A review of concentrating solar power plants in the world and their potential use in Serbia

Pavlović, Tomislav; Radonjić, Ivana S.; Milosavljević, Dragana D.; Pantić, Lana S.

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2012.03.042

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“…The USSE capacity in this country quadrupled in 2010 from 2009, while both residential and nonresidential capacity increased over 60% during that same period. Similar increases in USSE have also been observed in Australia, China, Germany, India, Italy, and Spain [90,111,113,128,139].…”

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“…For example, Lovins [71] provided a conceptual framework by which an energy scheme′s position along a gradient from soft (benign) to hard (harmful) is determined by the energetic resiliency (or waste) and environmental conservation (or disruption) for its complete conversion from source to final end-use form. More recent reviews of the environmental impacts of solar energy systems have emphasized fundamental life-cycle elements (upstream and downstream environmental impacts associated with development; [126]) or were focused on specific regions (e.g., Serbia; [90]) or fauna of interest (Lovich and Ennen, 2012). The observed increase in USSE and studies elucidating their environmental properties underscores the importance of understanding environmental interactions associated with solar energy development, especially at regional and global scales and how these impacts may reduce, augment, or interact with drivers of global environmental change.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Environmental impacts of utility-scale solar energy

Hernandez

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Murphy-Mariscal

et al. 2014

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Greenhouse gas emissions Land use and land cover change Photovoltaic Renewable energy a b s t r a c t Renewable energy is a promising alternative to fossil fuel-based energy, but its development can require a complex set of environmental tradeoffs. A recent increase in solar energy systems, especially large, centralized installations, underscores the urgency of understanding their environmental interactions. Synthesizing literature across numerous disciplines, we review direct and indirect environmental impacts -both beneficial and adverse -of utility-scale solar energy (USSE) development, including impacts on biodiversity, land-use and land-cover change, soils, water resources, and human health. Additionally, we review feedbacks between USSE infrastructure and land-atmosphere interactions and the potential for USSE systems to mitigate climate change. Several characteristics and development strategies of USSE systems have low environmental impacts relative to other energy systems, including other renewables. We show opportunities to increase USSE environmental co-benefits, the permitting and regulatory constraints and opportunities of USSE, and highlight future research directions to better understand the nexus between USSE and the environment. Increasing the environmental compatibility of USSE systems will maximize the efficacy of this key renewable energy source in mitigating climatic and global environmental change.

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Environmental impacts of utility-scale solar energy

Hernandez

Easter

Murphy-Mariscal

et al. 2014

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

534

316

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“…Photovoltaics directly converts light energy into electricity using the photoelectric effect. The concentration of solar energy using a lens or mirror system is combined with a tracking system to focus solar energy to a point to move the engine of heat [5].…”

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Prototype of Pico Hydro – Solar Photovoltaic Hybrid System

Ratnata

Sumarto

Saputra

2018

IOP Conf. Ser.: Mater. Sci. Eng.

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Abstract.In this research will be developed a prototype of Hybrid Power Plants (HPP) which integrates pico-hydro power and Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) system. This HPP prototype will be developed in two stages; the first stage or prototype-1 has a capacity 100 -200 watts (W) and the second stage or prototype-2 with a capacity of 500-1000 watts. Prototype-1 was used as a study and evaluation object for the development of prototype-2 in hopes of producing better output. From the development of prototype-1 it is known that pico-hydro generates a maximum power 86 W (from a capacity 100 W) and the SPV produces a maximum power 30 W in sunny weather and 23 W in cloudy weather (from capacity 100 W). In this prototype-1, the electric energy of pico-hydro in the form of alternating current electric energy, after being converted into direct current electric energy, then combined with the output of the SPV (in the form of direct current electric energy) and stored in the battery (accumulator). At this combination, the input voltage to the battery is in the range 12-13 V and the current 2-3 A.

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“…STPP can produce electric power from a renewable energy [1,2]. Several fluids have been used as the heat transfer fluid (HTF) in STPP systems [3][4][5]. Air has several technical and economic advantages over commonly used fluids such as water/steam, molten salts and thermal oils.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%