Re: Solar Thermal

I wish it was my chance!

The proposal fits nicely with what we're doing, but the "openness" of the RFP is dubious at best...  There is a clause in the qualifications that they have demonstrated the operation of a similar plant of at least 25MW for at least 1 year.  There aren't too many companies that can claim that right now.

In fact, there is a table in the materials that lists the only 8 companies that they expect proposals from.  I didn't see an 'other' designation.

That's OK, I don't know if I could actually get my head around a 250MW plant at this time.  Our systems are designed and optimized in the 250kW range...  That's a factor of 1000.  

While I am absolutely certain we could produce the volume of collectors required, in a month or so, I don't know if our prime mover will scale by a factor of 10x in all three directions...

Perhaps coupling our collectors to an existing large turbine would work for this model.