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Concentrated
Solar Power
Engineering
and Project Development Services
What is Concentrated Solar Power?
Concentrated solar power plants or "CSP" plants, generate electric power by converting the sun's energy into high-temperature heat using various mirror configurations. The heat is then channeled through a conventional generator. The plants consist of two parts: one that collects solar energy and converts it to heat, and another that converts heat energy to electricity.
Concentrated solar power systems can be sized for village power (10 kilowatts) or grid-connected applications (up to 100 megawatts). Some CSP systems use thermal storage during cloudy periods or at night. Others can be combined with natural gas and the resulting hybrid power plants provide high-value, dispatchable power. These attributes, along with world record solar-to-electric conversion efficiencies, make concentrating solar power an attractive renewable energy option in the Southwest and other sunbelt regions worldwide.
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About us:
We provide Concentrated Solar Power plant project development services including;
Engineering
Feasibility Studies
Economic Feasibility Analysis
Front End Engineering Design - FEED
Project Development
Project Management
Project Finance/Funding introduction to potential investors
Power Purchase Agreement consulting
Interconnection Studies
and other concentrated solar power project development services.
Our work is performed on a strict adherence to "vendor-neutrality." We seek to maximize the return on investment from both the economic and environmental aspects while simultaneously minimizing the operational expenses for our clients. Our lead engineer has nearly thirty years experience in solar power engineering, design and research and development. Our team's experience includes turnkey solar and power generation engineering and project development services in the U.S. as well as countries as far away as China.
Call/email
us to learn more about our services or to
receive a preliminary, no obligation consult, send your proposed CSP project
details to us by email.
info@ConcentratedSolarPower.com
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Additional Products and Services Include
Battery Energy Storage * Carbon Free Energy * Clean Development Mechanism * Clean Power Generation
Concentrating Solar Power * Demand Side Management * Emissions Abatement * Engineering Feasibility
Engineering Procurement Construction * Molten Salt Storage * Parabolic Troughs * Pollution Free Power
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Why Concentrated Solar Power is one of the Few "Superior" Renewable Energy Technologies
Concentrated solar power plants use the high annual solar irradiance of the geographic location to generate "carbon free energy" and "pollution free power."
For generating power after the sun sets, many owners/developer of concentrated solar power plants are now installing "Molten Salt Storage" systems that reserves enough energy to allow for electricity generation throughout the nighttime period.
Steam turbines and gas turbines powered by coal, uranium, oil and natural gas are the fuels used today for generating power and electric grid stability. These fuels provide both base-load and peak power. However, these same steam turbines can also be powered by the high temperature heat from concentrated solar power plants.
Concentrated solar power plants in the 30 MW - 200 MW range are now operating successfully in locations from California to Europe. Nearly every day now, new concentrated solar power plants are being planned for construction. The concentrating solar collectors are very efficient and they also completely replace the fossil fuels that were used in traditional power plants. Today's concentrated solar power plants generate the heat needed to generate electricity at a cost equivalent to $50 - $60 per barrel of oil (equivalent). This cost is expected be slashed by 50% to below $25 - $30 per barrel in the next 10 years.
Just like conventional fossil-fueled power plants, concentrated solar power plants generate base-load and peaking power electricity.
Just like fossil fuel fired conventional power plants, concentrated solar power plants have an availability that is close to 100 %, but without the carbon emissions, carbon dioxide emissions, hazardous air pollutants, nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds and greenhouse gas emissions that fossil fuel power plants emit.
A
concentrated
solar power plant with a
molten salt storage facility for
full load operation during the nighttime period is currently being built in Nevada near
Guadix.
This concentrating
solar power plant will generate 50 MW of
power.
Another feature that distinguishes concentrated
solar power plants
is the opportunity for combined generation of heat and power - a technology that
is called "Integrated
Solar Combined Cycle" which achieves the highest possible efficiencies for energy conversion. In addition
to power generation, such plants can provide steam for absorption
chillers and/or adsorption
chillers, industrial process heat or thermal ocean water desalination. A design study for such a plant was
completed in 2006. This plant is scheduled to be commissioned in early 2009.
This Integrated Solar
Combined Cycle will provide 10 MW of power, 40 MW of district cooling and 10,000 cubic
meters per day of desalted water for a large hotel in Jordan.
What
is a "Parabolic Trough"
or a "Parabolic
Trough Collector"?
A parabolic trough or a parabolic trough collector, is one of the components that make up a concentrating solar power plant.
Parabolic Troughs are, in essence, curved mirrors designed to reflect the energy from the sunlight, onto a "Dewar Tube" that run the length of the parabolic trough's focal point. Parabolic Troughs are typically constructed with either a coated silver or polished aluminum.
Parabolic
Troughs are aligned on a north-south basis and they track or rotate
throughout the day to follow the sun in order to keep the maximum amount of the
sun's available energy concentrated on them.
Inside the Dewar Tube is a "heat transfer fluid" that absorbs the heat
energy from the sun, which is then pumped from the Dewar Tube to a Heat
Recovery Steam Generator, where the heat energy is converted into steam,
which then drives one or more steam
turbines, which is connected to a synchronous
generator, which then generates electricity and is sent to the electric
grid.
The temperature of the heat transfer fluid quickly reaches 750 degrees as the sun's energy is captured by the Parabolic Troughs. The overall process is very economical and thermal efficiency ranges from about 60% to as high as 80%.
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All
the Electricity the World Needs
With Zero Greenhouse
Gas Emissions
from Concentrating
Solar Power Plants
Using a Very Small Part of the Desert
In
the map below, the larger red square on the left shows an area of hot desert
that, if covered with concentrating
solar power plants,
would produce as much electricity as the world currently
uses. The smaller square shows a corresponding area for providing all of the
power needed by the European Union.
The map and information above courtesy of www.Desertec.org
The Following Press Release Re-printed with
Permission from The World Bank
Over $5.5 billion in New Investment for Clean Energy Technology in the Middle East and North Africa Region
Washington, D.C., December 1, 2009 - Concentrated Solar Power project financing in the amount of $750 million was issued on December 2, 2009, and will mobilize an additional $4.85 billion from other sources, to accelerate global deployment of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP). It will do so by investing in the CSP programs of five countries in the Middle East and North Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia. The CTF is a multi-donor trust fund to facilitate deployment of low-carbon technologies at scale. Specifically, the CTF approved an investment plan which will:
Enable MENA to contribute the benefit of its unique geography to global climate change mitigation -- no other region has such a favorable combination of physical and market advantages for
CSP;
Support the deployment of about 1 gigawatt of CSP generation capacity, amounting to a tripling of worldwide CSP capacity;
Support associated transmission infrastructure in the Maghreb and Mashreq for domestic supply and exports, as part of Mediterranean grid enhancement. This will enable the scale up of CSP through market integration in the region;
Leverage public and private investments for CSP power plants, thereby almost tripling current global investments in CSP; and
Support MENA countries to achieve their development goals of energy security, industrial growth and diversification, and regional integration
The proposed
gigawatt-scale deployment through 11 commercial-scale power plants over a 3-5 year time-frame would provide the critical mass of investments necessary to attract significant private sector interest, benefit from economies of scale to reduce cost, result in learning in diverse operating conditions, and manage risk.
Officials stated "This is a most strategic and significant initiative for MENA countries. The initiative would leverage energy diversification, while promoting Euro-Mediterranean integration to the benefit of MENA countries that will be able to exploit one of the major untapped sources of energy. This endeavor is far-reaching with global objectives, implications, and potential impact. It will facilitate faster and greater diffusion of this technology in this region which holds significant potential for
CSP".
Potential for Green House Gas (GHG) reduction: The proposed projects will avoid about 1.7 million tons of carbon dioxide per year from the energy sectors of the countries. If the program is successful and replicated, the global benefits will be far larger. The transformational objective of this investment plan is served by accelerating cost reduction for a technology that could become least-cost globally, and then be replicated in other countries with high GHG emissions.
Expected Results from the Investment plan: The results indicators for the investment plan are:
§ GHG reductions of at least 1.7 million tons of CO2-equivalent per year.
§ Approximately 900 MW of installed CSP capacity by 2020.
§ $4.85 billion of co-financing mobilized, including sufficient financing to ensure viability of CSP plants.
§ Cost of typical solar field in US$ per m2 is expected to decline over the life of the program.
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