Concentrated solar power

Concentrated solar power

Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems use lenses or mirrors A6615SED and tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight into a small beam. The concentrated heat is then used as a heat source for a conventional u1560 power plant. A wide range of concentrating technologies exists; the most developed are the parabolic trough, the concentrating linear fresnel reflector, the Stirling dish and the solar d1703L power tower. Various techniques are used to track the Sun and focus light. In all of these systems a working fluid is heated by the concentrated sunlight, and is then used for power generation or energy 2sc3856 storage.Commercial CSP plants were first developed in the 1980s, and the 354 MW SEGS CSP installation is the largest solar power plant in the world and is located in the Mojave Desert of California. Other large CSP plants SD1407 include the Solnova Solar Power Station (150 MW) and the Andasol solar power station (100 MW), both in Spain. The 97 MW Sarnia Photovoltaic Power Plant in Canada, is the world's largest photovoltaic plant.