This new study on Molten Salt Solar Energy Thermal Storage and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP): Market Shares and Forecasts, Worldwide, 2010-2016, has 309 pages, 103 tables and figures.

Large solar farms are part of the answer to implementing energy generated from capture of heat from the sun. Utility scale systems are complex implementations of aggregated capture devices. The value of utility scale build out is the sheer size of the projects.

It is easier to implement one large project in a controlled area than to implement multiple medium size project to achieve the same level of power generation. Molten salt solar energy storage systems implement utility scale solar electricity systems. The large scale provides replacement for coal systems and supplements nuclear systems that are not feasible in many locations. Solar concentrators are able to run conventional steam generators, leveraging existing technology for renewable energy electricity use. Corrosion is an issue. The pipes that carry the molten salt need to be corrosion resistant, otherwise they need to be replaced every year. Heat is another issue. The high heat of the salt may cause chemical decomposition of the solution, creating the need to replace the solution at relatively short intervals.

There is growing global demand for cost-effective and reliable solar power. Molten salt storage and solar electricity generation by use of steam turbines are poised to achieve significant growth. The economies of scale have not yet kicked in and will do so after 100 projects have been built out. The technology promises to be significant because the projects generate so much electricity.

Solar concentrators are efficient and leverage existing steam generation technology. The technology will succeed far faster and be far more wide spread that the vendor executives are now predicting. With rising prices of oil and the Gulf of Mexico oil well disaster, solar power begins to look good, because it is a sustainable energy source. Aggregation of electricity generated from solar panels placed on commercial roofs is another aspect of utility scale electricity generation. The commercial roof electricity can be sold from electricity substations to the locality for use in data centers, powering electric vehicles, and general electricity usage.

Solar energy market driving forces relate to the opportunity to harness a cheap, long lasting, powerful energy source. Solar energy can be used to create electricity in huge quantity. Solar panels are mounted in a weatherproof frame, are mounted in areas with direct exposure to the sun to generate electricity from sunlight.

Solar power systems are comprised of solar modules, related power electronics, and other components. Solar panels are used in residential, commercial and industrial applications. Solar compositions of arrays that comprise electric utility grids appear to be the wave of the future.

The demand for solar energy is dependent on a lower prices for solar and higher prices for petroleum. A combination of economies of scale being realized in the manufacturing along with increases in the current prices for petroleum will drive solar energy adoption.

The overall solar market has attained enough critical mass to boost competitive technologies of thin film and monocrystalline, polycrystalline, and multicrystalline silicon based systems.

Concentrated thermal solar molten salt storage units at a level below 0 million in 2009 are anticipated to reach .6 billion by 2016. Vendors are well positioned to gain significant market share over the next five years as existing products are tuned as second and third generation products to achieve more economies of scale.

Table Of contents

Molten Salt Solar Executive Summary

Molten Salt Storage of Solar Energy Executive Summary ES-1

Molten Salt Utility Scale Storage of Electricity From Solar Energy ES-1

Nanotechnology Promises To Be A Significant Aspect Of Solar Storage Market Evolution ES-2

Global Demand For Cost-Effective And Reliable Solar Power ES-2

Molten Salt Solar Utility Scale Steam Turbine Market Shares ES-3

Molten Salt Solar Utility Scale Energy Market Forecast ES-5

Molten Salt Solar Market Description And Market Dynamics

1. Molten Salt Thermal Storage and 1-1

1.1 Molten Salt Stores Solar Energy As Heat 1-1

1.1.1 Using Mirrors To Concentrate Sun Energy 1-2

1.1.2 Compressing Air Or Pumping Water Uphill To Store Sun’s Energy 1-3

1.1.3 Round-Trip Efficiency 1-3

1.2 Molten Salt As Solar Heat Battery 1-3

1.2.1 Salt Storage System Potential Issues 1-5

1.3 Utility-Scale Thermal Concentrating Solar 1-6

1.3.1 Climate Change Is Predicted To Raise Global Sea Levels 1-8

1.4 Nuclear Power Plants 1-9

1.4.1 Impact of Changing Water Supplies 1-10

1.5 Power Plans 1-11

1.6 Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) 1-12

1.6.1 Components Of A Concentrated Solar Power CSP System 1-13

1.6.2 Parabolic Trough 1-14

1.6.3 Parabolic Dish 1-15

1.6.4 Central Tower 1-17

1.6.5 Solar Furnace 1-19

1.6.6 Solar Radiation Types Of Receiver 1-20

1.7 Uses Of CSP Technology 1-21

1.8 Decentralised Generation 1-22

1.9 Solar Air Conditioning 1-23

1.9.1 Solar Air Conditioning Sorbent 1-23

1.9.2 Refrigerant Circulation Systems Differentiated Processes 1-24

1.10 Go Solar California 1-27

1.10.1 Power The World From Desert 1-27

1.11 Key Elements In A Solar Cell 1-28

1.11.1 Emcore Magnifies Solar Energy 1-30

1.11.2 CPV Utility Positioning 1-31

Molten Salt Solar Market Shares And Market Forecasts

2. Molten Salt Storage of Solar Energy Market Shares and Market Forecasts -21

2.1 Molten Salt Utility Scale Storage of Electricity From Solar Energy 2-1

2.1.1 Nanotechnology Promises To Be A Significant Aspect Of Solar Storage Market Evolution 2-2

2.1.2 Global Demand For Cost-Effective And Reliable Solar Power 2-2

2.2 Molten Salt Solar Utility Scale Steam Turbine Market Shares 2-3

2.2.1 Siemens’ Environmental Portfolio Revenue 2-7

2.3 Molten Salt Solar Utility Scale Energy Market Participants 2-10

2.3.1 United Technologies 2-10

2.3.2 Solar Reserve Partnered With United Technologies 2-11

2.3.3 United Technologies Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne 2-11

2.3.4 Abengoa Solar Commercial Operation of Solnova 3 2-12

2.3.5 Areva / Ausra 2-13

2.3.6 BrightSource Energy Ivanpah project 2-13

2.3.7 GE Energy 2-14

2.3.8 Schott Solar Utility-Scale Thermal Concentrating Solar 2-15

2.4 Molten Salt Solar Utility Scale Energy Market Forecast 2-16

2.5 Solar Steam Generators Market Forecast 2-19

2.5.1 Concentrating Linear Reflectors 2-22

2.5.2 Solar Thermal Molten Salt Storage Electricity Forecasts 2-22

2.6 Molten Salt Solar Storage Regional Analysis 2-29

Molten Salt Solar Product Description

3 Molten Salt Solar Storage and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) 1

3.1 Abengoa SA 1

3.1.1 Abengoa Solar Commercial Operation of Solnova 3 3

3.2 Areva / Ausra 8

3.2.1 Areva New Strategy 9

3.3 BrightSource Energy 10

3.3.1 Brightsource Energy .4 Billion In Loan Guarantees From U.S. Department Of Energy 11

3.3.2 BrightSource Energy Ivanpah Project 12

3.3.3 BrightSource Energy Luz Power Tower 550 (LPT 550) Technology 14

3.3.4 Brightsource Energy Reduced Footprint Mitigation For Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System 15

3.3.5 BrightSource Energy Mirrors 16

3.3.6 BrightSource Energy Heliostats 17

3.3.7 BrightSource Energy Heliostat Control System 19

3.3.8 BrightSource EnergyTower and Boiler 21

3.3.9 BrightSource Energy Power Block 23

3.4 United Technologies 24

3.4.1 United Technologies Hamilton Sundstrand Unit 25

3.4.2 United Technologies Hamilton Sundstrand 27

3.5 Solar Millennium Salts To Replace Oil In Parabolic Trough Power Plants 29

3.6 SolarReserve Power Towers 30

3.6.1 Solar Thermal With Molten Salt Energy Storage: SolarReserve Heads to Nevada 31

3.6.2 Solar Reserve Partnered With United Technologies 31

3.7 Siemens Energy Sector / Renewable Energy Division 33

3.7.1 Siemens Solar-Thermal Power Plant 33

3.7.2 Siemens Global Market Leader For Turbines In Solar Thermal Parabolic Trough Power Plants 34

3.7.3 Siemens Solar-Thermal Power Plant: Putting the Desert to Use 35

3.7.4 Siemens 123-MW Steam Turbine-Generator For Solar Thermal Power Plant In California 36

3.7.5 Siemens Solar Efficiency 38

3.7.6 Siemens Next-Generation Solar UVAC Receiver Increases Thermal Output Of Power Plants 39

3.8 Asahi Glass 42

3.8.1 Asahi Glass Flexible Solar Cells 42

3.9 GE 46

3.10 Hitachi 47

Molten Salt Solar Storage Technology

4. Molten Salt Thermal Storage and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Technology 4-1

4.1 Molten Salt 4-1

4.1.1 Salt Storage System Potential Issues 4-2

4.2 Molten Salts Store Solar Energy As Heat 4-3

4.2.1 Salt System Efficient At Heat Storage 4-3

4.3 Parabolic Trough Thermal Energy Storage Technology 4-4

4.3.1 Parabolic Trough 4-5

4.3.2 Thermal Energy Storage Systems 4-6

4.3.3 Thermal Energy Storage System 4-7

4.3.4 Single-Tank Thermocline 4-8

4.3.5 Direct Molten-Salt Heat Transfer Fluid 4-9

4.4 Thermal Stability Of Imidazolium Salts 4-9

4.5 Concrete Thermal Energy Storage Media 4-10

4.5.1 Phase-Change Materials 4-11

4.6 Solar Cells Achieve Power Without Maintenance 4-13

4.6.1 Internal Electrostatic Field 4-14

4.6.2 Converting Sunlight to Electricity 4-14

4.7 Thin Film Material Layers 4-16

Molten Salt Solar Company Profiles

5. Molten Salt Solar Generated Electricity Storage Company Profiles 5-1

5.1 Abengoa 5-1

5.1.1 Abengoa and Climate Change 5-2

5.2 Acciona Solar Power 5-10

5.3 Applied Materials 5-12

5.3.1 Applied Materials Segment Analysis 5-13

5.3.2 Applied Materials Silicon Segment 5-13

5.3.3 Applied Three-Dimensional (3D) ICs 5-15

5.3.4 Applied Materials Deposition 5-16

5.3.5 Applied Materials Atomic Layer Deposition 5-16

5.3.6 Applied Materials Chemical Vapor Deposition 5-17

5.3.7 Applied Materials Applied Producer CVD Platform 5-17

5.3.8 Applied Materials Low k Dielectric Films — 5-18

5.3.9 Applied Materials Lithography-Enabling Solutions 5-18

5.3.10 Applied Materials Gap Fill Films — 5-19

5.3.11 Applied Materials Strain Engineering Solutions 5-19

5.3.12 Applied Materials Epitaxial Deposition 5-20

5.3.13 Applied Materials Polysilicon Deposition — 5-20

5.3.14 Applied Materials Tungsten Deposition — 5-20

5.3.15 Applied Materials Physical Vapor Deposition 5-21

5.3.16 Applied Materials Etch 5-22

5.3.17 Applied Materials Rapid Thermal Processing 5-23

5.3.18 Applied Materials Chemical Mechanical Planarization 5-24

5.3.19 Applied Materials Metrology and Wafer Inspection 5-24

5.3.20 Applied Materials Critical Dimension and Defect Review Scanning Electron Microscopes (CD-SEMs and DR-SEMs) 5-24

5.3.21 Applied Materials Wafer Inspection 5-25

5.3.22 Applied Materials Mask Making 5-26

5.3.23 Applied Materials Display Segment 5-27

5.3.24 Applied Global Services Segment 5-27

5.3.25 Applied Materials Fab Services — 5-28

5.3.26 Applied Films Vacuum Coating Technologies 5-28

5.3.27 Applied Materials Energy and Environmental Solutions Segment 5-28

5.4 Areva / Ausra 5-33

5.4.1 AREVA Leads Global Nuclear Power Industry 5-34

5.5 Asahi Glass Co Ltd 5-35

5.5.1 Asahi Glass Fuel Cell 5-37

5.5.2 Asahi Glass Fuel Cells Close To Practical Use 5-38

5.5.3 Asahi Glass Fuel Cells In Daily Life In 2010 5-39

5.5.4 Asahi Glass Chemicals Business as Core Business to the AGC Group 5-39

5.5.5 Asahi Glass ETFE Film With High Transparency And Flexibility 5-42

5.5.6 AGC Asahi GlassRevenue 5-43

5.5.7 Asahi Glass Revenue 5-49

5.6 Battelle 5-54

5.7 BrightSource Energy 5-54

5.7.1 BrightSource Energy .4 billion In Loan Guarantees From The U.S. Department of Energy 5-55

5.7.2 BrightSource Energy Ivanpah Project: Clean Energy, Union Jobs, Environmentally-Responsible Design 5-56

5.7.3 BrightSource Energy Luz Power Tower 550 (LPT 550) Technology 5-57

5.7.4 Brightsource Energy 0 Million Of Equity Financing 5-58

5.8 Corning 5-59

5.8.1 Corning Display Technologies Segment 5-59

5.8.2 Corning Revenue 5-61

5.8.3 Corning Display Technologies Segment 5-64

5.8.4 Corning Telecommunications Segment 5-65

5.8.5 Corning Environmental Technologies Segment 5-66

5.8.6 Corning Specialty Materials Segment 5-66

5.8.7 Corning Life Sciences Segment 5-67

5.9 Directed Vapor Technology 5-67

5.9.1 Directed Vapor Deposition Next Generation Coating Technology 5-67

5.10 du Pont 5-69

5.10.1 DuPont 5-69

5.10.2 DuPont™ Kapton® 5-72

5.10.3 DuPont™ Kapton® Polyimide Films 5-72

5.10.4 DuPont Teonex 5-75

5.11 GE Energy 5-76

5.11.1 GE Steam Turbines to Boost Output, Efficiency of Saudi Electricity Company’s Qurayyah Power Plant 5-76

5.11.2 GE Emissions Testing Team Becomes Early Adopter of Future EPA Standards 5-78

5.11.3 GE Smart Grid Technologies Transform Ireland’s Energy 5-78

5.12 Hitachi 5-79

5.12.1 Hitachi America 5-82

5.12.2 Hitachi America, Ltd. Focusing On Smart Grid Energy Storage for Solar Farms 5-83

5.12.3 Hitachi Long Life Lead Acid Batteries 5-84

5.13 SCHOTT Solar 5-85

5.13.1 Schott Electronic Packaging Gmbh 5-89

5.13.2 Schott Ag Flat Glass 5-93

5.14 SEIA: 5-95

5.15 Siemens 5-95

5.15.1 Siemens Business Areas 5-97

5.15.2 Siemens Steam Turbine-Generator to England – Delivery Scheduled In 13 Months 5-100

5.15.3 Siemens Energy Sector 5-102

5.15.4 Siemens Revenue 5-103

5.15.5 Siemens’ Worldwide Network 5-103

5.16 United Technologies / SolarReserve 5-105

5.16.1 United Technologies 5-106

5.16.2 United Technologies / Hamilton Sundstrand 5-109

5.16.3 Hamilton Sundstrand Technologically Advanced Aerospace And Industrial Products 5-111

5.16.4 United Technologies Revenue 5-113

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Renewable Energy – Global Group of Eight (G8) Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the Renewable Energy industry in each of the G8 (United States, Canada, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Russia and Japan) countries. The report includes easily comparable data on market value, volume, segmentation and market share, plus full five year market forecasts. It examines future problems, innovations and potential growth areas within the market.
 
 Scope of the Report
 
 * Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation
 
 * Provides textual analysis of the industrys prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies
 
 * Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards
 
 * Compares data from the US, Canada, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Russia and Japan, alongside individual chapters on each country. .
 
 * Includes a five-year forecast of the industry
 
 Highlights
 
 The G8 countries contributed 4.7 billion in 2010 to the global renewable energy industry, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5% between 2006 and 2010.
 
 The G8 countries are expected to reach a value of 8 billion in 2015, with a CAGR of 6.9% over the 2010–15 period.
 
 Among the G8 countries, the US holds the major share of the renewable energy industry. It accounted for a share of 29.8% in 2010.
 
 Among the G8 nations, the US is the leading country in the renewable energy industry, with market revenues of .1 billion in 2010.
 
 The US is expected to lead the Renewable Energy industry in the G8 nations with a value of .3 billion in 2014
 
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 Market Definition
 
 The renewable energy market consists of the consumption of electricity generated via Geothermal, Solar, Wind and Hydroelectric means, as well as through wood and waste combustion. Data are reported as net consumption as opposed to gross consumption. Net consumption excludes the energy consumed by the generating units. The volume of the market is calculated as the volume of electricity consumed (in billions of kilowatt hours, kWh), and the market value has been calculated according to average annual renewable electricity prices. Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2010 annual average exchange rates.
     

Table of Contents :
INTRODUCTION 16
 What is this report about? 16
 Who is the target reader? 16
 Market definition 16
 GROUP OF EIGHT (G8) RENEWABLE ENERGY INDUSTRY OUTLOOK 17
 RENEWABLE ENERGY IN CANADA 24
 Market overview 24
 Market value 25
 Market volume 26
 Market segmentation 27
 Five Forces analysis 28
 Leading companies 36
 Market forecasts 48
 Macroeconomic indicators 51
 RENEWABLE ENERGY IN FRANCE 53
 Market overview 53
 Market value 54
 Market volume 55
 Market segmentation 56
 Five Forces analysis 57
 Leading companies 65
 Market forecasts 82
 Macroeconomic indicators 85
 RENEWABLE ENERGY IN GERMANY 87
 Market overview 87
 Market value 88
 Market volume 89
 Market segmentation 90
 Five Forces analysis 91
 Leading companies 98
 Market forecasts 122
 Macroeconomic indicators 125
 RENEWABLE ENERGY IN ITALY 127
 Market overview 127
 Market value 128
 Market volume 129
 Market segmentation 130
 Five Forces analysis 131
 Leading companies 138
 Market forecasts 154
 Macroeconomic indicators 158
 RENEWABLE ENERGY IN JAPAN 160
 Market overview 160
 Market value 161
 Market volume 162
 Market segmentation 163
 Five Forces analysis 164
 Leading companies 171
 Market forecasts 187
 Macroeconomic indicators 190
 RENEWABLE ENERGY IN RUSSIA 192
 Market overview 192
 Market value 193
 Market Volume 194
 Market segmentation 195
 Five Forces analysis 196
 Leading companies 203
 Market forecasts 212
 Macroeconomic indicators 216
 RENEWABLE ENERGY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 218
 Market overview 218
 Market value 219
 Market volume 220
 Market segmentation 221
 Five Forces analysis 222
 Leading companies 232
 Market forecasts 254
 Macroeconomic indicators 258
 RENEWABLE ENERGY IN THE UNITED STATES 260
 Market overview 260
 Market value 261
 Market volume 262
 Market segmentation 263
 Five Forces analysis 264
 Leading companies 273
 Market forecasts 291
 Macroeconomic indicators 295
 APPENDIX 297
 Data Research Methodology 297
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 Disclaimer 298