{"id":77361,"date":"2018-04-03T07:23:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T14:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/path-to-a-booming-australian-solar-thermal-energy-market"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:05:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:05:21","slug":"path-to-a-booming-australian-solar-thermal-energy-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/path-to-a-booming-australian-solar-thermal-energy-market","title":{"rendered":"Path to a booming Australian solar thermal energy market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/path-to-a-booming-australian-solar-thermal-energy-market.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A report out from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) this month published responses from industry stakeholders on the viability of a concentrated solar thermal (CST) energy market in Australia: Paving the way for concentrated solar thermal in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Only 5 gigawatts (GW) of CST is deployed globally so far, with remarkable cost reductions for a technology so \u201cyoung.\u201d Submissions noted that when today\u2019s 300 GW of PV had only 5 GW of deployed capacity in 2004, its LCOE was ten times that of CST.<\/p>\n<p>CST\u2019s dispatchable solar could play a pivotal role in Australia with its need for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/energy\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy<\/a> that can meet obligations for both emissions reductions and reliability, because with its ability to store its solar energy in molten salts for delivery later, CST can offer a stable and predictable supply of solar energy at any time of day or night.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-04-path-booming-australian-solar-thermal.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;04-path-booming-australian-solar-thermal.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report out from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) this month published responses from industry stakeholders on the viability of a concentrated solar thermal (CST) energy market in Australia: Paving the way for concentrated solar thermal in Australia. Only 5 gigawatts (GW) of CST is deployed globally so far, with remarkable cost reductions for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77381,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77361\/revisions\/77381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}