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The SSPS solar facilities use concentration as a method of collecting solar thermal energy to make electricity. Consequently, the environment and how the environment affects atmospheric transparency, reflectivity and the rate of reflectivity change, is of major interest in the evaluation of these systems. Considerable effort was expended at the SSPS site to measure the elements of the environment and to understand those elements which modified the expected performance of these systems. A lesson learned from this effort was that extensive measurement of reflectivity provided the result of the enviromental affect and that it was much more difficult to completely understand the elements that caused the result.
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Kesselring, P., Selvage, C.S. (1986). Environmental Conditions — Reflectivity. In: Kesselring, P., Selvage, C.S. (eds) The IEA/SSPS Solar Thermal Power Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82682-5_4
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