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Solar Power for the World
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Solar Power for the World

by Wolfgang Palz
October 2013
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
800 pages
22h 43m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Solar Power for the World
Basics for a New Solar Age 119
Figure 2.3 A heliostat at Eurhelios and W. Palz, project leader, 1979.
Figure 2.4 W. Palz at a 50-MW solar thermal power plant with “mirror
trough” concentrators at Puertollano, Spain, October 2009.
120 Solar Power for the World
CSP for electricity generation from the Sun cannot, in general,
compete with PV. Unlike PV, CSP technology is strictly limited to
deployment in “clear-sky” regions, and it only comes in multi-
MW units. PV can also be built in large area units and in hot
climates, but it is not restricted to this ...
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ISBN: 9789814411875