The article describes the expected trends in the market for CSP plants. Special attention is given to the potential efficiency of various technologies in development that will help make CSP plants competitive to fossil power generation over the long term. The main idea is that the trend toward larger plants will continue while, at the same time, industrialization of the CSP industry continues to increase efficiency and reduce costs. Optimization of CSP plants and economies of scale will give the technology additional momentum from both an economic and technical standpoint, while the potential to develop more advanced plant components and systems as well as alternative thermal media will also play a major role. Innovation - incremental as well as disruptive - is the key to move towards wholesale parity and secure a sustainable competitive edge.
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