Assessment of Concentrating Solar Power Prospect in China

With the rapid growth of the Chinese economy and the increasing demand for electricity, the problems of energy shortage and environment pollution become more and more severe. In order to solve these problems, all options for power generation by new and renewable energies are enjoying growing attention in recent years. As one of the renewable energies power generation solar thermal power using concentrating solar collectors is potentially the lowest cost option and has no impact on the environment. China has abundant solar energy resources and large wasteland areas, which makes China an ideal country for solar thermal power generation development. In this paper, the prospect of solar thermal power generation was analyzed.