molten salt thermal energy storage (TES). This paper describes the development of an engineering economic model that directly … compares the performance, cost, and profit of a 110-MW parabolic trough CSP plant operating with a TES system, natural gas … solar field area was selected to provide the lowest levelized cost of energy (LCOE). Using TES instead of a natural gas …

$ of ISCCS-67 capital cost supplied by the international environmental organizations such as Global Environmental …

This paper describes a low cost method for mass-production of parabolic surfaces with fibreglass. Cavities produced … longitudinal and transverse directions, to increase rigidity. This produces a low-cost high-rigidity structure that is an accurate … (mean value). The inside surface where the reflector is fixed is manufactured to a high degree of surface finish. The cost …

from the parabolic trough solar collector. This moderate temperature difference allows the use of low cost materials and … development works with a low charged pressure of 7 bar and uses air as a working fluid. The Beta-type Stirling engine is designed … performance on par with the high temperature operations with more simple and less costly development. …

allows predicting the levelized electricity cost (LEC) as a function of plant configuration and location. The results … indicate that the plants can produce dispatchable electricity at a cost that is competitive and inversely proportional to …