Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)
Concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies produce electricity by concentrating the sun's energy using reflective devices, such as troughs or mirror panels, to reflect sunlight onto a receiver. The resulting high-temperature heat is used to power a conventional turbine to produce electricity. Our CSP systems are used to generate a large amount of electricity and require large amounts of land to deploy.
Lr. Energies specialises in three types of concentrating solar power technologies:
Lr. Energies specialises in three types of concentrating solar power technologies:
• Linear concentrator systems collect the sun's energy using long rectangular, U-shaped mirrors. The mirrors are tilted toward the sun, focusing sunlight on tubes that run the length of the mirrors. The reflected sunlight heats a fluid that flows through the tubes. The hot fluid is then used to boil water in a conventional steam-turbine generator to produce electricity.
• Dish/engines use a mirrored dish similar to a very large satellite dish. The dish-shaped surface directs and concentrates sunlight onto a thermal receiver, which absorbs and collects the heat and transfers it to the engine generator, which is used to produce electricity.
• Power towers use a large field of flat, sun-tracking mirrors, known as heliostats, to focus and concentrate sunlight onto a receiver on the top of a tower. A heat-transfer fluid heated in the receiver is used to generate steam, which is then used in a conventional turbine generator to produce electricity.
