MENA/Chile: Concentrating Solar Benchmark Costs
A tender for 94.5 USD/MWhel in Dubai and an R&D initiative called SunShot in the United States have shown how the cost of concentrated solar power (CSP...
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November 2, 2016 IEA SHC Task 46: Bankable Solar Data Sets for Concentrating Technologies
Whether investors put their money into large-scale concentrating solar heat and power systems, solar district heating plants or photovoltaic fields, they need to be able to rely on data sets to include the uncertainty and variability of input information. Financial institutions do like to...
June 20, 2015 The Value of Concentrating Solar Power and Thermal Energy Storage (2010)
This is a technical paper written by the National Renewable Laboratory, a division of the US Department of Energy. The report looks at the value added by thermal energy storage to concentrating solar power in the southwestern United States. The analysis by the authors shows...
June 20, 2015 Solar Thermal Trends, Performance-Based Incentives, and RPS (2012)
This presentation was created by the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA) and was presented originally as a webinar. It focuses on trends in solar thermal and the implementation of solar thermal technology as part of renewable energy statewide portfolios. In 2011, the largest...
June 15, 2015 Concentrated Solar Power – Focusing the sun’s energy for large-scale power generation (2009)
This fact sheet was written by the Environmental and Energy Study Institute in 2009. The document starts with a brief background on solar thermal energy and then describes the different types of solar thermal systems (parabolic trough, linear fresnal reflectors, dish/engine,...
April 6, 2015 Advancement of Solar Thermal Technologies (2010)
This presentation was created by Jane H. Davidson of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. It focuses on large scale power generation for possible industrial use of solar thermal.
According to the presentation, concentrated solar power in the Southwest...
October 20, 2009 Thermal Storage Analysis in CSP Plants (2009)
This presentation, prepared by Leonardo Energy, describes and discusses ways to improve solar thermal storage technologies, notably melted salt and concrete storage. The improvement of these technologies would allow a better profit of the energy produced by power plants.
October 13, 2009 Report CSP Workshop, South Africa (2009)
This is the report of a CSP workshop, which took place in South Africa on 22 May 2009. The workshop results from the necessity to gather project developers, the government, NGOs and research centers to start a discussion on scaling up CSP.
In South Africa, the development of CSP...
August 25, 2009 TREE Project – CSP Seminars in South Africa (2009)
The TREE Project (Transfer Renewable Energy & Efficiency), run by the Renewables Academy (RENAC) in Berlin aims to promote capacity building and know-how transfer in renewable energies (RE), energy efficiency (EE) and climate protection for both decision makers from politics and business,...
July 22, 2009 Worldwide Dissemination of CSP Technologies and Resulting Economical Opportunities for the German Industry (2009)
This 2009 study from the Wuppertal Institute looks into the economical opportunities of CSP development from a German perspective. The study analyses the role German companies can play in the development of CSP technologies and how the export of these technologies to the “sunbelt” regions can...
June 29, 2009 Feed-In Tariffs Support Solar Thermal Power in Spain
This document explains how the use of Feed-In Tariffs has been beneficial for the development of concentrating solar power (CSP) in Spain. A Feed-In Tariff ensures that the entrepreneurs’ electricity will be bought at a guaranteed rate for a fixed period of time.
June 26, 2009 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...