Solar Thermoelectric Power Landscapes in Spain

Solar thermoelectric energy has developed in spectacular fashion over the last decade in Spain. The appearance of solar power stations using this technology is changing the landscape in many rural areas, as windfarms and photo-voltaic power stations have done since the end of the 1990s. We begin by presenting the different factors and processes that have facilitated the rapid deployment of this technology. We then go on to make a conceptualization of solar thermoelectric landscapes, by analysing the different kinds of landscape created by these technologies, and we present a map of these new landscapes in Spain. After that, we highlight the tensions and conflicts identified in the different…