Lacklustre results from the Colorado Integrated Solar Project

Lacklustre results from the Colorado Integrated Solar Project Barry Brook | 3 July 2011 at 11:06 PM | Categories: Emissions, Renewables | URL: http://wp.me/piCIJ-1f0

A common lament of those analysts wishing to get to grips with the real-world performance of solar thermal power plants has been, well... an absence of data. Trainer noted, in 'Solar Thermal Questions':

It would be great to get some actual data on their year round performance. I have found it fiendishly difficult to get such data out of anyone; they seem not to want to make it public, and this makes evaluation of claims very difficult.

During the Equinox Energy 2030 summit, Jay Apt noted some issues with utility-scale PV farm performance, as illustrated in the figure below (from this paper):