RenewableS 2013 GlObal STaTUS RePORT - REN21

7 Technology dominates from Protermosolar (the Spanish Solar
Thermal Electricity Industry Association), “Localización de
centrales solares termoélectricas en España,” April 2012, at www.
protermosolar.com/boletines/23/Mapa.pdf; the Puerto Errado II
(30 MW) Linear Fresnel Plant came into operation in late 2012,
per Beatriz Gonzalez, “Makkah Announces $640m Solar Energy
Project,” in CSP Today, Weekly Intelligence Brief, 1–8 October
2012; world’s first from “TÜV Rheinland examines Puerto Errado 2
plant,” in CSP Today, Weekly Intelligence Brief, 19–26 November
2012.
8 A 22.5 MW parabolic trough capacity combined with biomass
boilers, per “World’s first hybrid CSP-Biomass plant comes
on-line,” CSP-World.com, 13 December 2012. In addition, a
commercial-scale pilot hybrid solar power tower-natural gas plant
began operating in 2012, per “SOLUGAS, a new hybrid solar-gas
demonstration facility comes on-line,” CSP-World.com, 27 June
2012.
9 Protermosolar estimates that policy changes will reduce expected
revenues by 33%, per “International Investment Funds to Take
Spain to International Courts,” CSP-World.com, 18 February 2013.
10 SEIA, op. cit. note 1; Morse, op. cit. note 1.
11 No new capacity added and more than 1,300 MW (1,317 MW)
from SEIA, op. cit. note 1; all due on line from Morse, op. cit.
note 1, and from SEIA and GTM Research, Solar Market Insight
Report Q3 (Washington, DC: 2012). Plants with about 1,200 MW
of capacity were under construction at the end of 2012, per CSP
World, “CSP 2012, A Review,” January 2013, at www.csp-world.
com.
12 Estimate of 75% complete from Ivanpah Solar, “Ivanpah Team
Installs 100,000th Heliostat,” 28 December 2012, at http://
ivanpahsolar.com; 140,000 homes from BrightSource Energy,
“Ivanpah Project Overview,” www.brightsourceenergy.com/
ivanpah-solar-project, viewed 7 March 2013.
13 SEIA and GTM Research, op. cit. note 11; “Abengoa’s 280 MW
Solana Project 80% Complete,” in CSP Today, Weekly Intelligence
Brief, 26 November–2 December 2012. This plant will have six
hours of molten salt thermal energy storage, per Abengoa Solar,
“Solana, The Largest Solar Power Plant in the World,” www.
abengoasolar.com/web/en/nuestras_plantas/plantas_en_construccion/estados_unidos#seccion_1,
viewed 13 March 2013.
14 The Liddell plant, in New South Wales, first became operational
in 2004 with 1 MW electric capacity and was expanded to 9 MW th
by 2008 by Areva Solar; Novatec Solar expanded the plant with
another 9.3 MW th
, which was completed in 2012, from “Liddell
Solar Thermal Station,” op. cit. note 1, and from Novatec Solar,
op. cit. note 1. There is conflicting information about how much
of this capacity is electric versus thermal, with one source saying
that there are 6 MW of power capacity and 18 MW th , per Keith
Lovegrove et al., “Realising the Potential of Concentrating Solar
Power in Australia – Summary for Stakeholders,” prepared by IT
Power (Australia) PTY LTD for the Australian Solar Institute, May
2012. It is expected that the Chilean plant will substitute more
than 55% of the diesel fuel that was previously used for the copper
electro-extraction process at the mine, per Abengoa Solar, op. cit.
note 1. The plant was inaugurated in November 2012, per Chilean
Ministry of Energy, op. cit. note 1.
15 Abengoa Solar, op. cit. note 1; New Energy Algeria, op. cit. note
1; Egypt’s 20 MW CSP El Kuraymat hybrid plant began operating
in December 2010, from Fuchs, op. cit. note 1, and from “A
newly commissioned...,” op. cit. note 1; Ain Beni Mathar began
generating electricity for the Moroccan grid in late 2010, from
World Bank, op. cit. note 1, and from Moroccan Office Nationale
de l’Électricité, op. cit. note 1; TSE 1 began operation in Thailand
in late 2011, per “Concentrating Solar Power: Thai Solar Energy
Completes Nation’s First CSP Plant,” SolarServer.com, 7
December 2011.
16 Plants include China (about 2.5 MW), France (at least 0.75 MW),
Germany (1.5 MW), India (as much as 5.5 MW), Israel (6 MW),
Italy (5 MW), and South Korea (0.2 MW). China’s Beijing Badaling
Solar Tower plant, with 1–1.5 MW capacity (depending on the
source), began operating in 2012, per “China’s first megawatt-size
power tower is complete and operational,” CSP-World.com, 30
August 2012; China information also from the following sources:
CSP World, “Yanqing Solar Thermal Power (Dahan Tower Plant),”
www.csp-world.com/cspworldmap/yanqing-solar-thermal-powerdahan-tower-plant;
“Hainan, China builds second concentrating
solar project,” GreenProspectsAsia.com, 2 November 2012 (has
1.5 MW); NREL, “Beijing Badaling Solar Tower,” SolarPaces,
www.nrel.gov/csp/solarpaces/project_detail.cfm/projectID=253,
updated 12 February 2013; Dong Chunlei, “Mirror: By Sunlight
Producing Green Electricity,” Xinmin Evening News, 29 July 2010,
at www.e-cubetech.com/News_show.asp?Sortid=30&ID=204
(using Google Translate); France’s capacity includes two small
Fresnel pilot plants (totaling