Open AccessConcentrating Solar Power Program overview
Publication year - 1998
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/658296
Subject(s) - power station , electricity generation , natural gas , engineering , process engineering , cogeneration , electricity , procurement , power (physics) , waste management , environmental science , electrical engineering , business , physics , quantum mechanics , marketing
Over the last decade, the US solar thermal industry has established a track record in the power industry by building and operating utility-scale power plants with a combined rated capacity of 354 megawatts (MW). The technology used in these power plants is based on years of research and development (R and D), much of it sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE). DOE`s Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Program is collaborating with its partners in the private sector to develop two new solar technologies -- power towers and dish/engines -- to meet the huge commercial potential for solar power