Abstract
CSP is a dispatchable renewable electricity technology which might contribute substantially to a sustainable energy transition everywhere, in tandem with an increasing penetration of variable renewable energy technologies.
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Another important use of CSP to be considered is desalination.
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Promotion of renewable electricity generation in the State of South Australia includes the indicated solar tower and, among other milestones, a 100-MW (129 MWh) battery. This is the largest in the world so far.
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It should be taken into account that the PV sector is a source of spectacular news. For example, [1] explain that some improvements in metal halide perovskites cells have increased their performance to 21.5%. This could lead to a cost of the kWh in a utility-scale PV plant of €cents ~1.5.
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The cost of hybridization should be added. However, it has been ignored for reasons of simplicity and because it seems plausible to assume the existence of CSP plants in the future with only solar operation all hours of the year.
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Maybe increased transmission cost could partially by offset by larger scope projects (which take advantage of economies of scale) far away from any urban and/or industrial area, that is, where there are no problems of space availability.
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Mir-Artigues, P., del Río, P., Caldés, N. (2019). Summing Up. 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_7
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