Technical data for concentrated solar power plants in operation, under construction and in project.

This article presents technical data for concentrated solar power (CSP) plants in operation, under construction and in project all over the world in the form of tables. These tables provide information about plants (e.g., name of the CSP plant, country of construction, owner of the plant, aim of the plant) and their technical characteristics (e.g., CSP technology, solar power, area of the plant, presence and type of hybridization system, electricity cost, presence and type of TES, power cycle fluid, heat transfer fluid, operating temperature, operating pressure, type of turbine, type and duration of storage, etc.). Further interpretation of the data and discussions on the current state-of-the-art and future trends of CSP can be found in the associated research article (Pelay et al., 2017) [1].

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Value of the data

A detailed database for the technical data of CSP plants all over the world

Make possible an analysis of actual state-of-the-art of CSP plants

Make possible an analysis of future trends on CSP plants

Data

Technical data for concentrated solar power (CSP) plants in operation, under construction and in project all over the world in the form of tables. These tables provide information about plants (e.g., name of the CSP plant, country of construction, owner of the plant, aim of the plant) and their technical characteristics (e.g., CSP technology, solar power, area of the plant, presence and type of hybridization system, electricity cost, presence and type of TES, power cycle fluid, heat transfer fluid, operating temperature, operating pressure, type of turbine, type and duration of storage, etc.). Further interpretation of the data and discussions on the current state-of-the-art and future trends of CSP can be found in the associated research article [1].

Experimental design, materials and methods

First, a large part of the data have been collected from the websites “cspworld.org” and “globalenergyobservatory.org”. Then a detailed research has also been made for each identified CSP plant on its proper website or related documents so as to find additional information.

Subject area	Energy
More specific subject area	Solar Energy
Type of data	Table
How data was acquired	Survey
Data format	Raw
Experimental factors	Not applicable
Experimental features	Not applicable
Data source location	Not applicable
Data accessibility	Data are with this article