Abstract
Pursuing the commitment of California State to generate at least 20 percent of total generated energy from the renewable source by the year 2010 rather than 2017, many new power plants based on renewable energy sources are being set up in California [1]. This project is focused on the generation of electrical energy from solar intensity. by setting up a solar power plant is in the Redding, California region.. The choice of the place comes from the fact that it has favorable weather and farmlands within the region, which can easily supply the required intensity and load for Solar Power plant. This project report describes the design aspect of solar power plant which is application based as well as based on other designs used in similar power plants. The report first explores the main blocks of this project. The report then explains the requirement of non-polluting energy sources. Moreover, it explains how to collect solar insolation and how it generates the output power in the form of electrical energy. The report then includes about concept of tracking circuit and different technologies used for the same, then goes on to explain the data acquisition system. In the end, the aspect of generation of electrical power from the solar plant is explained along with calculations and simulation. The simulation has been done in Matlab© through writing a program code. Moreover, the generated power using glycol as a coolant has compared in the last part of this report.