Cost Update: Commercial and Advanced Heliostat Collectors

Technical Report · Tue Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1847876· OSTI ID:1847876

Kurup, Parthiv ^[1]; Akar, Sertaç ^[1]; Glynn, Stephen ^[1]; Augustine, Chad ^[1]; Davenport, Patrick ^[1]

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1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

The research team performed a detailed bottom-up manufacturing cost estimate for 2 heliostat designs: i) a commercially available design, the Stellio; and ii) an advanced heliostat design, the Drop-C. The Drop-C is designed and developed by Solar Dynamics (SD) of the United States, whilst the Stellio has been developed primarily by Schlaich Bergermann Und Partner, Sonne Gmbh (sbp) of Germany. The Stellio heliostat has been deployed at commercial scale and is being used at the Hami CSP 50-megawatt electric (MW_e) power tower plant in China. For each design, this includes all components for manufacturing and assembly in a manufacturing facility (e.g., struts and frame) using Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DFMA), and the purchased parts (e.g., mirrors, control systems, and drives). The field-assembly and construction activities are also considered to determine the installed cost of the modelled solar fields.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1847876
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP-7A40-80482; MainId:42685; UUID:f97e6309-2159-4451-bdd7-d06ee50ce244; MainAdminID:63891
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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