The 115-meter tower rises imposingly from the surrounding Andalusian countryside in southern Spain. The tower is the focal point of the Sol�car facility, the largest commercial power plant of its type in the world. Mirrors fan out and reflect the sun’s beams to the top of the tower, where the heat they generate warms a tank of water that produces steam and drives a turbine to produce electricity.
The plant, which is operated by Sol�car Energia, S.A., a subsidiary of Spanish conglomerate Abengoa S.A., is at the cutting edge of Spain’s advanced and rapidly developing renewable energy market. Since the first wind farms started to appear across the country’s arid landscape in the early 1990s, successive governments have committed the country to one of the most ambitious renewable energy policies in the world. Only Germany generates more power than Spain from its wind farms, with the United States a close third in the global rankings.
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