way, it supplies from clean and safe energy to 27.500 households and reduces by more than 28,000 tons per year the CO2 emissions.
