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Re:Alphabet spinoff Malta raises $26M for technology to stor... by 7e on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:42AM (#18723144)
There are plenty of CSP projects underway. See https://solarpaces.nrel.gov/by-status.
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Re:Alphabet spinoff Malta raises $26M for technology to stor... by Retric on Thursday December 20, 2018 @07:58AM (#18724510)
The list is ~25 locations even including 14MW power plants. Like: https://solarpaces.nrel.gov/dadri-iscc-plant but mostly it’s 50Mw. And that’s not what’s coming online this month or something they can take years to build.

By comparison 95,000+ MW of PV is installed every year. And PV has a much higher capacity factor so actual MW per year is even further in PV’s favor.

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