central receivers
Solar Thermal Power Generation and Sea Water Desalination (2005)
This report was prepared by Stephen Kanef for the Energy Research Centre at ANUTECH. The document goes into great detail explaining the potential that solar power collection and large dish storage systems have in relation to desalination.
The author describes the various types of solar collectors and gives various charts and graphs to display designs and effectiveness. Comparisons on the cost of solar thermal relating to heat and desalination are also given vs. gas and other renewable energy costs.
Solar Thermal Electricity as the Primary Replacement for Coal and Oil in U.S. Generation and Transportation (2008)
This report was prepared by David R. Mills and Robert G. Morgan.
The report talks about various ways the US can use the sun as an integrated renewable energy source to fully power the US electrical grid. The report also shows how STE (solar thermal electricity) is being used in different platforms and with the proper storage could be used to power a great majority of the US. A calculation provided in the report suggest that the cost of the STE option will be less than continuing to import oil as well as decrease our dependence on fossil fuels.
Concentrating Solar Power: Global Outlook 09
This 2009 report looks into the global outlook of concentrating solar power (CSP). The report first looks into the different CSP technologies and makes a comparison based on the advantages and disadvantages. The report also provides an overview of the CSP development by region. For certain countries per region a more detailed assessment is provided. In particular, the potential of the Mediterranean and the MENA region is being assessed.
- Algeria
- Australia
- Awareness Raising
- central receivers
- Certification
- China
- concentrated solar power
- costs
- CSP
- CSP market
- Egypt
- Finance and Incentives
- France
- global
- India
- Iran
- Israel
- Italy
- Jordan
- linear Fresnel
- Market Potential
- Mediterranean
- Morocco
- parabolic dish
- parabolic trough
- Policy
- scenarios
- South Africa
- Spain
- technologies
- Turkey
- USA
Solar Thermal Power Plants (2000)
This document was submitted to the European Renewable Energy Research Centres Agency (EUREC) in 2000 in regards to three technologies to solar thermal power plants: parabolic troughs, central receivers (towers) and parabolic dishes.
The document touches on the success of trough-type solar thermal power stations in California, which have fed more than 8 billion kWh of solar-based electricity to Southern California.
This paper breaks down what has kept this technology from moving forward, as well as projected goals for market success of these technologies:
