Rock bed thermal storage: Concepts and costs

Thermal storage enables concentrating solar power (CSP) plants to provide baseload or dispatchable power. Currently CSP plants use two-tank molten salt thermal storage, with estimated capital costs of about 22-30 $/kWhth. In the interests of reducing CSP costs, alternative storage concepts have been...

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Hauptverfasser:	Allen, Kenneth, von Backström, Theodor, Joubert, Eugene, Gauché, Paul
Format:	Tagungsbericht
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Capital costs Containment Cost analysis Cost estimates Molten salts Rock beds Thermal energy Thermal storage
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