Concentrated solar power

Concentrated solar power, also called concentrating solar power or concentrated solar thermal, involves systems that collect solar heat for multiple purposes like cooking, desalination, or the generation of electric solar power, by using mirrors to concentrate a large area of sunlight toward a receiver.
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  • Type: Power station
  • Description: large-scale solar thermal system using concentrated sunlight and a steam cycle
  • Also known as: “concentrated solar power plant”, “concentrated solar power station”, “concentrated solar thermal power station”, “CSP plant”, “CSP station”, “solar thermal power station”, “thermal solar power station”, and “Tooele Army Depot Concentrating Solar Power Project”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stockton and Tooele.

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is a town in , , United States. It is part of the Salt Lake City, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, had a population of 621. is situated 3½ miles south of Concentrated solar power.

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is a small city in , nestled against the foothills on the west side of the Oquirrh Mountains.

Concentrated solar power

Latitude
40.50105° or 40° 30′ 4″ north
Longitude
-112.37376° or 112° 22′ 26″ west
Inception
December 2021
Open location code
85G9GJ2G+CF
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1007899809
Wiki­data ID
Q285927
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Concentrated solar power” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sonskoorsteen”
  • Albanian: “Energjia diellore e përqendruar”
  • Arabic: “طاقة شمسية مركزة”
  • Arabic: “محطة طاقة شمسية مجمعة”
  • Arabic: “محطة طاقة شمسية مركزة”
  • Azerbaijani: “Konsentrik günəş elektrik stansiyası”
  • Basque: “Eguzki-energia termiko”
  • Basque: “Eguzki-energia termikoa”
  • Basque: “eguzki-zentral termoelektriko”
  • Basque: “zentral heliotermiko”
  • Catalan: “central solar tèrmica de concentració”
  • Chinese: “聚光太阳能热发电”
  • Croatian: “Sunčeva koncentrirana snaga”
  • Czech: “Koncentrovaná solární energie”
  • Danish: “Csp”
  • Danish: “Koncentreret solkraft”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محطة طاقة شمسية مجمعة”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محطة طاقة شمسية مركزة”
  • Esperanto: “koncentra sunenergia elektrejo”
  • Estonian: “Päikese soojuselektrijaam”
  • Estonian: “Päikese-soojuselektrijaam”
  • Finnish: “Keskittävä aurinkovoima”
  • French: “centrale solaire héliothermodynamique”
  • French: “centrale solaire thermodynamique à concentration”
  • French: “centrale solaire thermodynamique”
  • French: “Centrale solaire thermodynamique”
  • Galician: “Central térmica solar”
  • Galician: “Heliostato”
  • Galician: “Helióstato”
  • German: “solarthermische Kraftwerke”
  • German: “solarthermisches Kraftwerk”
  • German: “Solarwärmekraftwerk”
  • German: “Sonnenwärmekraftwerk”
  • Greek: “Ηλιοθερμικά συστήματα”
  • Hebrew: “מגדל השמש”
  • Hebrew: “מגדל סולארי”
  • Hebrew: “מגדל שמש”
  • Hungarian: “naphőerőmű”
  • Hungarian: “Naphőerőmű”
  • Ido: “Koncentrita sunala povo”
  • Indonesian: “Pembangkit listrik tenaga surya terkonsentrasi”
  • Indonesian: “penbangkit listrik tenaga surya terkonsentrasi”
  • Indonesian: “PLTS terkonsentrasi”
  • Italian: “concentrazione solare”
  • Italian: “Concentrazione solare”
  • Japanese: “ソーラー アップドラフト タワー”
  • Japanese: “集光型太陽光発電”
  • Kazakh: “Гелиоконцентратор”
  • Korean: “집광형 태양광 발전”
  • Korean: “태양열 발전”
  • Latvian: “koncentrēta solārā elektrostacija”
  • Marathi: “सौर औष्णिक विद्युत केंद्र”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “konsentrert solvarmekraftverk”
  • Norwegian: “Termisk solkraft”
  • Persian: “برق خورشیدی متمرکز”
  • Persian: “متمرکزکننده توان خورشید”
  • Polish: “Wieża słoneczna”
  • Portuguese: “Central solar”
  • Portuguese: “usina solar”
  • Portuguese: “Usina solar”
  • Pushto: “متمرکزه لمریزه برېښنا”
  • Romanian: “energie solară concentrată”
  • Romanian: “Energie solară concentrată”
  • Romanian: “heliocentrală cu energie concentrată”
  • Russian: “Гелиоконцентратор”
  • Russian: “Солнечная тепловая электростанция”
  • Serbian: “Концентрована соларна енергија”
  • Slovak: “Slnečná prúdová veža”
  • Slovak: “Zrkadlový zberač slnečnej energie”
  • Slovenian: “sončna toplotna centrala”
  • Spanish: “central de energía solar de concentración”
  • Spanish: “central de energía solar térmica”
  • Spanish: “central de energía solar termoeléctrica”
  • Spanish: “central de energía térmica solar”
  • Spanish: “central solar térmica de concentración”
  • Spanish: “Central termica solar”
  • Spanish: “Central térmica solar”
  • Spanish: “central termosolar”
  • Spanish: “Energía termosolar de concentración”
  • Spanish: “planta de energía solar de concentración”
  • Spanish: “planta de energía térmica solar”
  • Swedish: “Termisk solkraft”
  • Swedish: “termiskt solkraftverk”
  • Tamil: “குவிக்கப்பட்ட சூரிய ஆற்றல்”
  • Tamil: “சூரிய வெப்ப ஆற்றல்”
  • Thai: “พลังงานแสงอาทิตย์แบบรวมความเข้มข้น”
  • Thai: “โรงไฟฟ้าพลังงานแสงอาทิตย์แบบรวมความเข้มข้น”
  • Turkish: “Yek-odaklı güneş enerjisi santralleri”
  • Turkish: “Yoğunlaştırmalı güneş enerjisi”
  • Ukrainian: “Геліоконцентратор”
  • Ukrainian: “концентрована сонячна електростанція”
  • Ukrainian: “теплова сонячна електростанція”
  • Uzbek: “Geliokonsentrator”
  • Vietnamese: “Năng lượng mặt trời tập trung”
  • Vietnamese: “Năng lượng Mặt Trời tập trung”
  • Walloon: “Cintråle loumire-tcholeur-corant”
  • Wu Chinese: “聚光太阳能热发电”

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