A record-breaking solar thermal plant is shutting down after 12 years, and the reason exposes the dark side of concentrated sunlight

Ivanpah was supposed to be one of the clearest symbols of America’s clean-energy future. Rising out of the Mojave Desert, the ...
Nature

Concentrated Solar Power Technology and Performance Evaluation

Concentrated solar power (CSP) systems harness high‐flux solar radiation by means of optical concentrators—such as parabolic troughs, linear Fresnel arrays, central towers or parabolic dishes—to heat ...
PV Tech

China’s largest PV-CSP hybrid project enters commercial operation

The CTG Hami Solar Thermal Project combines 100MW of concentrated solar power and 900MW of PV. Image: China Three Gorges Corporation. China’s largest linear Fresnel concentrated solar power (CSP) ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Letter Report: Critique of the Sargent and Lundy Assessment of Concentrating Solar Power Cost and Performance Forecasts

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pv magazine International

California’s Ivanpah CSP closure shows tech shift, not solar decline

Headlines have been circulating major news outlets around the impending closure of the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, a $2.2 billion project that began construction in 2010 and has been providing ...