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Yes, many big PV plants in Spain

I haven't seen numbers for the distribution in Spain, but in Germany, the overwhelming majority of PV intsallations is rooftop, not free-field.

SP has the advantage that with molten salt and buffers you could/can actually produce 24/7...

That's indeed a big advantage. But, CSP is more limited geographically, and it remains to be seen whether and when it can be rolled out big-time (with multi-GW installations annually).

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Wed Feb 3rd, 2010 at 08:54:42 AM EST
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The Spanish ministry of Industry, Tourism, and commerce produces a set of annual electrical statistics.  Looking through it I'm surprised because the capacity of most of the installations are in the MW range.  Now, I don't know if this includes things on rooftops and the like.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Wed Feb 3rd, 2010 at 11:17:10 AM EST
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MW range, that's large free-field (private home rooftop is in the kW range, even industrial rooftop rarely exceeds 1MW). But I'm not sure that all projects are listed: if a significant percentage is rooftop, then it would be in the tens of thousands. Do you have a link?

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Wed Feb 3rd, 2010 at 02:01:00 PM EST
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It's all in .csv format and in Spanish.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg
by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 at 04:59:45 PM EST
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