An overview of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technologies and its opportunities in Bangladesh

Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technology is one of the most promising candidate for mitigating the future energy crisis. The extracted power from CSP technology is very clean, reliable and environmental friendly. An overview of CSP technologies like Parabolic Trough, Solar Tower, Parabolic Dish, Linear Fresnel technology have been described in this paper. Comparison among these technologies has been illustrated in this work. For extenuating the present power crisis in Bangladesh CSP technology has great opportunities, since the average Direct Normal Irradiance (DNI) in Bangladesh is 4–6.5 KWh/m
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which is suitable for all types of CSP technology. Suitable locations for different CSP plants in Bangladesh are also proposed on the basis of efficiency, required area and amount of DNI received.