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Solar power and the desert southwest seem like natural partners. But until the recent advent of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Thermal technology, realizing the benefits of solar power has been beyond the reach of utilities.
CSP-Thermal has emerged as the least cost - Utility Scale - renewable technology ideally suited for these vast, sun-drenched spaces in the U.S. Southwest. Three attributes have boosted CSP-Thermal into the generation arena:
- Its power profile is most closely related to valuable "baseload" (as opposed to intermittent) power
- It is significantly less expensive than Utility Scale PV
- it produces a superior power curve
PPA's have been signed across the US for an incredible 6 Gigawatts of CSP-Thermal. It has the potential of being the dominant renewable energy source in the southwestern region of the U.S. This conference presents a complete lineup of "players" who are making CSP-Thermal happen:
- a utility with a plant under development
- a developer who is operating the only solar molten salt operation in the world
- the supplier of the salts to that facility
- the only company that has constructed a USCSP facility in the past 25 years
- the principal author in the study of barriers throughout the Southwestern U.S.
The conference also features several groundbreaking companies that are creating innovations on temperatures, materials, and storage, which promise to significantly decrease costs and drive further efficiencies. This CSP-Thermal event is a "can't miss" source of information for anyone with a financial interest in developing renewable energy in the southwestern U.S. It builds upon the very successful EUCI winter conference on CSP, but adds even more layers of detail from several new and key presenters. Who Should Attend Those interested in renewable energy development, and, in particular, Utility Executives with Renewable Energy Responsibilities
- Business Development Managers
- Climate Change Specialists
- Construction Companies
- Consultants
- Developers
- Directors of Renewable Development
- Energy and Tax Accountants
- Engineering Companies
- Financial and Investment Professionals
- Lawyers
- Lenders and Investment Managers
- Managers of Strategic Planning
- Procurement Managers and Analysts
- Renewable and Cleantech Project Developers
- Renewable Sourcing Directors
- Solar Power Purchasers
- State and Local Government Officials
- State Economic Development Professionals
- Strategic Planners
- Transmission and Generation Planners
- Utility Executives
- Venture Capitalists
Learning Outcomes This program will help attendees:
- Examine the broad landscape of current CSP landscape and technologies, the huge leverage of scale, and advantages of emerging innovations
- Identify and appraise the array of storage technologies, especially at Utility Scale, and in particular those unique to CSP Thermal
- Assess the success of the first molten salt operation, Andasol I, in Spain, and the lessons for the US
- Distinguish whether a competing large scale storage scheme, compressed air, will offer stiff competition for molten salt
- Identify and evaluate the EPC process and how a collaborative alliance is key
- Recognize the huge logistical hurdles that surround molten salt
- Review alternatives to the two tank molten salt method and discover the significant cost advantages
- Assess the values of "TES" (Thermal Energy Storage) and examine the elements surrounding integration into the solar field and power block
- Identify the feasibility and timeline to "sunlight direct to liquid hydrocarbon" storage
- Recognize the critical steps in the CSP process from an active utility perspective, and assess why certain developments are proceeding, and others are not
- Assess new developments on phase change materials and evaluate whether a game changer is peering over the horizon
- Review and classify the newly developed CSP Test Protocols
- Distinguish how decisions being made on attaining 33% Renewable Energy in California translate to adoption of CSP Thermal
- Interpret how California's goal of 33% renewables will be a boom to CSP
Requirements for Successful Completion of Program Participants must sign in/out each day and be in attendance for its entirety to be eligible for continuing education credit. Instructional Methods PowerPoint Presentations will be used in this program. Continuing Education Credits: EUCI is authorized by IACET to offer up to 1.1 CEUs for this program.
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