Solar Thermal Power Report - Market Research Report

Publication Date	January 2009
Publisher	ABS Energy Research
Product Type	Report
Pages	63
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	ABS00118

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Summary

Solar thermal energy is a relatively new technology which has already shown enormous promise.

It is a larger energy source than is commonly perceived. ST collectors have much more capacity and currently provide about half the energy generated from wind power and more than geothermal, solar PV and ocean energy combined. At the end of 2007 there was 93,000 MW of wind power, 148,000 MW of solar thermal collectors for water heating and building heating or cooling installed, but only 414 MW of high temperature solar thermal collector generating capacity and about 8,000 MW of solar PV capacity.

Report Scope

This report describes solar thermal energy technology in its various applications. Although ST power generation is probably more well known, ST collectors employ a much lower level of technology and convert far more of the sun's energy into useful heat. Perhaps least well known and in its infancy, but a technology of the future, is ST cooling. The report describes the various technologies: collectors, receivers, heat storage systems and energy conversion units. The two principal generation alternatives are outlined; STEGS, the original dedicated ST generating technology and ISCCS, in which solar thermal power is integrated with fossil fuel power. When ABS published the first report in this series we were of the view that power generation was the dominant partner in the technologies but we now rate the low temperature end of the market as very significant. The last two or three years have seen strides forward in all of these technologies and large power generation projects are being developed. The major direct use solar thermal markets - China, USA, Turkey, Germany and Japan are outlined and current market sizes provided. The low temperature end of the global solar thermal market is currently dominated by China, USA, Turkey, Germany and Japan. Israel is important for per capita use but relatively small in total. Between them, they have 75% of the global market for solar thermal collectors and ancillary equipment. The industry has been concentrated primarily on small-sale use to date, with large systems for commercial application to generate power now developing.

Key topics covered

The main technologies
The different components of the technologies
The development of solar thermal technology
The world market for direct use solar thermal appliances
Major direct use solar thermal profiles
The development of solar thermal power generation
Solar thermal power generation technology
The current status of solar thermal electricity generation
Costs and future cost development of STP solar thermal power

In this report the global solar thermal power market is detailed, analysed and discussed. This makes this report an excellent reference for those needing a reliable and detailed overview of this relatively new technology. National developments in solar generation and projects under development are listed with details in all countries where the technology is being developed.

Costs are reviewed and cost projections are shown from the major studies and the analysis which has been carried out.

Content

1. Executive Summary
- Technology, Costs and Benefits
- Global Solar Thermal Market
2. Development of Solar Thermal Technology
- Conditions of Use
- Solar Thermal Energy and The Environment
3. Solar Thermal Direct Use ??V Low and Medium Temperature Collectors Sales 2007
- Passive Solar Heating
- Geographical Distribution of Solar Thermal Installations
- China
- Products
- Applications
- Japan
- India
- Solar Thermal Power Plants
- Solar Pond Desalination Systems in Industrial Environment
- Solar Pond Desalination Systems for Drinking Water Supply
- Israel
- Turkey
- USA
4. Solar Thermal Cooling
- Cooling Technologies
- Open Cycles ??V Desiccant Cooling Systems
- Market Development
5. The Development Solar Thermal Power Generation
- A Brief History of The Development of Solar Thermal Generation Technology
6. Solar Thermal Power Generation Technology
- Concentrators and Receivers
- Parabolic Trough
- Mechanical Tracking
- Fresnel Principle Solar Collectors
- Parabolic Dish Systems
- Central Receiver Systems - Solar Tower
- Solar Chimney Power Plants
- Power Conversion System
- Rankine-Cycle Systems
- Isccs, Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Systems
- Peak Thermal-to-Electric Efficiency Can Exceed 70% for An Isccs Plant Compared to 50-55%
- for A Conventional Gas-Fired Combined Cycle Plant
- Thermal Storage Devices
7. Current Status of Solar Thermal Electricity Generation
- Large Scale Solar Thermal Electricity Generation
- Solar Thermal Projects under Construction or Approved for Construction
- Solar Trough
- India
- Morocco
- Egypt
- Mexico
- Greece
- Spain
- Israel
- Algeria
- Brazil
- Australia
- Iran
- South Africa
- Algeria
- USA
- Italy
- Solar Tower
- Spain
- Jordan
- Morocco
- Egypt
- Denmark
8. Costs of Stp Solar Thermal Power
- Commercialisation World Bank
- World Bank Plan Phase 1
- World Bank Plan Phase 2
- World Bank Plan Phase 3
- Sargent and Lundy Study
- Figure 8.1: Lec Levelised Energy Cost, Solar Trough and Tower Technology, 2004-2020
9. National Policies for Renewable Energy
- Renewable Energy Targets
- Feed-in Tariffs and Rps
- Eu and Feed-in Tariffs
- US and Rps
- The Feed-in Tariff in Europe
- The Evolution of Rps Policy in The United States
- Comparison of Feed-in Tariffs and Rps
- Europe ??V The Eu Renewable Energy Directive
- Investor Confidence, Price, and Policy Cost
- Effectiveness
- Innovation and Technology Diversity
- Ownership Structure
- Conclusion
- Feed-in Tariffs in The United States
- Figures
- Figure 2.1: Global Insolation Levels
- Figure 3.1: Solar Collector Sales and Installed Base, 2000 to 2007, Mw
- Figure 3.2: Leading Countries Sales of Solar Thermal Collectors, 2000 to 2007, Mw
- Figure 3.3: Leading Countries Installed Base of Solar Thermal Collectors, 2000 to 2007, Mw
- Figure 3.4: Installed Capacity of Solar Thermal Collectors in Major European Countries, Mw per
- Year, 2000-2007
- Figure 3.5: Market Shares of Solar Thermal Product Types in China, 2000
- Figure 3.6: Swh Systems on The Roofs of Chinese Buildings
- Figure 3.7: Advertisement for The Climax Solar-Water Heater in 1891
- Figure 3.8: Climax Solar Water Heater in The US, 1896
- Figure 3.9: Early Solar Thermal Roof Panels
- Figure 6.1: Parabolic Trough
- Figure 6.2: Side View of A Eurotrough Et150 Collector Unit (150m Length)
- Figure 7.1: Regions Developing Solar Thermal Projects
- Figure 8.1: Lec Levelised Energy Cost, Solar Trough and Tower Technology, 2004-2020
- Table 5.1: Early Solar Thermal Power Plants
- Table 6.1: Comparison of Solar Thermal Power Technologies
- Table 8.1: Cost of Parabolic Trough Stpp in Recent Feasibility Studies
- Table 8.2: Estimated Cost of Central Receiver Stpp in $/Kw
- Table 8.3: Estimated Current US Cost and Performance of Conventional Power Plants
- Table 8.4: Required Investment in Stp by Phase