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Several national and regional governments have implemented incentive programs to promote CSP deployment around the world. These public promotion schemes have been the main driver of CSP deployment. Although Spain and USA have been the main leaders, other countries have recently emerged and have a presence in the CSP market and still others can be expected to be so in the future. This section provides a discussion of the promotion policies which have been used to encourage the uptake of CSP from selected countries from around the world. These countries represent around 99% of total CSP capacity currently being deployed.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    ¥1 = $0.13 (as of Dec 27, 2018).

  2. 2.

    Over 80% of the total oil requirement in India is imported.

  3. 3.

    In addition, power is not used efficiently since the electricity price does not cover production costs and the conversion efficiency of Indian power plants is quite low (the average gross efficiency of thermal power plants is about 30%) [32].

  4. 4.

    See del Río and Mir-Artigues [12] for a detailed analysis of the design and functioning of the auctions for CSP in Morocco.

  5. 5.

    Madrid 13 and 14 of November 2018. Available at https://events.newenergyupdate.com/csp.

  6. 6.

    One hundred fils = 1 AED = 0.24.

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  1. Energy Sustainability Research Group, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Pere Mir-Artigues

  2. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Institute for Public Policies and Goods, Madrid, Spain

    Pablo del Río

  3. Energy Systems Analysis Unit, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT), Madrid, Spain

    Natàlia Caldés

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Mir-Artigues, P., del Río, P., Caldés, N. (2019). Public Support Schemes for the Deployment of Plants. In: The Economics and Policy of Concentrating Solar Power Generation. Green Energy and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11938-6_6

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