A New District Of Energy Renewable Sources
16 March 2010
Umbria, Italy A district for the production and research on energy from renewable sources is rising in Massa Martana (Umbria, Italy).

In the area an experimental solar power plant of 350 kW and a biomass cogeneration plant of 5 MW are going to be built, but the main activity of the district will come from a new manufacturing plant, Archimede Solar Energy, which will produce, under license from ENEA, receiver tubes for thermodynamic solar power plants operating with molten salts as heat transfer fluid.
Last January Nobel Prize Carlo Rubbia attended the foundation stone ceremony of this plant, which will produce more than 140000 receiver tubes per year.
Tubes will be used mainly in the solar power plants under construction in Spain, but also in Northern Africa, as the same company will be also involved in the huge project “Desertec” which aims to create a solar and wind power system plant covering a 17,000 km2 area in the Sahara Desert."
 

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