Précis:Solarlite’s founder and CEO, Joachim Krüger, talks CSP Today through the company’s cost-busting direct steam generation technology, its biomass hybrid application, and its strategy to build a 14 further plants in Thailand.Interview by Rikki Stancich
German concentrated solar power technology provider, Solarlite, set a precedent last month as the world's first direct steam generation parabolic trough plant to supply 5 MW of electrical power to Thailand's public power network.
The development marks a major milestone for the concentrated solar power (CSP) sector. With direct steam generation, the solar radiation heats water directly in an absorber tube, which produces the steam required to power the turbine.
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Solarlite: Powering up Southeast Asian CSP
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