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World Installed Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Capacity, 1980-2007, with Projection for 2012 (table)

World Cumulative Installed Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Capacity, 1980-2007 (figure)

World Cumulative Installed Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Capacity, 1980-2007, with Projection for 2012 (figure)

World Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Plants Greater than 10 Megawatts and in Operation as of June 2008 (table)

World's Top Ten Largest Proposed Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Projects as of June 2008 (table)

Select World List of Proposed Solar Thermal Power Projects by Power Capacity (table)

Countries Developing Concentrating Solar Thermal Power as of June 2008 (map)

Land Area in Algeria Required to Meet Electricity Demand for the World and the European Union with Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (map)


World Installed Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Capacity, 1980-2007, with Projection for 2012
Year
Net Annual Addition 1
Cumulative Installed Capacity 2

Megawatts
Megawatts
1980
1
1
1981
2
3
1982
10
13
1983
4
17
1984
1
17
1985
16
33
1986
28
61
1987
58
119
1988
30
149
1989
50
199
1990
75
274
1991
80
354
1992
3
356
1993
0
356
1994
0
356
1995
0
356
1996
10
366
1997
0
366
1998
0
366
1999
0
366
2000
-10
356
2001
0
356
2002
0
356
2003
0
356
2004
0
356
2005
0
356
2006
1
357
2007
100
457


2012 3
6,400
Notes:
1 Net annual addition equals new installations minus retirements.
2 Cumulative installed capacity may not equal sum of net annual additions due to rounding.
3 2012 is a projection based on data from Emerging Energy Research, Global Concentrated Solar Power Markets and Strategies, 2007-2020 (Cambridge, MA: November 2007) and Earth Policy Institute research.
Source: Compiled by Jonathan G. Dorn, Earth Policy Institute, June 2008, with 1980-2007 data from Shirish Garud, Making Solar Thermal Power Generation in India a Reality - Overview of Technologies, Opportunities, and Challenges (New Delhi: The Energy and Resources Institute, 2006); Rainer Aringhoff et al., Concentrated Solar Thermal Power – Now! (Brussels, Almeria, and Amsterdam: European Solar Thermal Industry Association, IEA SolarPACES, and Greenpeace International, September 2005), p. 10; National Renewable Energy Laboratory, U.S. Parabolic Trough Power Plant Data, electronic database, at www.nrel.gov/csp/troughnet/power_plant_data.html, updated 8 May 2007; Acciona Energy, "CSP - 64 MW Plant in the United States," at www.acciona-energia.com/default.asp?x=0002020401, viewed 15 April 2008; Abengoa Solar, "PS10: The First Commercial Tower of the World," at www.abengoasolar.com/sites/solar/en/nproyectos_ps10.jsp, viewed 15 April 2008; Peter Fairley, "Solar Without the Panels," Technology Review, 29 February 2008. 

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World Cumulative Installed Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Capacity, 1980-2007

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World Cumulative Installed Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Capacity, 1980-2007, with Projection for 2012

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World Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Plants Greater than 10 Megawatts in Operation as of June 2008
Location Company Project
Power Capacity
Year of Initial Operation



Megawatts
 
California, USA Luz International Ltd. SEGS I
14
1985
California, USA Luz International Ltd. SEGS II
30
1986
California, USA Luz International Ltd. SEGS III
30
1987
California, USA Luz International Ltd. SEGS IV
30
1987
California, USA Luz International Ltd. SEGS V
30
1988
California, USA Luz International Ltd. SEGS VI
30
1989
California, USA Luz International Ltd. SEGS VII
30
1989
California, USA Luz International Ltd. SEGS VIII
80
1990
California, USA Luz International Ltd. SEGS IX
80
1991
Andalucίa, Spain Abengoa Solar PS10 (Solúcar Platform)
11
2007
Nevada, USA Acciona Energy Solar One
64
2007
Source: Compiled by Jonathan G. Dorn, Earth Policy Institute, June 2008, with SEGS from National Renewable Energy Laboratory, U.S. Parabolic Trough Power Plant Data, electronic database, at www.nrel.gov/csp/troughnet/power_plant_data.html, updated 8 May 2007; PS10 from Abengoa Solar, "PS10: The First Commercial Tower of the World," at www.abengoasolar.com/sites/solar/en/nproyectos_ps10.jsp, viewed 15 April 2008; Rhone Resch and Noah Kaye, "The Promise of Solar Energy: A Low-Carbon Energy Strategy for the 21st Century," UN Chronicle, vol. XLIV, no. 2 (2007); Solar One from Acciona Energy, "CSP - 64 MW Plant in the United States," at www.acciona-energia.com/default.asp?x=0002020401, viewed 15 April 2008.

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World's Top Ten Largest Proposed Concentrating Solar Thermal Projects as of June 2008
Location Company Project
Power Capacity 1
Scheduled Year of Completion



Megawatts
 
California, USA Solel Solar Systems, Ltd. Mojave Solar Park
553
2011
California, USA Stirling Energy Systems Solar One
500 (850)
2011
California, USA BrightSource Energy, Inc. Ivanpah Solar Electricity Generating System
400 (900)
2011
California, USA Stirling Energy Systems Solar Two
300 (900)
not set 
Andalucίa, Spain Abengoa Solar Solúcar Platform
300
2013 2
Florida, USA Ausra, Inc. n.a.
300
2011
Arizona, USA Abengoa Solar Solana
280
2011
California, USA Beacon Solar, LLC Beacon Solar Energy Project
250
2011
California, USA Harper Lake, LLC Harper Lake Energy Park
250 (500)
2010
Ramat Negev, Israel 3 n.a. n.a.
250
2011
Notes: n.a. = not available. At the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in September 2007, Ausra, Inc. committed to building 1,000 megawatts of solar thermal power, including the project listed here, over the next five years in the United States. Solar Millennium AG is expected to announce plans in late 2008 to build four 250-megawatt CSP plants in the United States (not included in this list). The plants have been negotiated and development depends on interconnection approval. Operation of the first of the four plants is expected to begin in 2011. 
1 Power capacity lists proposed size with possible expansions noted in parentheses.
2 Some CSP projects such as the Solúcar Platform are modular and part can come online before the total project is complete. Currently almost 4 percent of the Solúcar Platform is operational (the PS10 Tower came online in 2007), with additional capacity incrementally coming online over the next several years. The entire project is expected to be completed by 2013.
3 Israel's Ministry for National Infrastructures issued a tender in early 2008 for 250 megawatts of CSP.
Source: Compiled by Jonathan G. Dorn, Earth Policy Institute, June 2008. References available upon request.

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World List of Selected Proposed Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Projects as of June 2008 1
Location Company Project
Power Capacity 2
Scheduled Year of Completion



Megawatts

California, USA Solel Solar Systems, Ltd. Mojave Solar Park
553
2011
California, USA Stirling Energy Systems Solar One
500 (850)
2011
California, USA BrightSource Energy, Inc. Ivanpah Solar Electricity Generating System
400 (900)
2011
California, USA Stirling Energy Systems Solar Two
300 (900)
not set 
Andalucίa, Spain Abengoa Solar Solúcar Platform
300
2013 3
Florida, USA Ausra, Inc. n.a.
300
2011
Arizona, USA Abengoa Solar Solana
280
2011
California, USA Beacon Solar, LLC Beacon Solar Energy Project
250
2011
California, USA Harper Lake, LLC Harper Lake Energy Park
250 (500)
2010
Ramat Negev, Israel 4 n.a. n.a.
250
2011
California, USA eSolar n.a.
245
2011
Australia EnviroMission Ltd. Solar Mission Project
200
not set 
California, USA Ausra, Inc. Carrizo Energy Solar Farm
177
2010
Jordan n.a. n.a.
150 (300)
2015
Spain Solel Solar Systems, Ltd. n.a.
150
not set 
Ciudad Real, Spain Iberdrola Renewables n.a.
150
not set 
Upington, South Africa Eskom n.a.
100
not set
Madinat Zayad, United Arab Emirates Masdar (Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company)  Shams
100
2010
Greece Solar Millennium AG Theseus
52
not set
China Solar Millennium AG n.a.
50 (1,000)
2020
Spain Solar Millennium AG Extremasol 1
50
2011
Spain Solar Millennium AG Extremasol 2
50
2012
Spain Solar Millennium AG Murciasol 1
50
2011
Spain Solar Millennium AG Murciasol 2
50
not set
Córdoba, Spain Acciona Energy Palma del Rio I
50
not set
Córdoba, Spain Acciona Energy Palma del Rio II
50
not set
Ciudad Real, Spain Abengoa Solar Helios 1
50
not set
Ciudad Real, Spain Abengoa Solar Helios 2
50
not set
California, United States Bethel Energy, LLC Bethel 1
50
2010
California, United States Bethel Energy, LLC Bethel 2
50
2010
California, United States n.a. Victorville 2
50
2010
Cáceres, Spain Acciona Energy Majadas de Tiétar
50
not set
Badajoz, Spain Acciona Energy Alvarado
50
2009
Andalucίa, Spain Abengoa Solar Ecija 1
50
not set
Andalucίa, Spain Abengoa Solar Ecija 2
50
not set
Andalucίa, Spain Solar Millennium AG Andasol 1
50
2008
Andalucίa, Spain Solar Millennium AG Andasol 2
50
2009
Andalucίa, Spain Solar Millennium AG Andasol 3
50
2010
Spain Iberdrola Renewables n.a.
50
not set
Spain Iberdrola Renewables n.a.
50
not set
Spain Iberdrola Renewables n.a.
50
not set
Spain Iberdrola Renewables n.a.
50
not set
Spain Iberdrola Renewables n.a.
50
not set
Spain Iberdrola Renewables n.a.
50
not set
Spain Iberdrola Renewables n.a.
50
not set
Liddell, Australia Ausra, Inc. Liddell Power Station
37
2008
Kuraymat, Egypt Solar Millennium AG n.a.
30
not set
Sonora, Mexico n.a. Agua Prieta II
25
2009
Yazd, Iran n.a. n.a.
20
2010
Hassi-R'mel, Algeria Abengoa Solar n.a.
20
2009
Almaden, Spain Abengoa Solar n.a.
20
not set
Ain-Ben-Mathar, Morocco Abengoa Solar n.a.
20
2008
Andalucίa, Spain Sener Solar Tres
16
not set
Cloncurry, Australia Lloyd Energy Systems and Ergon Energy Cloncurry Solar Power Project
10
2010
Notes: n.a. = not available. At the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in September 2007, Ausra, Inc. committed to building 1,000 megawatts of solar thermal power, including the projects listed here, over the next five years in the United States. Solar Millennium AG is expected to announce plans in late 2008 to build four 250-megawatt CSP plants in the United States (not included in this list). The plants have been negotiated and development depends on interconnection approval. Operation of the first of the four plants is expected to begin in 2011. 
1 This table is a list of selected projects larger than 10 megawatts, not a comprehensive list of proposed CSP projects.
2 Power capacity lists proposed size with possible expansions noted in parentheses.
3 Some CSP projects such as the Solúcar Platform are modular and part can come online before the total project is complete. Currently almost 4 percent of the Solúcar Platform is operational (the PS10 Tower came online in 2007), with additional capacity incrementally coming online over the next several years. The entire project is expected to be completed by 2013.
4 Israel's Ministry for National Infrastructures issued a tender in early 2008 for 250 megawatts of CSP.
Source: Compiled by Jonathan G. Dorn, Earth Policy Institute, June 2008. References available upon request.

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Countries Developing Concentrating Solar Thermal Power as of June 2008

 

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Land Area in Algeria Required to Meet Electricity Demand for the World and the European Union with Concentrating Solar Thermal Power

 

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