Reliance Power has reportedly started the pre-commissioning stage for its Concentrated Solar Power plant in
The plant, developed by Rajasthan Sun Technique, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Power after it was awarded in the first phase of the JNNSM (India's national solar mission), is expected to come on-line by March 2014.
The project is the wolrd's largest plant to use the linear Fresnel technology. Areva Solar was selected by Reliance to provide its proprietary CLFR technology.
AREVA Solar’s core technology, the Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR) solar collector and steam generation system, uses modular flat reflectors to focus the sun's heat onto elevated receivers, which consist of a system of tubes through which water flows. Then concentrated sunlight boils the water and generates superheated steam.
