In January 2021, the World Bank, IRENA and the Climate Investment Funds, released a new updated report on CSP and made a presentation to the global industry.
Both the report and the presentation can be found at the following link:
WB-IRENA REPORT
The main points of this report are two:
- CSP can be the most efficient solution for regions with high DNI resource, towards the path of a 100% green, sustainable and net zero carbon emission power grid system.
- To achieve this target, CSP technologies need:
- To reach levels of LCOE close to PV and Wind. (Report Chapter 2.3 & presentation, slides 9 to 11)
- The efficiency improvements that will reduce the cost significantly are expected to come from “High-Temperature Molten Salts” technologies, which the report claims that they are still in the very early stages of R&D and will need some years to hit the market. (presentation slide 6)
The SolarDish® technology aims exactly towards these two targets.
