The CSP industry peers are happy to see the fast growing capacity of global CSP projects especially starting from last year 2018, and a continuous expanding is expected this year thanks to the contribution from China and Middle East & Africa.
However, "high cost" is always a question for CSP revolution, in the Survey launched by CSP Focus earlier, most of the industry players agree that we should expand CSP capacity to realize better scale effect, and at the same time devote more on R&D to get technological breakthrough.
Innovative engineering, O&M and system optimization have helped global concentrated solar power (CSP) to boom in recent years.
DEWA’s NOOR Energy 1 hybrid solar plant is designed to utilize the lasted Space Tube collector, which is designed by Abengoa with 8.2m aperture;
Stellio heliostat, designed by sbp, will be firstly used on commercial Hami 50MW molten salt tower CSP plant in West China;
The new collector Ultimate Trough has been successfully used in Saudi’s Duba1 ISCC project…
Regarding commissioning and O&M, new tries on detecting solar field performance by UAV, and novel inspection, and control strategy for solar field and tower aiming are introduced in the latest CSP projects.
Various innovative components like higher temperature heat receiver, novel solar collector system with higher reflectivity, thermodynamic cycle system with higher efficiency are demonstrating future CSP development trend.
Moreover, creative engineering and application modes also are needed for further exploration.
