Avery Dennison Commissions the Largest Concentrated Solar Thermal Platform and Thermal Storage Unit in Europe
Avery Dennison has commissioned Europe’s largest Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) platform and thermal storage unit at its production plant in Turnhout, Belgium. The renewable energy project contains a CST platform of 2,240 surface mirrors, with a solar field peak yield of 2.7 GWh thermal power, and six thermal storage modules with a capacity of five MWh thermal power.
The renewable energy platform, consisting of a CST field and thermal storage unit, covers roughly 5,540 square meters on site, and will contain the largest installation of parabolic mirrors combined with thermal energy storage in an industrial setting in Europe. In operation, the total installation will provide heat equivalent to 2.3 GWh of gas consumption, reducing the plant’s greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 9% annually. During summer months and high-sunshine periods, it will provide up to 100% of the factory’s heat demand.