In hybrid plants, the solar energy can be used to reduce fossil fuel usage or boost the power input to the steam turbine. Today, many areas of the developing world like India, Egypt and South Africa, are in need of new peaking and intermediate power sources and these locations are ideally suited for power tower development.
Solar tower power plants are large-scale setups, making them perfectly suitable for commercial applications. Among the most notable solar tower plants, one of the biggest solar towers produces 650 GWh of energy per year. In addition to commercial applications, there have been numerous attempts to use them for other innovative applications as well.
Fig. 10. Operation modes of a solar tower plant. mode 3: solar-only operation; when the storage is fully charged, part of the available power is dumped (by defocusing an appropriate number of heliostats), mode 4: toward sunset, solar thermal power is decreasing, and additional power is delivered from storage, and
In summary, the power tower concentrating solar power plant, at the heart of which lies the heliostat, is a very promising area of renewable energy. Benefits include high optical concentration ratios and operating temperatures, corresponding to high efficiency, and an ability to easily incorporate thermal energy storage.
All the issues commented above make solar power towers, among other concentrated solar power technologies, a promising technology with commercial possibilities in the mid term. Better performance and cheaper electricity compared with other options seems within reach.
The overall capacity of under construction and development solar power towers reached around 5383 MWh e in 2019, with an average power capacity of 207 MWh e . The reason of that growth is the capacity of SPT to achieve higher temperatures in comparison to PTC and, thus, greater solar to electric efficiencies .
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