Innovative components and/or sub-systems for CSP plants and/or concentrating solar thermal installations

Expected Outcome:

Concentrating solar thermal technologies supply renewable, dispatchable energy and can therefore be an important element of the evolving energy system. Project results are expected to contribute to some of the following expected outcomes:

• Higher shares of variable output renewables in the energy system.
• Higher efficiency of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants and/or concentrating solar thermal installations.
• Reduced operation and maintenance costs of CSP plants and/or concentrating solar thermal installations.
• Achievement of the targets of the SET Plan Initiative for Global Leadership in CSP.

Scope:

Support will be given to the demonstration of innovative, cost effective and more reliable components and/or sub-systems for CSP plants and/or concentrating solar thermal installations. The components and/or sub-systems will allow better efficiency in terms of solar energy conversion.

The demonstration should span a continuous interval of at least six months covering all possible incidence angles of the direct solar radiation.

Projects are expected to assess the sustainability of the proposed components and/or sub-systems in environmental, social and economic terms.

All demonstrators should be fully and transparently documented, to ensure replicability, up-scaling and to assist future planning decisions.

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