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Solar Thermal Power Plants

Solar energy is the most abundant form of energy on earth. This is true not only in relation to its geographic distribution but also with regards to the total energy being available.

When talking about solar energy central Europeans often only think about photovoltaic systems and solar water heating. But there is a third possibility further south: solar thermal electricity generation.

The recently in June 2005 commissioned report for the World Bank „Assessment of the World Bank / GEF Strategy for the Market Development of Concentrating Solar Thermal Power“ is pointing out a couple of advantages of solar thermal power with respect to other renewable energies and photovoltaic systems:

• Good opportunity to integrate with and utilize existing conventional power plant technologies due to their thermodynamic process character
• Solar thermal power is dispatchable as usually much less stochastic than e.g. wind energy, and in connection with a thermal storage system load matching can be done
• Large available resources especially in developing countries enable high economic growth especially in those countries with backlog
• High maturity of technology possesses the potential to quickly install climate protection projects with large emission savings while the technical risk remains limited

All these are excellent reasons to help solar thermal power plants to its breakthrough.
But we are not only focusing on large pure solar power plants. Especially in the next years to come we favour small decentral mini solar thermal power plants (MSTPPs) and solar add-ons for conventional power plants. The technological base for this is the robust and simple linear fresnel collector producing saturated steam.

We want solar thermal electricity generation technologies to become a standard option for the power supply of solar rich regions of the world.
We gladly offer our support and our services for the evaluation and realization of your ideas for your solar thermal power generation project.