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What is molten salt storage in concentrating solar power plants?

At the end of 2019 the worldwide power generation capacity from molten salt storage in concentrating solar power (CSP) plants was 21 GWh el. This article gives an overview of molten salt storage in CSP and new potential fields for decarbonization such as industrial processes, conventional power plants and electrical energy storage.

How much power does molten salt tower produce?

However, it still achieved the complete annual cumulative power generation of 158GWh, and became the first Molten Salt Tower CSP Plant in the world whose annual actual power generation exceeded the annual designed power generation.

How many GWh molten salt tower CSP plant?

158GWh! SUPCON SOLAR Delingha 50MW Molten Salt Tower CSP Plant exceeded the designed production

Is molten salt cheaper than a solar PV farm?

Mehos bases his belief on prices that SolarReserve and other project developers are quoting for electricity from new plants, and the knowledge that a CSP tower with eight or 10 hours of molten salt storage is currently much cheaper than a solar PV farm with an equivalent amount of lithium-ion batteries.

Which molten salts should be used in CSP power tower systems?

The work is mainly related to nitrate-nitrite mixtures 3, 9, 11 - 15, but also some work for chlorides exists 16, 17. Mainly related to the CSP power tower systems molten salts with higher operation temperature would be favorable.

Who is supcon solar?

Though Supcon Solar was one of China’s first enterprises dedicated to the research and industrialization of CSP technology, it had previously built only one other project, a 10-MW tower project at the proposed Qinghai site, which it completed in 2013 and outfitted with a molten salt system in 2016.