THERMAL POWER SYSTEMS SMALL POWER SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS PROJECT SITING ISSUES FOR SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS WITH SMALL COMMUNITY APPLICATIONS

摘要

Technologies for solar thermal plants are being developed to pro-vide energy alternatives for the future. Implementation of these plants requires consideration of siting issues as well as power system technology. While many conventional siting considerations are applicable, there is also a set of unique siting issues for solar thermal plants. Early exper-imental plants will have special siting considerations.nThis report considers the siting issues associated with small, dis¬persed solar thermal power plants in the 1- to 10-rtWe power range for utility/small community applications. Some specific requirements refer to the first 1-MWe engineering experiment for the Small Power Systems applica¬tions (SPSA) Project.