Another route to harnessing solar energy to produce electricity is using concentrated solar power (CSP) and the world's first commercial solar
thermal power plant came online in Spain in 2007.
Not exact matches
We can't afford to build a coal - fired
power plant with CO2
coming out — so can we develop carbon capture and storage technologies, or should we be looking at solar -
thermal?
Other mitigating factors for coal - fired electricity would be if
thermal coal prices dropped off steeply or the cost of building a coal - fired
power plant came down.
Just since last year, nearly 700 MW of new solar
thermal capacity
came online with the completion of three large
power plants in the Southwest.
In December 2015, the Indian Government
came out with a strict emission notification to control emissions from
thermal power plants.
For example, the Crescent Dunes solar
thermal power tower
plant near Tonopah, Nevada that is expected to
come on line by the end of 2013 will include 10 hours of
thermal energy storage.
This quick - start capability confers wind farms a decided advantage over
thermal coal and natural gas — fired
power plants when it
comes to balancing electricity supply and demand.
If that earthen dyke bursts (there was nice steam
coming off the water, which will someday perfectly illustrate a story on
thermal pollution from
power plants), that entire neighborhood will literally be buried by this poison - laden slurry.