Concentrating Solar Thermal Technologies – Status, Cost and Research Trends

This article presents an overview of the status of CST technologies, their cost, and their future trends. The information regarding the trends in CST technologies is based on the informed opinion of the authors, many of which have decades of experience in the CST field in academia and industry. Thus, it does not pretend to be an exhaustive list of all lines of research and commercial innovations being explored around the world, but a summary of the lines of research that the institutions and groups that the authors belong to are explorin