Abstract :
A lack of government support pulled the rug from under the fledgling Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) industry. Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) industry has been striving for many years to achieve, despite a false dawn in the 1980s when CSP´s early pioneer (Luz International, which built nine CSP plants in California´s Mojave Desert) went bankrupt. This signalled the start of a dormant period as CSP technology gradually faded into the background of the renewable electricity sector, surpassed by robust interest in the more ´glamorous´ technology of PV.
