Abstract: . . .  Market volume in MUS$ 38 PART FIVE CSP SPECIAL – SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN PART FIVE: CSP SPECIAL – SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN PART FIVE: CSP SPECIAL – SOLAR THERMAL POWER PLANTS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN Any renewable energy supply strategy aiming to take over the major part of electricity supply in the decades to come has to consider Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) as this technology option is capable of contributing with reliable, dispatchable power, specifically for daytime-demand peaks. The stress on today’s energy economies are already visible: Southern Spain as well as the USA’s South-west states are experiencing peaking power black-outs, mainly associated with their huge demand for air-conditioning. . . .
. . .  Illustration, Hamburg © www.photon-pictures.com T: +32 2 672 43 67 F: +32 672 70 16 Contact: Rainer Aringhoff www.solarmillennium.de Picture credits p. 1, 7, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 39, 43 Email: aringhoff@solarmillennium.de IEA SolarPACES Implementing Agreement Avenida de la Paz 51 Spain 04720 Aguadulce (Almeria) T: +34 950550725 F: +34 950343112 Email: exsec@solarpaces.org www.solarpaces.org Printed on recycled paper Dr. Michael Geyer, Executive Secretary  . . .
. . .  proposed below. If the benefits of CSP are to be spread globally, it is essential that participating industrial countries outside the sun belt either support investments in sun belt countries and/or allow imports of solar power at cost-covering rates, thereby stimulating investment in CSP plants. Required elements of the CSP GMI A visible, reliable and growing market for solar thermal power with normal risk levels must be established in order for project developers and CSP equipment suppliers to make the necessary long-term investments to achieve acceptable investment costs, and hence competitive rates. The following policy areas will have the greatest impact on the use of concentrating solar power. Each country or state participating in the CSP . . .
. . .  CSP electricity costs. In Region I, additional political support is needed to make targets, policies and tariffs stable and predictable so that commercial financing can be secured. • Region II includes those countries that are or will soon be connected to Region I countries for transnational power exchange. Countries in Region II include Algeria, Morocco and Mexico. Solar power generated from CSP plants in these countries could be exported to Region I countries at a much more attractive price than generating it from the inferior solar resource in Region I. As a result of their excellent solar radiation resources and good grid connections, South-west USA and northern Mexico, as well as southern Europe and North Africa, offer such cross-border . . .
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