Annual Report 2006 - Plataforma Solar de Almería

ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS OF SOLAR ENERGY
4.5.3 Projects in Collaboration with Companies Building
Solar Power Plants
Since 2005, as a result of the socio-political situation in the Spanish power
market, the number of solar power plant projects has begun to grow considerably
in Spain. To the extent that increased activity in this sector requires
better knowledge of solar radiation as an energy resource, it is beginning to
have an interest as relevant to cost-benefits studies as any other business
activity.
In 2006, numerous contacts were made with companies that have finally
materialized in technical assistance and three Collaboration Agreements. Due
to the confidential character of these relations, below only the content of the
agreements are described with a symbolic name.
COLLABORATION AGREEMENT A
This agreement with a Solar Power Tower Plant (in the framework of a
European Project) is for the Solar Radiation Group to perform the following
tasks:
1) Selection of the plant site and the measurement station
2) Configuration of the measurement station and assistance in its installation
3) Filtering and analysis of data recorded
4) Long-term extrapolation of measurements using satellite estimations
5) Generation of representative series for energy applications studies
COLLABORATION AGREEMENT B
In this case, collaboration is with a builder of Photovoltaic Farms. The purpose
is mainly supply and treatment (by CIEMAT) of all information available
on the solar radiation potential at specific sites in which this company is interested
in building a particular project. In addition to treatment of the measurements
available, the results from satellite imaging will be used and
adapted to the study site. This collaboration includes supply by CIEMAT to
both investors and financial entities of any scientific and technical documentation
required for finding the solar radiation potential.
COLLABORATION AGREEMENT C
This agreement with a company promoting both types of facilities mentioned
in Agreements A and B, includes all of the tasks mentioned above. Assistance
is therefore being given in the configuration and installation of the
measurement station, and a study of the incident solar radiation on the collector
surface plane for the technology being used at each particular plant
(direct radiation, global radiation on inclined surfaces, and global radiation
with tracking). The methodologies used are different in each case, adapted to
the particular needs of each initiative.
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