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Port of Antwerp installs Europe’s first industrial solar concentrator

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Port of Antwerp installs Europe’s first industrial solar concentrator

October 23, 2019: Port of Antwerp today announced the inauguration of the first ‘Concentrated Solar Thermal Plant’ (CST) in European process industry that could generate eco-friendly heat from sunlight for Adpo Logistics in Beveren, Belgium.

The plant was installed by the Genk-based energy company Azteq as part of a pilot project co-financed by the Flemish government.

Together with industry, we are working to reduce CO2 emissions and make the transition to alternative energy sources, so as to become a CO2-neutral port.

We want to be a testbed for technological innovation that helps us on the way to a sustainable future.

Industrial companies normally obtain heat for their processes from the combustion of fossil fuels such as natural gas.

Concentrated Solar Thermal energy is an innovative technology in which sunlight is concentrated by parabolic mirrors and so converted directly to heat.

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