Public support schemes for the deployment of plants

Abstract

Several national and regional governments have implemented incentive programs to promote CSP deployment around the world. These public promotion schemes have been the main driver of CSP deployment. Although Spain and USA have been the main leaders, other countries have recently emerged and have a presence in the CSP market and still others can be expected to be so in the future. This section provides a discussion of the promotion policies which have been used to encourage the uptake of CSP from selected countries from around the world. These countries represent around 99% of total CSP capacity currently being deployed.