The Latest on Concentrated Solar Power – Always at CSP Today

I have a great deal of admiration for the publishers of CSP Today and what they’ve done to promote the concentrated solar power industry.  When I had lunch with the organization’s director, Belen Gallego, in New York City a few years ago, I congratulated her for her tenacity and hard work in making sure her technology is constantly kept in the public eye.  After all, part of the reason that renewable energy isn’t making faster progress is that, where the oil companies are “an industry” (in fact, the most powerful in the world), solar and wind are just now beginning to move out of obscurity and achieving that status as bona fide industries.

I still subscribe to the newsletter, edited by Bea Gonzalez (pictured).   Here’s an article from today’s issue that points out that wind energy may pose a bigger threat to the viability of CSP than solar PV.  The author points out that the energy from CSP can be stored fairly inexpensively as heat, but that the cost of storing electrical energy is falling fast.

Keep up the good work.