Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7404062 | Energy Policy | 2013 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Subsequently, the economic value of CSP storage is analyzed via energy modeling of a Spanish plant location under the respective wholesale market prices as well as the local feed-in tariff. The analysis shows that investment incentives for CSP plants with storage need to appropriately account for the interdependency between the price incentives and the plant operating strategy. As the resulting revenue characteristics influence the optimal size of solar field and storage differing operating strategies also give rise to differing optimal plant layouts. Most noteworthy, the current Spanish support scheme offers only limited incentives for larger thermal storage capacity.
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Authors
Christoph Kost, Christoph M. Flath, Dominik Möst,