SOLAR COGENERATION
August 1st, 2012
BY ROBERT STOKES
Uncertainty over feed-in tariffs has dogged development of the solar power industry in parts of Europe such as Spain where it once thrived on subsidies.
In concentrated solar power (CSP) arrays, mirrors guided by tracking systems focus sunlight onto a small area where a working fluid becomes hot enough to produce steam to drive electric turbines. In photovoltaic (PV) solar power, a special cell exploits the photoelectric effect to convert sunlight into an electrical current while heat produced in the process can be captured and transported by a ...
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