Concentrated Solar Power: current situation, future developments, potential
Renewable sources or partially this? The CSP has never ceased to animate the debate, at least since the Nobel Prize for Physics Carlo Rubbia - great supporter - in 2005 he decided to leave the presidency Enea, disagree with those who were not willing to fund this technology that , to work at night or in the absence of the sun, requires the support of energy from traditional sources.
Again in July 2009, in fact, the Italian Senate approve 'a motion rather critical of the CSP, which is considered a source not completely environmentally friendly and "inefficient", in some respects - especially in comparison with nuclear technology, which pushes towards the Government.
Anest Yesterday, the National Association Solar Energy Thermodynamics, and 'returned to the office during a hearing at the XIII Commission, Land, Environment and Environmental Heritage of the Senate, as part of the inquiry on issues related to renewable energy alternative and renewable energy, arguing that within the next 10 years, Italy may, with the only solar thermal power, reach an installed capacity between 3,000 and 5,000 MW, increasing the 'occupation between 30,000 and 50,000 units'.
But how is it different technology, also called "concentration", compared to other forms of production from solar energy? "Concentrated Solar Power", says the president of the association, Cesare Fera, "allows for the accumulation and storage of energy, modulating the transmission. In this way, it is finally possible to overcome the problem of peak supply is not supported by network, resulting in waste of energy, a problem which has so far turned out to be common among the sources of alternative and renewable energy. "
In order to reach the ambitious ten-year goal, the Anest asked, however, 'that the institutions adequately support the sector, particularly with an extension of the deadline of the 2012-2015 incentives and support for the installation of small-scale plants, which could also be "hybridized" with other renewable sources, allowing you to complete the installation of approximately 200 MW of power - already 'provided for in the scheme of incentives - through the use of Italian technology.
In this regard, the Association has also advanced, among other requirements, that of a support by the Government, for initiatives to promote Italian technology in foreign countries, the introduction of an incentive system to reward cogeneration electricity '/ heat and cold and an additional incentive bonus for ground systems "suspended", allowing that' the cultivation of the soil below.
"By developing its supply chain," said Fera, "Concentrating Solar Power will bring 'our country to reach the target set by the European Union of 17% of national energy produced from renewable sources. In the global race towards this technology l' Italy can 'get the first places in the development of the industrial chain: thermodynamic solar power can' be an opportunity for us' that the French have taken in Germany and Denmark in wind and nuclear. "
02/07/2010
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Italian version of ReteIngegneri.it