Environmental development plan solar thermal power systems

Technical Report · Wed Aug 01 04:00:00 EDT 1979

OSTI ID:6080658

This EDP for the DOE Solar Thermal Power Systems Program briefly describes the goals of the program and identifies potential environmental, health, safety, and socioeconomic impacts relevant to solar thermal power systems (STPS), particularly those sited in the Southwest. These impacts are screened for key issues, i.e., those issues considered to be the most series in nature, that have near-term importance to the program, and for which current knowledge of effects and control is inadequate. A management plan is then presented for conducting and coordinating environmental research in concert with the technology development effort to ensure that identified environmental issues are resolved prior to significant public deployment of the technology. Key environmental concerns associated with the development and deployment of STPS have been identified by the March 1978 STPS EDP in the following subject areas: (1) site selection (including the question of water availability); (2) ecological and microclimatic effects; (3) working fluid handling and release modes; and (4) misdirected solar radiation. By the time a scale-up and commercialization decision must be made on solar thermal power applications, most of the required research on environmental problems should be completed or underway as a result of the R and D planned in this EDP.

• Research Organization: Department of Energy, Washington, DC (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6080658
• Report Number(s): DOE/EDP-0035
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

14 SOLAR ENERGY
140400* -- Solar Energy-- Environmental Aspects
140700 -- Solar Thermal Power Systems
ACCIDENTS
CLIMATES
ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
FLUIDS
HAZARDS
LIQUID WASTES
MANAGEMENT
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
NATIONAL PROGRAM PLANS
PLANNING
POWER PLANTS
RADIATIONS
SITE SELECTION
SOLAR POWER PLANTS
SOLAR RADIATION
SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS
US DOE
US ORGANIZATIONS
WASTES
WORKING FLUIDS