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Understanding Thermal and Solar Power

Thermal power is produced by converting heat into electricity through heat engines. Solar thermal power plants use the sun's energy to heat a fluid and generate electricity by turning turbines with steam. The largest solar power plant is the Solar Energy Generating System in California with a total capacity of 350MW from nine solar thermal plants.

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Understanding Thermal and Solar Power

Thermal power is produced by converting heat into electricity through heat engines. Solar thermal power plants use the sun's energy to heat a fluid and generate electricity by turning turbines with steam. The largest solar power plant is the Solar Energy Generating System in California with a total capacity of 350MW from nine solar thermal plants.

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Thermal power is a power produced by converting heat into electricity.

Thermal power
describes how fast fuel is converted to heat in most energy systems, such as a gasoline
engine. Heat is generated by these heat engines in order to do productive work. The
heat input to a boiler in a power plant to create electricity is usually referred to as
thermal power.
Solar Energy
Solar energy is the radiant light and heat from the Sun that is captured using a variety of
methods, including solar power to create electricity, solar thermal energy, such as solar
water heating, and solar architecture. It is an important renewable energy source, and
its methods are classified as passive or active solar depending on how they gather and
distribute solar energy or convert it to solar power.
Solar thermal power plants use the Sun's energy to heat a fluid to a high temperature
in order to generate electricity. The heat from this fluid is transferred to water, which
subsequently forms superheated steam. In a power plant, the steam is utilized to turn
turbines, and the mechanical energy is transformed into electricity by a generator.
History in Solar Thermal Power Plant
At the 1878 Universal Exhibition in Paris, Augustin Mouchot showed a solar collector
with a cooling engine creating ice cream. Frank Shuman installed the first solar thermal
energy equipment in the Sahara in 1910, when a steam engine was powered by
sunlight-generated steam. The Sahara project was abandoned once liquid fuel engines
were created and proved to be more convenient, only to be revived several decades
later. As of now, the largest solar power plant in the world, PV or otherwise is the Solar
Energy Generating System (SEGS) in California. Nine solar thermal plants make up
SEGS and have a total capacity of 350MW, enough to power about 105,000 homes.

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