A growing number of experts believe that integrating CSP technology with Brazil’s vast and expanding fleet of biomass-fired power stations can create a multi-gigawatt industry providing 100% renewable energy around the clock 365 days a year.
While still largely untested, the idea is attracting some of the CSP world’s heaviest hitters, including Spain’s Abengoa, and the Brazilian government recently expanded an R&D programme for stand-alone CSP to include such hybrid plants.
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