Technology Focus: Solar Thermal Electricity Generation

Jenny Chase

Chapter 17 in Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon, 2019, pp 123-129 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Chapter 10 detailed how, in a normal power market, simultaneous power supply, demand and the cost of generating a marginal MWh sets the price of power. Generally in hot countries, peak power demand is in the daytime for air conditioning, but continues well into the late afternoon and into evening when the outside temperature is still high and people come home to cook dinner. This load is not well served by photovoltaics, the output of which drops sharply in the late afternoon as the sun gets low…

Keywords: Climate Change; Energy Economics; Solar Power; Renewable Resources; Sustainable Technology; Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G20 G30 Q01 Q40 Q43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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