Concentrated Solar Power Global Market Initiative
Background
Technologies
Contacts
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The objective of the GMI is to facilitate and expedite the building of 5,000 MWe of CSP worldwide over the next ten years. This initiative represents the world’s largest, coordinated action in history for the deployment of solar electricity.
Background
Two international executive conferences have
been held to address the barriers to current and
future CSP project opportunities and to expand
the global market for CSP. The First International
Executive Conference on Concentrating Solar
Power held June 2002 in Berlin, Germany, and
was sponsored by the United Nations Environment
Programme, the GEF, the German Federal
Ministry for the Environment (BMU), the KfW
Group, the European Solar Thermal Power
Industry Association (ESTIA) and the American
Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). The
conference participants discussed a Global Market
Initiative for CSP and defined strategies for facilitating
the rapid, large-scale market introduction
of this technology. This strategy, published as the
Declaration of Berlin, was registered in Johannesburg
as a UNEP Market Facilitation WSSD Type-II
Public Private Partnership for Concentrating Solar
Power Technologies.
Following the Berlin event, two regional working
groups were formed to develop approaches to
facilitate regional CSP markets. The Second International
Executive Conference on Expanding the
Market for Concentrating Solar Power was held in
October 2003 in Palm Springs, at the invitation
of the Governor of California. At this event, the
California Energy Commission, the US Department
of Energy and the IEA SolarPACES Implementing
Agreement joined the sponsors of the
Berlin conference to finalize and launch the CSP
Global Market Initiative (GMI).
Technologies
Solar thermal power generation using concentrating collectors, commonly referred to as concentrating solar power (CSP), involves the conversion of solar radiation to thermal energy, which is then used to run a conventional power system. Solar thermal is a viable alternative to conventional energy systems and, depending on the particular technology, is suited to either distributed generation on the kW scale or to centralized power generation on scales up to several hundred MW. CSP systems use parabolic trough concentrating collectors, power tower/heliostat configurations, and parabolic dish collectors. An alternative system that uses Fresnel concentrators is under development. Parabolic trough, power tower and Fresnel systems typically run conventional power units, such as steam turbines. Parabolic dish systems power a small heat engine at the focal point of the collector.
For further information please download the brochure or contact one of the interim management team below:
Contacts
| Rainer Aringhoff Secretary General ESTIA European Solar Thermal Power Industry Association c/o Solar Millennium AG Naegelsbachstr. 40 D-91052 Erlangen Tel.: +49 (0) 9131 94 09 0 Fax: +49 (0) 9131 94 09 111 aringhoff@solarmillennium.de |
Dr. Michael Geyer Executive Secretary of the IEA SolarPACES Avenida de la Paz 51 E-04720 Aguadulce Spain Tel.: +34 - 950 34 98 46 Fax.: +34 - 950 34 31 12 exsec@solarpaces.org www.solarpaces.org |
Frederick H. Morse Chairman SEIA U.S. Solar Energy Industries Association Solar Thermal Power Division 1808 Corcoran Street, NW Washington, DC 20009 USA Tel.: +1 -202-483-2393 Fax: +1 -202-265-2248 fredmorse@MorseAssociatesInc.com |