SOLUGUS - FUTURE SOLAR HYBRID TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

In order to compete with conventional electricity generation, one of the most promising concepts for the cost reduction of solar thermal electricity is the introduction of the solar energy into the Brayton topping cycle of a combined cycle power plant: the results is the solar hybrid technology. In this way the solar heat can be converted to renewable electric energy with the highest currently available conversion efficiency of modern combined cycle plants. Abengoa Solar participates and leads important steps forward in the technology, having achieved several milestones during the last years and more to come in the early future, highlighting the successful construction of the Solugas demo plant, its operation and the upcoming integration of the Soltrec receiver.