The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is ramping up its CSP
research, development, and deployment efforts, leveraging both
industry partners and the national laboratories. DOE’s goals
include increasing the use of CSP in the United States, making
CSP competitive in the intermediate power market by 2015. DOE’s
goals also include developing advanced technologies that will
reduce systems and storage costs, enabling CSP to be competitive
in the baseload power market by 2020. DOE plans to achieve these
goals through cost-shared contracts with industry, advanced
research at its national laboratories, and collaboration with
other government agencies to remove barriers to deploying the
technology. About Concentrated solar power Concentrating Solar
Power is a technology to convert solar radiation into
electricity. CSP technologies use mirrors or lenses to
concentrate light energy from the sun. This light energy is
converted to heat to create steam to drive a turbine that
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