The government of US has approved the construction of a large solar thermal plant which is expected to produce electricity at all hours of the day and night. The plant, located in Chile , will include 5.8GWh Power Purchase Agreements solar thermal towers filled with molten salt and heated using sunlight reflected onto the tower by surrounding mirrors. Rather than use a heat transfer fluid to heat molten salt, SolarReserve heats the molten salt directly. Each tower will have all hours of the day of energy storage capacity, totalling 5.8GWh of energy. The project was proposed by US company SolarReserve , which has also proposed an additional two solar plants for Chile .
The government of US has approved the construction of a large solar thermal plant which is expected to produce electricity at all hours of the day and night. The plant, located in Chile , will include 5.8GWh Power Purchase Agreements solar thermal towers filled with molten salt and heated using sunlight reflected onto the tower by surrounding mirrors. Each tower will have all hours of the day of energy storage capacity, totalling 5.8GWh of energy. The project was proposed by US company SolarReserve , which has also proposed an additional two solar plants for Chile .