Sicily to build world's first solar power plant

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Sicily to build world's first solar power plant

By Peter Popham
Published: 28 March 2007

The world's first solar power plant, which will yoke the power of the
sun with gas, will go on stream on the sunny east coast of Sicily by
2009, if a deal signed by the Italian government this week goes
according to plan.

The project is named Archimedes, after the famous resident of the
nearby city of Syracuse. The existing gas-fired power plant on the
site will be augmented by Archimedes, which should produce 5 megawatts
of electricity, enough for 4,500 families.

Archimedes' trump card is the fact that it will produce solar energy
24 hours a day, not just when the sun is shining. The plant's battery
of parabolic mirrors will focus the sun's rays on pipes, through which
runs a saline liquid that can store heat up to 550C and retain it for
hours.

The addition of the solar plant to the power station should
significantly reduce the amount of gas burnt at the plant and cut
carbon dioxide emissions by 7,300 tonnes.

"With Archimedes we intend to combine the best technology of today
with that of tomorrow," said Sandro Fontecedro, director of the energy
division of Enel, the formerly state-owned electricity company behind
the project.

Archimedes is budgeted at €40m (£27m). "We are moving from the
laboratory to the industrial phase," said Luigi Paganetto, the
president of Enea, an agency specialising in alternative energy.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2398895.ece

Sicily to build world's first solar power plant

By Peter Popham
Published: 28 March 2007

The world's first solar power plant, which will yoke the power of the
sun with gas, will go on stream on the sunny east coast of Sicily by
2009, if a deal signed by the Italian government this week goes
according to plan.

The project is named Archimedes, after the famous resident of the
nearby city of Syracuse. The existing gas-fired power plant on the
site will be augmented by Archimedes, which should produce 5 megawatts
of electricity, enough for 4,500 families.

Archimedes' trump card is the fact that it will produce solar energy
24 hours a day, not just when the sun is shining. The plant's battery
of parabolic mirrors will focus the sun's rays on pipes, through which
runs a saline liquid that can store heat up to 550C and retain it for
hours.

The addition of the solar plant to the power station should
significantly reduce the amount of gas burnt at the plant and cut
carbon dioxide emissions by 7,300 tonnes.

"With Archimedes we intend to combine the best technology of today
with that of tomorrow," said Sandro Fontecedro, director of the energy
division of Enel, the formerly state-owned electricity company behind
the project.

Archimedes is budgeted at ?40m (£27m). "We are moving from the
laboratory to the industrial phase," said Luigi Paganetto, the
president of Enea, an agency specialising in alternative energy.