Location: GLO - Global
This activity represents the generation of electricity with a 50 MW solar thermal parabolic trough power plant in Upington, South Africa. This requires a fully constructed solar thermal parabolic trough and the required co-firing diesel fuel to run the plant.
Undefined unit processes (UPRs) are the unlinked, multi-product activity datasets that form the basis for all of the system models available in the ecoinvent database. This is the way the datasets are obtained and entered into the database by the data providers. These activity datasets are useful for investigating the environmental impacts of a specific activity (gate-to-gate), without regard to its upstream or downstream impacts.