Current demo projects up to 6 MW

Larger plants under development (up to 150 MW)

Linear Fresnel collectors are line focusing systems like parabolic troughs with a similar power generation technology and thus the same limitations. These systems are in a developing stage with the first demonstrators recently built and operated. The difference with parabolic troughs is the fixed absorber position above a field of horizontally mounted flat mirror stripes, collectively or individually tracked to the sun.

So far in Europe no fully commercial plants based on the Fresnel principle are being developed. Demonstration plants in the several MW-scales are being built in Europe and the USA to evaluate and prove electricity generation costs, to gain operation experience and eventually commercial confidence.

The EIB is participating in the PE1 project being built in Spain by Novatec BioSol.