Sector I.3: CSP Market Development

The objective of Sector 3 is to identify, track, and facilitate entry into emerging markets of Concentrating Solar Power worldwide. Sandia National Laboratories acts as Sector leader.

This Sector addresses the collection and distribution to So-larPACES members of information about emerging market op-portunities; the quantification of requirements and resources associated with each market or project; and market contacts for follow up actions. A second part of this activity involves de-veloping contacts with the emerging markets, providing infor-mation about CSP to market representatives, and, if appropriate, arranging for information meetings on CSP technologies. A third activity is to identify and find ways to address barriers to CSP en-try into specific projects or emerging market area. The Global Market Initiative started in this sector before becoming an activity of its own within SolarPACES.