IN PICTURES: New ‘lantern-like’ translucent power plant in Spain will give locals a glimpse into renewable energy production [Video]

AN innovative new thermal power plant with a distinctive ‘lantern-like’ shape has emerged from the plains of northern Spain.

Located in Palencia, an Estepona-sized town just north of Valladolid, the 1,960-square-metre building will take the shape of a pill to provide heating to the town’s 80,000 inhabitants.

Residents passing the immediately recognisable landmark, dubbed DH Palencia, will be able to get a glimpse into the heart of the energy-generating process through a translucent ribbed facade.

Welded from steel and plastic, it has been designed to connect the local populace with the new methods of generating power and even educate them on renewable sources of energy.

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It sits atop a huge ‘bathtub of heavy concrete’ which in turn conceals an underground silo which stores biomass from local forests and other renewable sources.

Lauding it as …