Solar/wind power plants

Abstract This paper discusses the background, theory, design, construction, costs and economics of solar/wind power plants and provides a brief description of the 50 kW plant which has been built in Spain to demonstrate the feasibility of the concept and to verify the theoretical work. The work done to date gives confidence in technical and economic viability of large megawatt-scale installations in sunny regions of the world with arid or semi-arid locations.