What is the difference between solar photo voltaic and concentrated solar power?
Among tens of differences: PV technology directly converts solar radiation into electricity via the photovoltaic effect. On the other hand, CSP technologies indirectly convert concentrated solar radiation into electricity via a heat engine (e.g., Rankine cycle, Stirling engine,etc.) where the heat-addition process is completed using a thermal receiver to convert solar radiation into thermal energy instead of the conventional combustion chamber that converts a fuel's chemical energy into thermal energy in a conventional heat engine.
Bear in mind that concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) technologies also use concentrated solar radiation.
Industry-level PV technologies are static, more expensive, less common, require less land, less mature, and generally less efficient than CSP technologies. This is primarily due to the fact that in a CSP plant, the power block is a typical power generation cycle (which is both widely-commercialized and well-developed).
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Dear Arif
If I understand your question correctly,
SPV is Solar Photo-Voltaic (usually photovoltaic panel, direct solar light to electrical power conversion)
CSP Concentrating Solar Power (usually parabolic dish, solar light thermal energy collection)
Gerro
Among tens of differences: PV technology directly converts solar radiation into electricity via the photovoltaic effect. On the other hand, CSP technologies indirectly convert concentrated solar radiation into electricity via a heat engine (e.g., Rankine cycle, Stirling engine,etc.) where the heat-addition process is completed using a thermal receiver to convert solar radiation into thermal energy instead of the conventional combustion chamber that converts a fuel's chemical energy into thermal energy in a conventional heat engine.
Bear in mind that concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) technologies also use concentrated solar radiation.
Industry-level PV technologies are static, more expensive, less common, require less land, less mature, and generally less efficient than CSP technologies. This is primarily due to the fact that in a CSP plant, the power block is a typical power generation cycle (which is both widely-commercialized and well-developed).
Hope this helps.
Solar Photo Voltaic as you simply put it, is a system use to convert sunlight to electricity directly while C.S.P is a system use to harvest sunlight then convert to heat and subsequently electricity
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