Vertical Reflector Fields: Feasibility of Optical and Geometrical Arrangements for CSP Integration in Façades
Abstract
One of the short-term priorities for renewable energies in Europe is their integration for local power supply into communities and energy islands (blocks of buildings, new neighbourhoods in residential areas, shopping centers, hospitals, recreational areas, eco-parks, small rural areas or isolated ones such as islands or mountain communities) These applications strongly influence field concepts leading to modular systems capable to more closely track demand tracking, meet reliability requirements with fewer megawatts of installed power and spread construction costs over time after output has begun. In addition, integration into single-cycle high-efficiency gas turbines plus waste-heat applications clearly increments the solar share (Romero et al., 1999; Gonzalez et al., 2010).