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For concentrating solar power technologies, NREL features the following online solar radiation resource data and solar resource maps, as well as data for renewable energy power plants.
Also see TroughNet's data and resources specifically for parabolic trough technology.
Features the direct-normal solar radiation map of the U.S. Southwest (PDF 2.2 MB), as well as filtered direct-normal solar radiation maps for the U.S. Southwest states and the Solar Power Prospector tool to assess specific regions.
Provides a variety of solar radiation resources, including data files and collection activities, solar spectra information, solar codes and algorithms, solar models, solar calculators, and publications.
This section of NREL's Power Technologies Energy Databook Web site includes a technology profile for concentrating solar power.
You can use this conversion tool on NREL's Power Technologies Energy Databook Web site to convert electricity from renewable sources—including concentrating solar power—into equivalent household energy needs and displaced emissions.
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