How do you make solar thermal technology economical at a small scale?

In Hawaii, a power developer will soon find out if earth and sky mix. Pacific Light & Power will build a 10-megawatt solar thermal plant that will combine a trough solar collector from Spain’s Albiasa with a turbine traditionally used in geothermal systems.

Why? Ten megawatts is unusually small for a solar thermal field. BrightSource Energy, by contrast, wants to build one in California that will produce 396 megawatts of power.

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Source: Greentech Media

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