03/12/2015
SENER Technologies in the News
SENER Technologies in the News
The SENER engineering and technology group with Catalan headquarters in the Barcelona Synchrotron Park (BSP) is in the news this week.
Gemasolar designed by SENER is the most innovative thermo solar power plant in the world. It represents Spain in the “United for Climate” European Union campaign for the COP21 conference currently held in Paris until December 11, as announced by the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment. This plant was the first commercial one to generate non-stop electricity exclusively with solar energy using molten salt as heat transfer fluid and energy storage medium: Gemasolar can feed the grid on demand, generally a weakness for renewable energies.
Moreover, in collaboration with the Institute of Space Sciences located on the campus of the UAB University BSP partner, SENER has been in charge of the design, development, production, integration and verification of the Data and Diagnostic Subsystem of the LISA Pathfinder satellite, a European Space Agency technologies demonstrator made in collaboration with NASA and successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana, on December 3. This mission aims at testing elements of the future LISA gravitational waves observatory that will “hear” the universe in order to detect these waves and confirm part of the general relativity theory presented by Einstein one century ago, exactly on Novembre 25, 1915.
Image: ESA
Gemasolar designed by SENER is the most innovative thermo solar power plant in the world. It represents Spain in the “United for Climate” European Union campaign for the COP21 conference currently held in Paris until December 11, as announced by the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment. This plant was the first commercial one to generate non-stop electricity exclusively with solar energy using molten salt as heat transfer fluid and energy storage medium: Gemasolar can feed the grid on demand, generally a weakness for renewable energies.
Moreover, in collaboration with the Institute of Space Sciences located on the campus of the UAB University BSP partner, SENER has been in charge of the design, development, production, integration and verification of the Data and Diagnostic Subsystem of the LISA Pathfinder satellite, a European Space Agency technologies demonstrator made in collaboration with NASA and successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana, on December 3. This mission aims at testing elements of the future LISA gravitational waves observatory that will “hear” the universe in order to detect these waves and confirm part of the general relativity theory presented by Einstein one century ago, exactly on Novembre 25, 1915.
Image: ESA
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