Concentrated Solar Power
Concentrated solar power (also called concentrating solar power, concentrated solar thermal, and CSP) systems use mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight, or solar thermal energy, onto a small area. Electrical power is produced when the concentrated light is converted to heat, which drives a heat engine (usually a steam turbine) connected to an electrical power generator.
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... The 2006 World Solar Rally in Taiwan was a solar vehicle auto race held in September 2006 in Taiwan ...
... to 2015, calls for installing 1,000 MW by 2015, and 3,000 MW of concentrated solar power plants by 2020 ...
... There are several proposals for gigawatt size, very large scale solar power plants ... generate 2,357,840 TWh each year from very large scale solar power plants using 1% of each of the world's deserts ... VIII and SEGS IX) and the largest single plant in construction is 370 MW (Ivanpah Solar) ...
... In Feb 2010, Areva formed Areva Solar with its acquisition of US-based Ausra, a provider of concentrated solar power solutions using Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLF ... Headquartered in Mountain View, California, Areva Solar operates a 5MWe solar power plant in Bakersfield, California, at its Kimberlina Solar Thermal Energy Plant development facility ... Areva Solar markets its solar boiler technology in three formats as a standalone solar power plant generating 50MW+ of electricity, as a solar booster (20-50MW) adding solar steam power to an existing fossil-fuel ...
... Solar power is the conversion of sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV), or indirectly using concentrated solar power (CSP) ... Concentrated solar power systems use lenses or mirrors and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam ... Commercial concentrated solar power plants were first developed in the 1980s ...
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