PRESS RELEASE
Torresol Energy and SENER attended WFES again this year
Madrid, January 28, 2013 - The SENER engineering and technology group and its joint venture with
Masdar, Torresol Energy, a company that promotes the technological development, construction,
operation and maintenance of large scale concentrated solar power plants around the world, attended
once again this year's World Future Energy Summit, the international future renewable energy
conference that was held from the 15th to the 17th of January in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Both companies, leaders in the solar power industry due to their development and application of
innovative technology, shared a stand where they showcased their latest achievements, a year after
having commercially launched the Valle 1 and Valle 2 power plants in Cadiz (south of Spain) and after
having operated the Gemasolar plant in Seville (south of Spain) as it was expected.
Torresol Energy showed off the expertise in solar plant operation and maintenance it has acquired
from its experience with Gemasolar, the first solar plant in the world to combine central tower
technology with a molten salt storage system and also on the other two projects, Valle 1 and Valle 2, two
twin plants of parabolic trough technology, whose entrance into commercial operation celebrates this
January one year.
As for SENER, which is a leader in the sector both for its technological solutions and for the number of
CSP plants whose engineering and construction it has developed, brought its latest technological
achievements to the trade fair: the cleaning systems HECTOR for heliostat plants and PARIS, for parabolic
trough cleaning plants. Likewise, SENER showed the improvements to its SENERtrough® parabolic trough
system, with the presentation of its second generation, the SENERtrough® 2.
During the conference, several personalities from politics and the industrial sector visited Torresol
Energy and SENER’s stand, for example the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince’s son, Sheikh Khaled Bin Mohamed Al
Nahyan.
In 2012, apart from having reached the milestone of supply capacity to the grid, both Torresol Energy
and SENER have been recognized in several awards: in May, SENER was named finalist in the prestigious
European Business Awards for the Environment, in its European Section, having won the final prize in the
previous Basque and Spanish Sections; in June, Torresol Energy was nominated for the US CSP Today
awards in the dispatchability category thanks to the Gemasolar plant and, in November, Torresol Energy
won the final award in the Dispatchability Solution Category of the CSP Today Seville 2013 awards.
More information:
Mariana Fernández. Communication. SENER Tel (+34) 91 807 87 01
Pilar García. Communication Manager. SENER Tel (+34) 91 807 72 41 (+34) 609 45 02 09
www.sener.es
About Torresol Energy
Torresol Energy, a joint venture between SENER and Masdar, was created with the goal of becoming a leader in
concentrated solar power (CSP) and with the mission of promoting the technological development and operation of large
concentrated solar power plants around the world, especially in the so-called sunbelt: Southern Europe (including Spain, North
Africa, the Middle East) and the southwest United States.
Each of Torresol Energy’s new projects will introduce and test out new technologies, with the support of SENER, in order
to make concentrated solar power a financially competitive option and transform it into a real, feasible, environmentally
friendly, and sustainable alternative to traditional energy. In this sense, environmental conservation for future generations is a
fundamental commitment of Torresol Energy.
The company currently operates the 19.9 MW Gemasolar plant, with central tower receiver and heliostat field technology,
located in Fuentes de Andalucia, Seville, and the Valle 1 and Valle 2 plants (50 MW each), two twin installations located in San
Jose del Valle, Cadiz, with parabolic trough collector technology.
About SENER
SENER is a private engineering and technology group founded in 1956, which strives to offer its customers the most
advanced technological solutions and enjoys international recognition for its commitment to innovation, quality and
independence. SENER has over 5,000 employees and a turnover of 1,160 million Euros (2011 data).
SENER specializes in turnkey or EPC projects (Engineering, Procurement & Construction) both of trough collector
technology and central tower receiver plants; this is the case of Gemasolar. Its ability to anticipate, combined with an
ambitious program for technological development, has turned SENER into a leader in cost-efficient solar innovations.
To date, SENER has worked in over twenty-five CSP plants, which represents a 21% of this kind of plants worldwide and a
42% of the plants in Spain, most of them in turnkey projects, in Spain, the U.S., India and South Africa. These projects
represent more than 1,500 MWe (which means a 20% of this kind of plants worldwide and a 43% of the Spanish plants) of
installed capacity and savings of over one million tons of CO 2. Some of them, already in operation, are true technological
milestones.
The two major contributions of SENER in the field of thermosolar technology have been: first, thermal storage, both in
plants with central tower receiver and in parabolic trough plants, which dramatically improves the regulation of hours of
generation. Thanks to its storage capacity, these plants may continue to produce energy in the absence of solar radiation and,
secondly, cost reduction by industrialized designs and processes.
Links:
www.sener.es; www.torresolenergy.com; www.worldfutureenergysummit.com
More information:
Mariana Fernández. Communication. SENER Tel (+34) 91 807 87 01
Pilar García. Communication Manager. SENER Tel (+34) 91 807 72 41 (+34) 609 45 02 09
www.sener.es