I don’t know what Malta specifically is doing. The project mentioned elsewhere in here[1] is actually a thermal plant design — it uses mirrors to build a solar

I don’t know what Malta specifically is doing. The project mentioned elsewhere in here[1] is actually a thermal plant design — it uses mirrors to build a solar furnace and the salt acts as a buffering stage before the heat gets transferred to a conventional steam turbine setup. This eliminates one of the conversion steps. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Solar_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Solar_Project