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• By 2025, develop advanced dish-engine systems that include advanced concentrator designs, using materials that cost less, advanced converters such as microturbines and PV devices, hybrid operation to increase capacity factor to 50%, and achieve a cost of energy of less than $.06/kWh. 4.2.3 Key Technical Challenges The key technical challenges for parabolic-trough technology are reducing the LEC and developing a low-cost and thermally efficient thermal energy storage that will allow dispatching power to meet the system peak load and that will increase the plant capacity factor. The LEC can be reduced by increasing the plant output, increasing plant efficiency, reducing capital cost, reducing O&M costs, reducing development costs, and reducing technology risk that affects the cost of capital required to invest in the project. Technology improvements are required for power-tower technology to develop further, but these would be evolutionary changes in the technology rather than revolutionary breakthroughs. LEC reductions resulting from scale effects are large on a relative basis, because so far only small-sized plants (in utility terms) have been built. However, scale effects, technology improvements, and volume- production cost reductions are all likely necessary to reach the full market competitiveness that will encourage widespread deployments and can measurably impact societal issues of global warming and energy security. R&D supports scale-up of the solar field and the development of technology advances. DOE manufacturing R&D would also aid cost reductions related to volume production, but much of this benefit is expected to result from industry-funded efforts. R&D in support of the transition from the Solar Two demonstration plant to the next commercial plant will result in a substantial reduction in LEC to about $0.12/kWh if located at a premium solar site. Short-term technical challenges for dishes are dominated by improving the reliability of current systems through systematic operation, root-cause analysis of failures, and improvement of component design and/or operation of the system. This process leads to incremental improvements in existing technologies while, at the same time, developing and incorporating new technologies into the units under study. Long-term technical challenges include reducing the capital and O&M costs for these systems. A major focus of the activity will be to develop and engineer robust components that are capable of operating for long periods of time between failures and scheduled maintenance. The first “key” activity in this plan is to assess the markets for these systems, to further define the market entry requirements and the potential of these systems to meet these requirements. The sections below address the technical targets and key technical barriers facing parabolic trough, power tower, and dish technologies. Technical Targets The following tables (4.2-1 through 4.2-3) highlight the technical targets for each technology. The metrics shown in the tables relate to the specific plant configurations assumed in future years. The LEC is based on sites with a premium solar resource. Trough and tower plants shown are solar only to clarify the progression of technology targets, although hybrid plants may also be deployed commercially. Solar Energy Technologies Program Multi-Year Technical Plan 82PDF Image | Solar Energy Technologies Program
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