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Appl. Sci. 2020, 10, 5049 15 of 22 enabling the ambitious objectives targeted by the SunShot Program. In this regard, it is interesting to see how the selection of a particular set of assumptions (both financial, economic and thermal) has the potential to turn the Recompression cycle into a competitive option to achieve the 6 g/kWh target of the SunShot programme [28], which is certainly in contrast with the conclusions obtained in this work. Far from discussing the credibility of other research works, the latter statement aims to highlight that much more work on the assessment of appropriate sets of non-technical boundary conditions is still required. 4. Some Considerations about Uncertainty Assessing a trustworthy and thorough feasibility analysis of CSP plants employing sCO2 power blocks is very challenging, mostly due to the low TRL and MRL of sCO2 technology and to the scarcity of reliable cost-related information. To overcome this limitation, this work is based on a series of assumptions, in order to reduce the complexity of the problem down to a manageable level. In this section, these assumptions are revisited with the aim to assess the reliability of the results, highlighting both the positive features and also the main flaws. There are two types of uncertainty when exploring the potential of disruptive technologies: avoidable and unavoidable. Avoidable uncertainty that is incurred in the simulation of processes due to the lack of precise information about the operating conditions and specifications of certain components. The same applies to the calculation of capital and operating costs of a technology that is not commercially available yet. As far as this work is concerned, previous publications by the authors have justified the simplifying assumptions made to carry out the thermal assessment [8,11] and to estimate the capital costs of sCO2 technology [9,10]. In this former case, the performance results have been validated against results in literature and also against experimental data [30]. For capital costs, given the lack of mass production of the equipment needed (sCO2 compressors, expanders and heat exchangers and also high pressure and temperature solar receivers), a dedicated Monte Carlo- based uncertainty quantification analysis is incorporated in the calculations. In either case, uncertainty can be classified as avoidable inasmuch as the continuous development of the technology and, later, the deployment of a commercial plant will expectedly yield more accurate technical and economic information. The financial boundary conditions set to calculate the Levelised Cost of Electricity of the technology is affected by the so-called unavoidable uncertainty. Future economic scenarios are not foreseeable and, more often than not, previsions are drastically altered by unpredictable political and/or social changes; the twenty-first century is still in its infancy and it has already seen several of these crises. As a consequence of this, setting the discount rate turns out an uncertain process that includes thorough considerations about how investments in a particular market might unfold in the future. The same applies to other local assumptions related to foreseen energy policies and subsidies, especially in unstable regions of the world [31]. These aspects involved in the economic valuation of constructing innovative CSP plants are inherently uncertain and, therefore, cannot be removed from the analysis completely. With all this in mind, the results obtained are deemed as trustworthy as possible for a technology that is still far from the marketplace. Moreover, as reported in the concluding remark of the previous section, the results obtained are thought to provide a very solid upper limit of the expected LCoE enabled by sCO2 power cycles in CSP applications. From here, future works will continuously reduce avoidable uncertainty to values comparable to those reported for state-of-the-art CSP plants based on steam turbines. 5. Conclusions This paper is focused on the assessment of the Levelised Costs of Electricity that should be expected if supercritical CO2 power cycles were adopted in next generation Concentrated Solar Power plants for Solar Thermal Electricity generation. A simulation platform developed by the authors for the techno-economic analysis of Concentrated Solar Power plants has been integrated with thePDF Image | Supercritical CO2 Power Solar Power Plants
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