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USA Concentrated Solar Power – huge potential

Solar developers have shown that they are able to deploy far greater amounts, and can now develop at a scale unforeseen by policymakers.

Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS)  targets in the U.S. Where to from here? Concentrated Solar Power  Today By Jenny Muirhead   Dec 13, 2012
In the U.S. it has been state level mandates requiring renewable energy that have driven the growth of renewables over the last ten years, including CSP.
But as more and more states reach those first targets, the solar industry is beginning to butt up against what feels more like limits to growth than mandates requiring more. By Susan Kraemer

How much of a hit will the American CSP industry take and what are some of the options being discussed?

Successes in meeting the earliest Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS)
deadlines of 2010 and 2012 have shown that the industry was able to
ramp up faster than policymakers expected, but many of the next
deadlines are already oversubscribed. State level RPS requirements no
longer challenge the deployment capabilities of the solar industry,
asserts NREL analyst Michael Mendelson at Renewable Energy Project
Finance. “Once considered ambitious targets, RPS standards are now
relatively easy goals to meet as the wind and, in particular, solar
industries are capable of developing generating capacity at scales
unheard of even just a few years ago.”

Solar developers have shown that they are able to deploy far greater amounts, and can now develop at a scale unforeseen by policymakers.

In order to meet the first Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS)
deadlines in 2010 and 2012 for targets, the U.S. added renewable
energy at an unprecedented annual pace of up to 11 GW annually in each
year from 2008……
http://social.csptoday.com/markets/rps-targets-us-where-here

December 19, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized