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With its inherent dispatchability and storage capabilities, CSP can become a cost-competitive renewable energy source, but design optimizations and accurate economic
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Abstract A techno-economic assessment of a 100 MW e concentrated solar power (CSP) plant with 8 h thermal energy storage (TES) capacity is presented, in order to evaluate
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This is because more hours of operation spread the fixed capital costs over increased electricity production, reducing the levelized cost of electricity (LCoE). Capacity factors are determined by properties of the solar resource including the direct normal irradiance (DNI) and daily/seasonal profile, power block reliability, and inclusion of TES.
The final annual expense is the land lease. Solar PV projects typically rent, rather than purchase, the land for the project; therefore, it is an operating expense and not a capital cost.
Concentrating solar power (CSP), when integrated with thermal energy storage (TES), can address both intermittency and storage needs by providing dispatchable renewable electricity.
The thermal energy storage system is the main driver for the high flexibility of CSP systems. Primarily due to the stochasticity of the solar resource, CSP plants without storage operate with capacity factors in the range of 22–28 %, depending on technology and location .
As the solar PV industry has been subject to volatile pricing, labor challenges, and being restricted to difficult land, the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contractors and developers have also been bearing more contingency and overhead, further increasing a solar project’s overall cost.
Global weighted average electricity capacity factors for CSP plants rose 66 % from 2011 to 2021. Global weighted average LCoE for CSP fell 68 % from $0.31/kWh in 2010 to $0.10/kWh in 2022. Capital costs for CSP fell 50 % in the last decade to $3000–11000/kW. Adding 6–15 h of thermal storage at $20–60/kW is now considered economical.
