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May

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23
May

Solar Tower In Sevilla , Andalucia

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The PS20 tower near Sevilla in andalucia went into production last week .It is the largest solar tower in the world .

It has the capacity of 20 mega watts and can service 10,000 homes .It is situated in Sanlucar la  Mayor.It has just undergone a three day testing period .It is the second solar energy plant being operated by Abengoa in Spain .

The plant is made up of 1255 mirrors , each 120 square metres in size and they focus the rays of the sun onto the top of the 160 metre high tower .This heat energy drives a steam turbine which in turn creates electricity .

When it is at full capacity in 2013 it will generate 300 megawatts and supply 153 ,000 homes .This has to be the way forward for a part of Europe which has so much sunshine .Wind farms will also be proliferating on the Atlantic coast too .

23
May

Antequera Mayor In Trouble

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The Mayor of Antequera has virtually lost control of the council in the Andalucian town .He had a coalition with the far left IU party but now his PSOE party is virtually on its own .

The Mayor has fallen out with his fragile coalition partners over the Town Plan ( PGOU ) .The Mayor has plans to urbanise large tracts of the Antequeran countryside with tens of thousands of new homes .This is in an area where water is always at a premium and there isn’t enough to go around at this moment in time .

The Vega de Antequera is a reknowned agricultural area and three of the IU councillors walked out of the council meeting where the issue was being put forward .They do not want this region to be concreted over and they quite rightly fear that the aquifers which supply the water will not cope .

Already Spain is being criticised for over development in a huge area of the coast and here is another example of the same thing happening again .These huge projects smell of expediency and short termism .It also smells of the ” fast buck “  .When will these people learn from past experience ?

23
May

Andalucia Wine

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Near a town called Arcos de la Frontera in Andalucia there is a vineyard making a red wine which is causing quite a stir in wine circles .It is one of the most unusual wines being made in Andalucia at the moment .The owner of the vineyard is Vicente Taberner and he is from Valencia .The vineyard buildings have a very Roman country villa feel and that it appears was a quite deliberate strategy as they actually discovered the remains of a Roman villa when they were preparing the vineyard in 2000.They have even asked the local archaeological museum to excavate the remains but they do not have the money to do so at the moment .They have been advised to leave well alone until it can be excavated and so the vines are planted around it .

Taberner has a very good business importing Spanish wines into Germany and lives in Frankfurt for three quarters of his month .Travelling to Andalucia to supervise the work there .Choosing andalucia to grow vines for a superlative wine is a gamble but this man has travelled the length and breadth of Spain and has chosen this spot .He has already produced a 2005 vintage which has acquired high acclaim  and he maintains that the 2006 will be even better .An American wine writer has acclaimed the 2005 as as good as the best of the Northern Rhones .

This is a man possessed with the idea of turning this part of Spain , near the Costa de la Luz into one of the top wine producing places in the world .