{"id":49869,"date":"2024-02-05T12:48:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T12:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genesalenergy.com\/en\/?p=49869"},"modified":"2024-06-10T08:44:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T08:44:10","slug":"generator-for-a-solar-thermal-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genesalenergy.com\/en\/case-studies\/generator-for-a-solar-thermal-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"We take part in the extension of Extresol, the solar thermal plant in Badajoz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-k0dmgup1-15-f8f668af30106afdad6adbfe2e17b306\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-k0dmgup1-15-f8f668af30106afdad6adbfe2e17b306 .avia_textblock{\ncolor:#919191;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-k0dmgup1-15-f8f668af30106afdad6adbfe2e17b306 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock av_inherit_color'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2>When it came into operation in 2010, Extresol-1 was the second plant of its kind in the world.<\/h2>\n<p>A budget of 300 million euros, 50 MW of installed power and the use of the most advanced technologies. Extresol uses cylindrical-parabolic collectors within a solar radiation concentration system equipped with a sun-tracking mechanism. The task of these plants is to direct solar radiation from the reflecting surfaces onto the receiver tube and concentrate it about eighty times.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-luwecd17-368297fe215ddcf77186543dcbb8af39\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-luwecd17-368297fe215ddcf77186543dcbb8af39{\nheight:30px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-luwecd17-368297fe215ddcf77186543dcbb8af39 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-l1vxx6qz-9-5e19ec6b1852db6040e80235a8c0136c\">\n#top .av_textblock_section.av-l1vxx6qz-9-5e19ec6b1852db6040e80235a8c0136c .avia_textblock{\ncolor:#919191;\n}\n<\/style>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-l1vxx6qz-9-5e19ec6b1852db6040e80235a8c0136c '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock av_inherit_color'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h3>A generator for a solar thermal plant<\/h3>\n<p>Built on 2,25 square kilometres of land in Badajoz, Southwest Spain, Extresol currently supplies electricity equivalent to the consumption of more than 30,000 homes and avoids the emission of 149,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. Genesal Energy takes part in the expansion works of this infrastructure doing what we do best: reinforcing the security system with a solid emergency network to avoid issues and shutdowns in the event of failure in the network.<\/p>\n<h3>Customer\u2019s need<\/h3>\n<p>Our client needed to guarantee the emergency supply in the event of a failure in either of the two existing transformers and it had to be done independently. Genesal Energy installed a 935\/1010 KVA open <a href=\"https:\/\/genesalenergy.com\/en\/\">genset<\/a> placed inside one of the plant buildings, with double switching mounted on the genset itself due to the existing space limitations, and also double mains detection, operating the equipment independently for each of the transformers.<\/p>\n<h3>Technical Data<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>1000 litre specially designed fuel tank on the bedplate.<\/li>\n<li>Switchboard integrated in the bedplate, equipped with two 1600A 4P 230V motorised ATS.<\/li>\n<li>ATS Mains detection system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"project-single-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[305,500],"tags":[457,174,424,744],"pais":[307],"class_list":["post-49869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies","category-thermoelectric-power-plant","tag-emergency-power","tag-genesal-energy","tag-genset","tag-thermoelectric-plant","pais-spain"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genesalenergy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genesalenergy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genesalenergy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genesalenergy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genesalenergy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genesalenergy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genesalenergy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genesalenergy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genesalenergy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genesalenergy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49869"},{"taxonomy":"pais","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genesalenergy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pais?post=49869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}