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Concentrating Solar Power - China's New Solar Frontier

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Ching-Yan Wu and
Mei-Chih Hu
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While all eyes have been focused on China's dramatic recasting of the global solar PV industry, and the trade disputes engendered with the US and EU, there is another solar frontier now emerging, involving grid-connected concentrating solar power (CSP) plants. China is committed to developing capacity of 3 GW by 2015 (more than doubling cumulative world capacity) and 10 GW by 2020, which would make it by far the world's CSP leader, with consequent dramatic impact on cost reductions, driving the diffusion of CSP around the world as key challenger and alternative to nuclear and fossil power.

Keywords

Concentrating Solar Power (CSP)Chinamolten salts

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 11 , Issue 21 , May 2013, e2
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