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CSP WORLD MAP OF POWER STATIONS Parabolic trough collectors will continue to dominate the CSP market over the coming years. Photo: Jan Gesthuizen First gigawatt exceeded The electrical capacity of the solar thermal power 1,800 MW was in the construction phase. This figure has risen to almost 2,300 MW this year. This repre- stations installed worldwide has exceeded one gigawatt. sents growth of a good 27 %, which is also a consid- The second gigawatt should be achieved fairly soon as erable increment. Since 440 MW of the projects that were under construction last year have now been put well. into operation, this means that the construction of ince SUN & WIND ENERGY published the first power stations with a capacity of 940 MW has been worldwide overview of solar thermal power started since the last survey. Correspondingly, Sstations last year, quite a lot has happened in projects with a capacity of 1,360 MW have been un- this sector. As we predicted back then, a true CSP der construction for at least a year. But there is no boom has set in. Last year the overview showed 147 reason to draw any negative conclusions from this as power station locations in 14 countries, whereas we commercial solar thermal power stations are almost can present 194 power stations in 24 countries on always big projects. Their construction period can this year’s map. thus easily last two to three years. But the figures re- The vigorous growth is demonstrated particularly veal that the capacity installed worldwide will rise to clearly by the installed capacity of CSP stations. In over 2 GW within two years at the latest. May 2010, a considerable 820 MW were already The figures for this project phase show that para- connected to the grid, but by May of this year, the bolic trough power stations will continue to be the figure had risen to almost 1,260 MW. This growth of standard technology in the medium term. With 53 % within one year is higher than the growth rate 1,826 MW, over 80 % of the projects in the construc- of any other form of renewable energy. As in the past, tion phase are solar trough power stations (2010: most of the power stations in operation are based on 97 %). In absolute figures, this is almost the same parabolic trough collectors. With a capacity of just figure as last year (1,760 MW), but in relative terms it under 1,200 MW, they account for over 95 % of the is a strong decline of 17 %. The reason for this devel- power station capacity. This share is even slightly opment is that tower power stations with a total ca- higher than last year, when it was 94 %. The changes pacity of 423 MW are now under construction, which for the other power station types are corresponding- is over 400 MW more than last year. The American so- ly marginal or non-existent. lar power station developer BrightSource Energy is If the power station projects under construction primarily responsible for this; the company has start- are considered, a substantial increase is evident as ed building the three Ivanpah power stations in the well. Twelve months ago, a capacity of about Californian Mojave Desert. Taken together, these 92 Sun & Wind Energy 6/2011 power stations alone account for a capacity of Fig. 1: CSP plants in operationOperational 392 MW. Fresnel power plants and dish systems do not show any significant change in the project phase Fresnel; 9,40 Dish; 1,96 either and will thus remain a side issue for the time Tower 44 MW Fresnel 9.40 MW Dish 1.96 MW being. Tower; 44 Meanwhile, the category of power stations in the planning stage has grown by an impressive 94 % to Parabol 28.2 GW. There is, however, some uncertainty regard- Tower ing this figure. SUN & WIND ENERGY considers only Fresnel those power stations as planned for which the location Parabolic 1,201 MW Dish and the technology to be used are already known, i.e. for which a certain minimum level of preparation seems to have taken place. If pure declarations of intent were considered as well, several gigawatts could be added. But this figure is not really a conservative estimate either. For a large number of projects, it is unclear how Fig. 2: CSP plants underParabol constructionconstruction 1.201 far they are from realization, and the lead time for large- scale projects can sometimes be very long. In any case, Tower; 423 Fresnel; 32,50 Dish; 1,01 Parabol; 1.826 the high number indicates that the sector is actively try- Tower 423 MW Fresnel 32.50 MW Dish 1.01 MW ing to maintain a high growth rate. Spain in solar fever Spain is still the largest market for CSP stations. At Parabolic 1,826 MW present, over 730 MW are connected to the grid, more than 1,200 MW are under construction and almost 900 MW are in the planning stage. The size of this market is no coincidence. At about 27 €-ct/kWh over 20 years, the feed-in tariff is very generous. The only thing one might be surprised about is the fairly small number of power stations in the planning phase. This, Fig. 3: Planned CSP plants however, is due to the fact that the currently valid reg- planed ulations allow only those power stations to be built Fresnel; 583 that have already obtained pre-registration. New reg- Tower; 4.491 Dish; 1.092 istrations are not being accepted. Hence, it is current- Tower 4,491 MW Fresnel 583 MW Dish 1,092 MW ly impossible to initiate new projects. This regulation, however, will expire in 2013, and the industry is al- ready engaged in negotiations with the government for the time thereafter. One thing is certain: the feed- Parabolic 22,014 MW in tariff will be reduced. Last year, when funds for vir- tually all types of renewable energy were cut back, the CSP sector got away without severe cuts. This honey- moon period is surely to be finished in 2013. This is certainly the right thing in order to maintain the devel- Parabol; 22.014 opment pressure on the industry, and due to the tech- nical progress and the experience gained in recent thermal power stations with a capacity of 451 MW years the sector will be able to cope with moderate are currently connected to the grid, which is hardly cuts. The CSP industry will have a great interest in the any more than a year ago. The figure will probably re- abolishment of the size limit of 50 MW per power sta- main in this order of magnitude for quite a while, al- tion. According to calculations by the agency A.T. though more than 886 MW are currently under con- Kearney from the year 2010, a tenfold increase in ca- struction. The bulk of this capacity, however, is due pacity results in cost reductions of 21 to 24 % due to to two especially big projects: firstly, the aforemen- economies of scale. The follow-up regulation in Spain tioned tower power station Ivanpah, and secondly will probably not envisage power stations of such a the parabolic trough power plant Blythe from Solar large size, but even doubling the capacity per power Millennium with a capacity of 484 MW. Both projects plant can yield a cost advantage of 6 to 17 %. have been in the construction phase only for a short time. For both, it is planned to connect the first pow- Big projects and big problems er station block to the grid in 2013 and the second, in the USA and in the case of Ivanpah also the third, by 2014. All the other projects, except for a micro-CSP project on The USA is the world’s second-largest market, with Hawaii, are only demonstration projects. But there the south-west being particularly active. Here, solar are also many large-scale projects in California that Sun & Wind Energy 6/2011 93 CSP WORLD MAP OF POWER STATIONS Jülich Power Tower 1.5 MW EuroDish Eibelstadt 0.01 MW Yulin Alternative EuroDish Themis Solar Energy Park Odeillo Power Tower 1.4 MW 92 MW 0.01 MW Badaling Tower Cameo coal-fired Alba Nova 34 MW 1 MW hybrid project 4 MW Ter mosolar Borges 22 MW Enolia crete 50 MW San Luis Valley 200 MW AlSol Nur Energie Tower 38 MW Himin Solar see map Saguache Solar Energy 145 MW 2 MW Enolia Shiraz Solar Thermal Factory 2.5 MW next page Archimede cyprus 50 MW Power Plant 0.5 MW Santa Teresa New Mexico Sun Tower 92 MW 4.72 MW Western Ranch Solar 27 MW ISCC Hassi R'Mel SEDC 5 MW Reliance Lanco Solar 100 MW Eckerd College 0.003 MW Moroco Power 100 MW Thermosolar Kuraymat Godavari Power 50 MW 22 MW 20 MW JOAN1 Rajasthan Solar Martin Next Generation 20 MW 100 MW Acme Bikanar Tower 10 MW Energy Centre 75 MW One 10 MW KSK Energy 100 MW Shams One Aurum Renewables 20 MW Holaniku at Keahole Point 0.1 MW 100 MW Keahole Solar Power 5 MW Megha Engineering Solar Euromed 150 MW Plant 50 MW Solar Euromed 100 MW Kanchanaburi 5 MW Suphamburi 9 MW EuroDish Vellore 0.01 MW Collinsville Power Mejillones 1 MW Station 150 MW Spain / Portugal Kogan Creek Solar Boost 44 MW Eskom Concentrated Pilot World map of solar La Florida 50 MW Solar Power project 100 MW clinic Lake Cargelligo Lidell Solar Central Solar Termo- 0.003 MW thermal power stations 3 MW eléctrica Cáceres 50 MW Majadas 50 MW La Risca 50 MW Thermal Station Whyalla Solar 3 MW Titan Tracker 0.02 MW 194 power stations in 24 countries Oasis 40 MW Solaben 2+3 2x50 MW Big Dish Solaben 1+6 2x50 MW Manchasol 1 50 MW Publisher: Sun & Wind Energy, www.sunwindenergy.com 0.32 MW Ter mosol II 50 MW Manchasol 2 50 MW Ter mosol I 50 MW ASTE 1A+1B 2x50 MW Layout: Eilers-Media, www.eilers-media.de La Dehesa 50 MW Helios I+II 2x50 MW Date: May 2011 Almadén 20 MW Sources: Company data, own research Astexol 2 50 MW Pl.

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