Skip to main content
Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences Logo Penn State shield logo with links to Penn State homepage and College of Earth and Mineral Sciences

Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering

Department of

Energy and Mineral Engineering

EME 812: Utility Solar Electric and Concentration

User account menu

  • Log in
  1. Home
  2. EME 812: Utility Solar Power and Concentration

Lesson 8: Concentrating Solar Power Strategies

  • Overview
  • 8.1. CSP site selection and feasibility analysis
  • 8.2. Socio-economic aspects of CSP technology
  • 8.3. Environmental assessment of CSP Technology
  • 8.4. Optimization of CSP Systems
  • 8.5. Thermal Energy Storage
  • Summary and Activities

Book traversal links for Lesson 8: Concentrating Solar Power Strategies

  • ‹ Summary and Activities
  • Up
  • Overview ›
Printer-friendly version

Search

Lessons

  • EME 812: Utility Solar Power and Concentration
    • Lesson 1: Solar Energy Conversion and Utility Solar Power
    • Lesson 2: Concentration Fundamentals
    • Lesson 3: Tracking Systems
    • Lesson 4: Photovoltaics
    • Lesson 5: Concentrating Photovoltaics
    • Lesson 6: PV Power Conditioning
    • Lesson 7: Concentrating Solar Power Technologies
    • Lesson 8: Concentrating Solar Power Strategies
      • Overview
      • 8.1. CSP site selection and feasibility analysis
      • 8.2. Socio-economic aspects of CSP technology
      • 8.3. Environmental assessment of CSP Technology
      • 8.4. Optimization of CSP Systems
      • 8.5. Thermal Energy Storage
      • Summary and Activities
    • Lesson 9: Energy Storage Technologies for Solar Systems
    • Lesson 10: Utility Scale Solar + Storage
    • Individual Course Project

Course materials prepared by Mark Fedkin, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, The Penn State University.

Unless otherwise noted, this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License(opens in a new tab), part of Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' OER Initiative and the Libraries’ Repository of Open and Affordable Materials (ROAM(opens in a new tab)).

The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences is committed to making its websites accessible to all users, and welcomes comments or suggestions on access improvements. Please send comments or suggestions on accessibility to the site editor. (opens email client).

The John A. Dutton Institute for Teaching and Learning Excellence is the learning design unit of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University. About the Institute | Contact Us | Email the Site Editor. (opens email client)

© The Pennsylvania State University | Privacy | Non Discrimination | Accessibility | Equal Opportunity | Copyright