SolarPACES Member Country: ExCo Representative, Vice-Chair Zhifeng Wang Head of Solar Thermal Energy and Photovoltaic Systems Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science zhifeng(at)vip.sina.com ExCo Alternate Sun Honghang Vice Director Divison of...
Latest Online: 2015 Crescent Dunes: 110 MW SolarPACES-NREL database: All plant details on this CSP project 110 MW Crescent Dunes, tower CSP with 10 hours of storage, operational 2015-2019, and since 2021 Latest CSP in Development Sandia Gen-3 Particle-based CSP...
Latest in Construction: 2023 Redstone Tower CSP: 100 MW SolarPACES-NREL database: All plant details on this CSP project All CSP Projects: SolarPACES-NREL database - All projects in South Africa CSP Potential South Africa's first solar tower plant: 50 MW Khi Solar 1...
Latest Online: 2018 Ouarzazate NOOR I,II and III: 550 MW SolarPACES-NREL database: All plant details on this CSP project: NOOR I, NOOR II, and NOOR III Earliest Online: ISCC 20 MW inaugurated in 2013: Ain Beni Mathur CSP Potential Country data Morocco has set a target...
Latest in Development: 2023 Vast Solar 30 MW CST (solar fuels production) Latest Online: 2016 Sundrop Farms 36 MW CST: SolarPACES-NREL database: All plant details on this CSP project The Sundrop project uses tower CSP for onsite greenhouse agricultural production...
CSP is best suited to the regions with the optimal Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI) for CSP. The best DNI is found in high-insolation regions with clear air, free of particulates, that receive this solar irradiance at or above about 1800 kilowatt-hours per square...
Browse all CSP Projects: detailed up-to-date data on all CSP projects globally: SolarPACES – NREL database View full size map: SolarPACES working with each of its member countries, acquires this data on concentrating solar power projects, that are under construction,...
All concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies use a mirror configuration to concentrate the sun’s light energy onto a receiver and convert it into heat. The heat can then be used to create steam to drive a turbine to produce electrical power or used as industrial...
Operating Agent: Mike Wagner, University of Wisconsin, USA Published Task Reports Full paper (pdf): SolarPACES Guideline for Bankable STE Yield Assessment Version 2017 Full paper (pdf) Utility-Scale Parabolic Trough Solar Systems: Performance Acceptance Test...
SolarPACES (Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems) SolarPACES is one of several Technology Collaboration Programmes (TCP) organized in a framework of the International Energy Agency (IEA). It operates as an international network of stakeholders, mostly research...
Latest In:
