Designing a Distributed Concentrating Solar Combined Heat and Power System
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Kammen, Daniel
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UC Berkeley
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2011
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UC Berkeley
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2011
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The result of several years of analysis of Distributed Concentrating Solar Combined Heat and Power (DCS-CHP) systems is a design that is predicted to convert sunlight to heat at 8-10% solar-electric efficiency while simultaneously capturing ~60% of that initial sunlight as usable heat (at 100ºC). In contrast to similarly sized photovoltaic systems in the U.S. that cost ~
.90/Watt of generator rated peak electrical output, in mass production the proposed collector and generator system sized at 1-10kW would cost ~