Deloitte Report on Spanish Solar Thermal Power in 2010
The report ?Study of the Macroeconomic Impact of the Concentrated Solar Power Industry in Spain? by Deloitte, finds that in 2010 solar thermal industry received 185 million euros of incentives for electricity generation, while its contribution to the Spanish GDP was 1650 million euros, almost 24,000 jobs were created, mainly in areas of high unemployment rate,almost 1.2 million tons of CO2 were avoided as a result of this technology.
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