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In 2001, the Italian
Parliament allocated € 55 million for
CSP development and a national
demonstration programme. In early 2004, a cooperation agreement between the
National Environmental & Renewable Research centre,
ENEA and
ENEL, Italy’s
and one of Europe’s biggest utility companies, was signed to develop the
Archimede Project in Sicily as the first Italian solar plant integrated with
an existing combined cycle plant with advanced parabolic trough technology,
using new collector design, new absorber tubes and molten salts as heat
transfer and thermal storage fluid.
Evaluation of Eurodish
system in Italy |
