PMID- 37519651
OWN - NLM
STAT- Publisher
LR  - 20230731
IS  - 2405-8440 (Print)
IS  - 2405-8440 (Electronic)
IS  - 2405-8440 (Linking)
VI  - 9
IP  - 7
DP  - 2023 Jul
TI  - A feasibility assessment of utilizing concentrated solar power (CSP) in the 
      Zimbabwean regions of Hwange and Lupane.
PG  - e18210
LID - 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18210 [doi]
LID - e18210
AB  - The current study assesses the feasibility of Zimbabwe's Hwange and Lupane 
      regions to host a large-scale Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) facility. The 
      study's overarching goal is to aid in identifying, classifying, and validating 
      suitable sites for hosting a CSP facility. In this paper, suitable sites are 
      identified and classified by coupling the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) 
      technique (specifically the analytical hierarchy process, abbreviated AHP) and 
      geographic information system (GIS) software. Following the identification of 
      suitable regions, the validation is carried out by technical and economic 
      measures. As a specific criterion for decision-making, a geographic database was 
      developed utilizing layers provided by various data sets on irradiance, 
      orography, location, and water resources. The final maps using special tools in 
      ArcGIS Pro revealed that the land available for concentrating solar power in 
      Hwange and Lupane is 1792 km(2) (5.6% of the study area) and 3771 km(2) (11.9% of 
      the study area), respectively. A Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) of the theoretical 
      power potential revealed that suitable sites in Hwange and Lupane could 
      technically generate power ranging from 380.0 TWh/year to 477.5 TWh/year and 
      878.8 TWh/year to 1125.0 TWh/year, respectively. The CSP facility without a 
      thermal energy storage (TES) facility has a $ cost per kWh of 0.1879, while the 
      CSP-TES hybrid costs 0.1468. The LCOE for CSP without TES and CSP with TES is $ 
      0.0679 and $ 0.0268 higher than Zimbabwe's electricity cost, respectively. 
      Overall, results suggest that Lupane is an excellent location for CSP facilities 
      and supports policymakers in establishing renewable energy tariffs, resulting in 
      economic and sustainable development.
CI  - (c) 2023 The Author. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
FAU - Mutume, Bruce
AU  - Mutume B
AD  - Middle East Technical University, Sustainable Environment and Energy Systems 
      Department, Kalkanli, Guzelyurt, Mersin 10, Turkey.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230713
PL  - England
TA  - Heliyon
JT  - Heliyon
JID - 101672560
PMC - PMC10372389
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Analytic hierarchy process
OT  - Concentrated solar power
OT  - Renewable energy
OT  - Sustainability
OT  - Zimbabwe
COIS- The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or 
      personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in 
      this paper.
EDAT- 2023/07/31 06:43
MHDA- 2023/07/31 06:43
PMCR- 2023/07/13
CRDT- 2023/07/31 04:39
PHST- 2023/02/10 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/07/06 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2023/07/11 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/07/31 06:43 [medline]
PHST- 2023/07/31 06:43 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/07/31 04:39 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/07/13 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S2405-8440(23)05418-X [pii]
AID - e18210 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18210 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Heliyon. 2023 Jul 13;9(7):e18210. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18210. eCollection 
      2023 Jul.