Wagner, Sharon J.; Rubin, Edward S. - In: Renewable Energy 61 (2014) C, pp. 81-95
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 …