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2013
• Chile 27.5 MWth (39,300m2 ) with 4,000m3 of storage provides 85% of the Heat for Copper Mine
installation at Codelco Gabriela Mistral mine site for heating baths used for electrolytic refining of copper

2014
• Establishment of the Global Solar Certification Network (GSCN), during its first meeting in Spain, in
April 2014. The GSCN was developed under the framework of the IEA SHC Task 57 “Solar Standards and
Certification”. It was managed by Jan Erik Nielsen with Harald Drück as Chairman.

2016
• Opening of the Silkeborg (Denmark) solar district heating plant comprising 150 000 m2 of large module
collectors (110 MWth) built by Arcon. The Silkeborg plant was the largest among more than 100 district
heating plants with solar collector arrays of 2 – 110 MWth (1 500 – 150 000 m2 collector area) that, based
on the technology pioneered in Sweden in the early 1980’s, were installed in Denmark from around 2007
until end 2017.

• The Chinese solar district heating plant using parabolic trough collectors The installation in Baotou in Inner
Mongolia, consists of two fields of parabolic trough collectors, a 22,000 m rooftop field and a 71,000
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m system put up at ground level. The 93,000 m (65 MW ) SDH plant was the world’s second-largest
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installation but the biggest using concentrating collectors.
2019
• Two of the largest sub-Saharan solar heating systems launched in South Africa. Each of these two
SOLTRAIN projects include 600 m solar heating plant using 10 m Austrian collectors They are a district
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heating plant for Wits University residences and a solar process heat plant for the Klein Karoo International
tannery, and are supported by the South African National Energy Development Institute (SANEDI).
• The southern Tibetan town of Saga has been home to the fourth solar district heating plant in the region
after similar systems had already been installed in Langkazi, Shenzha and Zhongba. The plant has a
heat generation capacity of 13.4 MW (19,136 m ) and includes large flat plate collectors by Chinese
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manufacturer Jinheng Solar as well as two storage units that can hold 4,500 m each.
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• Tibet’s first solar district heating plant made up of parabolic trough collectors installed by Vicot Solar
Technology, the turnkey solar field supplier based in Dezhou, China. The 20,000 m system supplies heat
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to 1,800 households in the town of Shenzha, in the Naqu prefecture in northern Tibet.

2020
• 360 MW installed capacity at Miraah Oman. Originally planned by Glasspoint to be a 1GW plant for
Enhanced Oil recovery.
11.6 CSP 2010-2021

2010
• The 75 MW Martin Next Generation Integrated Solar (CSP) Combined Cycle was completed and came
online.
• Ain Beni Mathar Integrated Solar (CSP) Combined Cycle 20 MW plant began operation in Morocco. This is
the first of five ISCC plants supported by the World Bank GEF program.

2011
• Kuraymat Integrated Solar (CSP) Combined Cycle 20MW plant began operation in Egypt and the Hassi
R’mel Integrated Solar (CSP) Combined Cycle 20 MW plant began operation in Algeria.
• In Spain, Gemasolar, a 17 MW molten-salt tower plant with 15 hours of thermal energy storage became
the first commercial molten-salt tower plant to come online.

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