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Solar Thermoelectric Energy Laboratory

El Médano, Spain

Laboratorio de Energía Solar Termoeléctrica is an abandoned dish structure near to El Medano, Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. It was built in 2008 to generate solar energy, but was constructed without permission and was abandoned in 2009.

Power station data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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