Thermal Storage Technologies for CSP Plants in the Brazilian Semi-arid

Abstract

The new era of solar energy comes with the thermoelectric model wich opens a new horizon in renewable energies. The Brazilian semiarid has geographical conditions that favor this type of installations given its high insolation rate per day. In this particular region, one can think of creating dispatchable thermoelectric plants. To this end, the plants would use the thermal storage technology, which would make them able to continue to feed SIN even without the incidence of sunlight. In order to better understand how to make the most of this natural wealth, this work will show the advantages of the Brazilian semi-arid and, together with the available thermal storage technologies and how they could be used to generate electricity in a dispatchable manner