First molten salt solar thermal plant debuts in Italy

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Longer heat retention of salts means plant can operate overnight and in intermittent sunshine

What is claimed to be the world’s first solar thermal concentration plant to use molten salt as the heat transfer fluid has been opened by Italian energy company Enel in Sicily. The 5MW Archimede plant...

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