• 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.)

• Next week we’re going to listen to  an NPR story about the same site and fill the gaps in the transcript.

NPR (National Public Radio) is an American producer and distributor of noncommercial news, talk, and entertainment programming. Most stories with transcript.

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

You might also…

• watch a video about concentrating 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 IS  improving ! (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). This one is easy.