Utility-scale Thermal Power Planned for Florida
October 4, 2007from EERE Network News
Florida Power and Light (FPL) has announced that it plans to build a 300-megawatt solar thermal power plant, which will be the state’s first commercial solar thermal power facility. The Utility will first build a 10-megawatt power plant using technology from Ausra, Inc., which employs flat arrays of Fresnel lenses to focus the sun’s heat. Most of today’s commercial solar thermal power plants use parabolic mirrors to focus the sun’s heat, a technology that’s presumably more expensive and harder to maintain than Fresnel lenses would be, but Ausra’s technology is as yet unproven commercially.
Read more about FPL’s plans and Ausra’s technology here.
