1. TOP 3 IN CSP
By : Belén Gallego
CSP Today

2. TOP 3 PT PROJECTS IN CONSTRUCTION
Andasol 1 – ACS Cobra (USA, 2007)
Godawari – Godawari Energy, HIRA Group (India, 2013)
Shams1 – Shams Co, MASDAR (UAE, 2012)

3. TOP 3 OPERATIONAL PARABOLIC TROUGH PROJECTS
Andasol 1 – ACS Cobra (Spain, 2007)
50MW PT project in Granada, Spain with 7.5 hours thermal storage. Lots of challenges, long commissioning period. PT evolution through construction

4. ANDASOL 1 TECHNICAL PROFILE
Gross Capacity: 50.00
EPC: Cobra / SENER (Engineering)
Net Capacity: 49.9 MWe
EPC (notes): Cobra (80%) and Sener (20%)
Back-up fuel: HTF Heater
Utility (Off-taker) 1: Endesa
Back-up fuel percentage: 12%
Financing: 
Heat Transfer Fluid (HTF): Synthetic Oil
BNP Paribas, Sabadell Bank, WestLB , Dexia and €pean Investment Bank. Debt €240 million Debt financing
Net Annual Production - Actual (GWh): 170
Solar Field Inlet Temperature (ºC): 293
EU Grant €5 million
Solar Field Outlet Temperature (ºC): 393
The EIB provided a RSFF of €60 million
Cooling: Wet
Storage (Hours): 7.50
Developers: ANTIN/ Cobra/ RREEF Infrastructure
Developers (Ownership Notes): Cobra (100%)

5. ANDASOL 1 TECHNICAL PROFILE (CONT)
O&M Contractors: Cobra, Flagsol, Laitu Solar
Receiver tubes supplier PT 1: Schott
Receiver tubes model PT 1: Schott PTR 70 receiver
Heat transfer fluid supplier (HTF): DOW
Heat transfer fluid model (HTF): DOW DOWTHERM
Receiver tubes supplier PT 2: Solel (acquired by Siemens in 2009)
Turbine supplier: Siemens
Solar collector frame supplier PT: Flagsol
Turbine Model: Siemens SST-700
Solar collector frame model PT: Flagsol SKAL-ET
Steam Generator Supplier: Lointek
Storage medium: Molten Salt
Suppliers - Information: SQM provided the NaNO3 for this project whilst the KNO3 was supplied by a competitor 
Thermal storage supplier (medium): SQM
Mirror supplier PT 1: Flabeg
Mirror model PT 1: Flabeg RP- 3

6. TOP 3 OPERATIONAL PARABOLIC TROUGH PROJECTS
Godawari – Godawari Power (Hira Group) (India, 2013)
50MW PT project in Rajasthan, India. First ever project in India finished on time (26 months after inception) and on budget

7. GODAWARI TECHNICAL PROFILE
Gross Capacity: 50.00 MWe
Turbine supplier: Siemens
Net Capacity: 50.0 MWe
Turbine Model: Siemens SST-700
Back-up fuel: None
Steam Generator Supplier: Aalborg
Heat Transfer Fluid (HTF): Synthetic Oil
Mirror supplier PT 1: Flabeg
Net Annual Production - Expected (GWh): 120
Mirror model PT 1: Flabeg RP- 3
Receiver tubes supplier PT 1: SCHOTT
Solar Field Inlet Temperature (ºC): 293
Receiver tubes model PT 1: Schott PTR 70 receiver
Solar Field Outlet Temperature (ºC): 390
Cooling: Wet
Solar collector frame supplier PT: SBP
Due Dilligence Contractors: Fitchner - Owners Engineers Contractor
Solar collector frame model PT: SBPET-150
Heat transfer fluid supplier (HTF): DOW
Heat transfer fluid model (HTF): DOW DOWTHERM

8. Godawari Plant (India)

9. Godawari Plant (India)

10. Godawari Plant (India)

11. Godawari Plant (India)

12. Godawari Plant (India)

13. TOP 3 OPERATIONAL PARABOLIC TROUGH PROJECTS
Shams 1 – Shams Co, MASDAR (UAE, 2012)
100MW PT project in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Biggest CSP operational project to date. Dry cooling, high back up fuel usage. Helped set up MASDAR in the developer seat (Pre-selected for Morocco)

14. SHAMS 1 TECHNICAL PROFILE
Gross Capacity:  MWe
Utility (Off-taker) 1: ADWEC
Back-up fuel: Dual: Natural Gas or Diesel
CAPEX (millions): 600 US$
Back-up fuel percentage: 4%
Financing: BNP Paribas, KfW, Mizuho, National Bank of Abu Dhabi, Natixis, SociétéGénérale, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, The Bank of Toyko-Mitsubishi, Union National Bank and WestLB. $600 million Debt Financing. Masdar (60%) together with Total Abengoa Solar Emirates Investment Company (40%) formed a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) called the Shams Power Company. The SPV holds the equity of the project (20%), while the remaining share (80%) is bank financed.
Heat Transfer Fluid (HTF): Synthetic Oil
Net Annual Production - Expected (GWh): 210
Solar Field Inlet Temperature (ºC): 302
Solar Field Outlet Temperature (ºC): 393
Cooling: Dry
Developers: Abengoa, Masdar, Total
Developers (Ownership Notes): Shams Power Company is owned by Masdar (60%), Abengoa (20%) and Total (20%)
EPC: Abener. Teyma

15. SHAMS 1 TECHNICAL PROFILE (CONT)
O&M Contractors: Abener O&M, SINI
Receiver tubes model PT 1: Schott PTR 70 receiver
Heat transfer fluid supplier (HTF): SOLUTIA
Solar collector frame supplier PT: Abengoa Solar
Heat transfer fluid model (HTF): SOLUTIA THERMINOL
Solar collector frame model PT: Abengoa Solar ASTRO
Turbine supplier: MAN
Steam Generator Supplier: Foster Wheeler
Suppliers - Information: Suppliers (Air cooled condenser): GEA Power Cooling
Mirror supplier PT 1: Flabeg
Safety valves supplied by Leser
Mirror model PT 1: Flabeg RP- 3
Receiver tubes supplier PT 1: SCHOTT

16. Shams 1

17. TOP 3 PT PROJECTS IN CONSTRUCTION
Solana – Abengoa (USA, 2013)
Noor I – aka Ouarzazate - ACWA (Morocco, 2015)
Gujarat Solar 1 – Cargo (India, 2014)

18. TOP 3 PT PROJECTS IN CONSTRUCTION
Solana – Abengoa (USA, 2013)
280MW PT project in Arizona, USA with 7 hours thermal storage. Largest plant in the world once commissioned. This plant has been a challenge at all levels

19. SOLANA TECHNICAL PROFILE
Gross Capacity:  MWe
O&M Contractors: Abener O&M
Heat Transfer Fluid (HTF): Synthetic Oil
Heat transfer fluid supplier (HTF): SOLUTIA
Solar Field Outlet Temperature (ºC): 371
Cooling: Wet
Heat transfer fluid model (HTF): SOLUTIA THERMINOL
Storage (Hours): 6.00
Developers: Abengoa
Steam Generator Supplier: Foster Wheeler
EPC: Abener - Teyma
Utility (Off-taker) 1: Arizona Public Service Co
Steam Generator Model: Foster Wheeler Steam Generator
Incentive 1: US Loan Guarantee
Thermal storage supplier (medium): SQM
Incentive 1 details: $1.45 Billion
Mirror supplier PT 1: Rioglass
CAPEX (millions): 2000 US$
Suppliers - Information: Safety valves supplied by Lese
Financing: Capital Riesgo Global (A Subsidiary of Banco Santander $125 million)

20. TOP 3 PT PROJECTS IN CONSTRUCTION
Noor I – aka Ouarzazate – ACWA (Morocco, 2015)
160MW PT Project in Ouarzazate, Morocco. Lowest PPA amount to date (€0.15 KW/h). First bid won by ACWA.

21. NOOR I – aka OUARZAZATE TECHNICAL PROFILE
Gross Capacity:  MWe
Financing: € million financing was raised for all phases of the Ourzazate project, which is 500 MW in total.
Net Annual Production - Expected (GWh): 550
Storage (Hours): 3.00
AfDB €168 million (Debt Financing); CTF/AfDB €70.12 million (Debt Financing); World Bank € million (Debt Financing); CTF/World Bank €68.02 million (Debt Financing); EIB: 100 (Debt Financing); L'Agence Française de Développement (AFD) € 100 million (Debt Financing); KFW € 100 million (Debt financing); NIF € million (Grant); MASEN/FDE/SPC contribution € million
Developers: Acciona, ACWA, Aries, Sener, TSK
EPC: TSK
Utility (Off-taker) 1: MASEN
PPA Notes:PPA to the value of 1 Billion USD for a period of 25 years. The tariff submitted by ACWA 28.8% lower than that of the second bidder. The PPA is valued at 1.62 Dirhams per kWh/ 0.19 USD per kWh / EUR 0.15 per kWh
CAPEX (millions): €

22. TOP 3 PT PROJECTS IN CONSTRUCTION
Gujarat Solar 1 – Cargo Power (India, 2014)
28MW PT project in Gujarat, India with 9 hours thermal storage. High level of localization and first time a CSP plant with thermal storage is built in India

23. GUJARAT SOLAR 1 TECHNICAL PROFILE
Gross Capacity: 28.00 MWe
Developers: Cargo Power and Infrastructure
Net Capacity: 25.00 MWe
Back-up fuel: None
Developers (Ownership Notes): Cargo Solar Power Gujarat Pvt Ltd is owned by Cargo Power and Infrastructure (100%)
Heat Transfer Fluid (HTF): Synthetic Oil
Net Annual Production - Expected (GWh): 130
EPC: LAUREN CCL
Net Annual Production - Actual (GWh): 130
EPC (notes):  Lauren is the EPCM
Utility (Off-taker) 1:  Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd (GUVNL
Solar Field Inlet Temperature (ºC): 265
Solar Field Outlet Temperature (ºC): 393
CAPEX (millions): 881.5 INR
Cooling: Wet
Financing: 70% from Banks
Storage (Hours): 9.00
Due Dilligence Contractors: S2M
Storage temperature (Celsius): 393.00

24. GUJARAT SOLAR 1 TECHNICAL PROFILE (CONT)
O&M Contractors: LAUREN CCL - EPCM
Mirror supplier PT 1: Flabeg
O&M Contract Length: 2 -years from Final performance Test of Plant.
Mirror model PT 1: Flabeg RP- 3
Receiver tubes supplier PT 1: SCHOTT
Heat transfer fluid supplier (HTF): Lanxess
Receiver tubes model PT 1: Schott PTR 70 receiver
Heat transfer fluid model (HTF): Lanxess Di-Phyl
Solar collector frame supplier PT: Ashoka Machine
Turbine supplier: GE
Turbine Model: GEHTM-012Z04T
Solar collector frame model PT: Ashoka Machine ET-150
Steam Generator Supplier: Aalborg
Steam Generator Model: Aalborg 25 Mwe

25. TOP 3 TOWER PROJECTS
Ivanpah SEGS – BrightSource Energy (USA, 2013)
Crescent Dunes – SolarReserve (USA, 2014)
Gemasolar – Torresol (Spain, 2011)

26. TOP 3 TOWER PROJECTS Ivanpah SEGS – BrightSource Energy (USA, 2013)
393MWe tower development (3 towers). It will be the largest CSP tower complex in the world for years to come. Dry cooling. Plenty of environmental and project development challenges.

27. IVANPAH SEGS TECHNICAL PROFILE
Gross Capacity: 393MWe
Utility (Off-taker) 2: Southern California Edison
Back-up fuel: Natural Gas
Incentive 1: US Loan Guarantee
Heat Transfer Fluid (HTF): Water
Incentive 1 details: US $ 1600 million. Total amount split between Ivanpah SEGS 1,2 and 3
Net Annual Production - Expected (GWh): 346
Solar Field Inlet Temperature (ºC): 249
Solar Field Outlet Temperature (ºC): 565
O&M Contractors: BrightSource Energy, NRG
Cooling: Dry
Developers: BrightSource Energy, Google, NRG
Turbine supplier: Siemens
Turbine Model: Siemens SST-900
Developers (Ownership Notes): Solar Partners LLC is owned by Brightsource Energy, Google and NRG
Steam Generator Supplier: Riley Power
Heliostats supplier T 1 : Guardian
Heliostats model T 1: Guardian’s EcoGuard Float
EPC: Bechtel Corporation
Utility (Off-taker) 1: Pacific Gas & Electric
Receiver Manufacturer T: Riley Power
Utility 1 PPA Date: 01/01/2010

32. TOP 3 TOWER PROJECTS
Crescent Dunes – aka Tonopah – SolarReserve (USA, 2014)
110MW molten salt tower plant with 11 hours of storage at full capacity. Hybrid cooling.

33. CRESCENT DUNES TECHNICAL PROFILE
Gross Capacity:  MWe
Utility (Off-taker) 1: NV Energy
Back-up fuel: None
PPA Notes: 25-year power purchase agreement with NV Energy to sell 100% of the electricity generated
Heat Transfer Fluid (HTF): Molten Salt
Net Annual Production - Expected (GWh): 500
Incentive 1: US Loan Guarantee
Solar Field Inlet Temperature (ºC): 288
Incentive 1 details: US$ 737 million
Solar Field Outlet Temperature (ºC): 566
CAPEX (millions): US $983
Cooling: Hybrid: Wet/Dry
Financing: Santander, ACS, SolarReserve
Storage (Hours): 11.00
O&M Contractors: PIC Marubeni Group
Developers: Cobra, Santander, SolarReserve
Turbine supplier: Alstom
Steam Generator Supplier: Lointek
Developers (Ownership Notes): Tonopah Solar Energy LLC. Owned by: SolarReserve; Cobra (35%); Santander.
Heliostats supplier T 1 : Flabeg – changed to Rioglass after Flabeg´s bankruptcy
Receiver Manufacturer T: Pratt Whitney
EPC: Cobra
Engineering: IDOM

34. Crescent Dunes

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36. Crescent Dunes

37. TOP 3 TOWER PROJECTS Gemasolar – Torresol (Spain, 2011)
19.9MW molten salt tower with 15 hours of thermal storage. Operating 24 hours a day 7 days a week during the summer at full capacity.

38. GEMASOLAR TECHNICAL PROFILE
Gross Capacity: 20.00 MWe
EPC: Cobra, Sener
Net Capacity: 19.9 MWe
EPC (notes): UTE C.T. Solar Tres: Sener, Cobra
Back-up fuel: Natural Gas
Back-up fuel percentage: 15%
CAPEX (millions): €230
Heat Transfer Fluid (HTF): Molten Salt
Financing: EIB €110 million (Debt) Banco Popular,Banesto and Instituto de Crédito Oficial €81 million (Debt) EC €5 million (Grant)
Net Annual Production - Actual (GWh): 100
Solar Field Inlet Temperature (ºC): 290
Solar Field Outlet Temperature (ºC): 565
O&M Contractors: Torresol Energy, SINI, SMIT
Cooling: Wet
Storage (Hours): 15.00
Turbine supplier: Siemens
Storage temperature (Celsius): 600.00
Turbine Model: Siemens SST-600
Developers: Masdar, Sener, Torresol Energy
Steam Generator Supplier: Foster Wheeler
Developers (Ownership Notes): Torresol Energy is owned by Masdar (40%) and Sener (60%)
Storage medium: Molten Salt
Heliostats, Receivers and Structures: Sener

40. TOP 3 NON ELECTRICITY CSP PROJECTS
BrightSource Chevron EOR Project (USA)
El Tesoro (Chile)
Petroleum Development OMAN EOR (Oman)

41. BRIGHTSOURCE CHEVRON TECHNICAL PROFILE
Gross Capacity: 29.00 MWth
Technology: Tower
Application: Enhanced Oil Recovery
Back-up fuel: None
Heat Transfer Fluid (HTF): Water
Cooling: Dry
Country: USA
State/Region: Coalinga, California
Developers: BrightSource Energy
Developers (Ownership Notes): Chevron (100%)
O&M Contractors: BrightSource Energy, Chevron

42. EL TESORO TECHNICAL PROFILE
Gross Capacity: 14.00 MWth
Technology: Parabolic Trough
Application: Steam Generation
Back-up fuel: None
Heat Transfer Fluid (HTF): Water
Cooling: Wet
Country: Chile
State/Region:Atacama Desert
Developers: Abengoa
Developers (Ownership Notes): Antofagasta Minerals (100%)
CAPEX (millions): US$12

47. PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT OMAN EOR TECHNICAL PROFILE
Gross Capacity: 7.00 MWth
Technology: Parabolic Trough
Application: Steam Generation
Country: Oman
Additional Info: Steam production: 11 tons of steam per hour injected into the existing steam distribution network GlassPoint’s Single Transit Trough technology has been designed to enclose lightweight reflective mirrors inside a glasshouse structure to protect the system from dirt, dust, sand and humidity. The company says its solution can reduce the amount of natural gas used for EOR by up to 80%.

48. TOP 4 COMMERCIAL INNOVATION PROJECTS
Tooele Army Depot (USA)
INFINIA: 429 units of dish tech totally 1.5MWe
Archimide (Italy)
ENEL: 5MWe PT using molten salt as a HTF
Central Borges (Spain)
ABANTIA: 22.5MWe CSP - Biomass – hybrid plant
Reliance (India)
RELIANCE, AREVA: 2 x 125 MWe fresnel plant

49. TOP 3 R+D INNOVATIVE CSP PROJECTS
DoE Sunshot Program – AREVA (USA)
Molten Salt as HTF and storage in fresnel tech
DoE Sunshot Program (USA)
Super Critical CO2 as HTF
Variable Geometry Heliostat Field (Spain)
CTAER: 1MWe variable geometry solar field tower prototype

50. TOP 3 VISIONARY PROJECTS
TUNUR Project (Tunisia)
2GW of Tower Development (Nur Energy)
Sahara Forest Project (Qatar)
Using CSP to create a greenhouse ecosystem to generate locl agriculture opportunities in Qatar
Devish Project (Turkey)
GE hybrid REW project including wind, PV and CSP in the same development for dispatchability

51. TOP 4 CSP NEWCOMERS TO WATCH
Wilson Solar Power (USA)
Water free, tower modular technology, dispatchable
Airlight Energy (Germany)
Pneumatic mirror system, concrete structure, 600ºC (air as HTF)
Brenmiller Energy (Israel)
Self- contained “Bcell” with power block plug and play, small scales, 24/7 with fossil back up
Hitite Energy (Turkey)
Stationary PT with direct Steam generation (compatible with CO2 as well) Higher temperatures

52. TOP 4 THERMAL THERMAL STORAGE COs to WATCH
Halotechnics (USA)
Deep Eutectic Salt Formulations Suitable as Advanced Heat Transfer Fluid
Terrafore (USA)
Heat Transfer and Latent Heat Storage in Inorganic Molten Salts (Phase Change Materials - PCM)
Nest Energy (USA)
Heatcrete, great temperature range
General Atomics (USA)
Thermochemical Heat Storage for CSP Based on Multivalent Metal Oxides

53. TOP 3 CSP TRENDS TO WATCH
Smaller Scales, modular projects
Hybridization for dispatchability and CAPEX reduction
R+D Higher Temperatures and new HTF (air, CO2, steam, etc)

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