• PS 10 Solar thermal power plant :  watch the report (BBC News,  2 May 2007) – then read the article  (esp. the part « How it works »).  (You might wish  to read further  explanations on Abengoa’s website.)

• Listen to the NPR story (August 2007) and fill in the gaps in your text.  Then check your answers, reading the article on NPR’s website : Spain runs Europe’s first commercial solar thermal power plant.

Now you are ready to listen to a new audio file (Test 2).

You might also…

• watch a video about concentraing solar power technologies on the EERE website (U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy).   If you click the CC (closed captions) icon  subtitles will be displayed. (While you’re there… you might be interested in watching other videos on that website. A full transcript is available for some of them.)

• want to listen to another programme on the same subject (BBC  Radio 4, You and Yours – Environment, December 2008 : Generating green electricity in Spain) just in order to check that your listening comprehension HAS improved ! (Real Player should be installed on your PC – it’s free.)

• browse through a document published by the MIT Technology Review about solar power in Spain.

• have a look here : the video collection on the Solar Energy Technology Program’s multimedia website (US Department of Energy) provides a variety of videos related to photovoltaic and concentrating solar energy technologies (many of them with CC).