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Sign upDecember 1, 2023
Heineken Spain
Valencia
HEINEKEN and CSIN (Solatom Indertec Company) have inaugurated the world’s largest solar thermal plant in Quart de Poblet, Valencia, Spain, integrating advanced Fresnel1 and Solatom LFT20 technologies. Designed to meet HEINEKEN Spain's demand for high-temperature saturated steam in their production process, the plant utilizes innovative mirror systems that track the sun and concentrate solar energy into a tube receiver, producing the required steam. This state-of-the-art facility marks a significant leap toward renewable thermal energy adoption and supports HEINEKEN's ambition of achieving net-zero emissions across its value chain by 2040.
Built in just eight months, the plant is expected to cut approximately 1,300 tons of CO2 emissions annually. By the end of 2024, the Valencia brewery aims to source 42% of its energy from renewable electrical and thermal sources.
Solatom produces renewable energy heat by concentrating solar energy with mirrors that track the sun. This energy is concentrated into a receiver - an isolated vacuum tube absorber - where steam, hot oil or hot air is produced. Thanks to this heat, Solatom not only manages to reduce the industry’s CO2 emissions, but it also manages to reduce the client’s energy bill. This reduction in price is possible thanks to its innovative design, which allows the solar energy to be converted directly into heat, rather than producing electricity first, to later produce heat. Another big advantage of Solatom’s product is the high temperature (up to 350 ºC) it can reach. Many industries demand high temperatures, and conventional solar flat plate collectors are just not able to generate heat at temperatures over 120 ºC. This is because flat plat collectors do not track the sun to concentrate the energy, which limits its use to households and not solving the industries problem, like Solatom does.
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