Werner Platzer

Prof. Werner Platzer

Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, 79115 Freiburg, Germany
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Academic Career Length

44Years (1983-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 January 2012 in Solar Energy
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GMGabriel Morin
Gabriel Morin
JDJürgen Dersch
Jürgen Dersch
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Werner Platzer
MEMarkus Eck
Markus Eck
AHAndreas Häberle
Andreas Häberle

1 November 2019 in Solar Energy
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ACAlicia Crespo
Alicia Crespo
Camila BarrenecheCamila Barreneche
Camila Barreneche
MIMercedes Ibarra
Mercedes Ibarra
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Werner Platzer

1 September 2013 in Applied Energy
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VZVerena Zipf
Verena Zipf
ANAnton Neuhäuser
Anton Neuhäuser
DWDaniel Willert
Daniel Willert
PNPeter Nitz
Peter Nitz
SGStefan Gschwander
Stefan Gschwander
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Werner Platzer

1 July 2001 in Solar Energy
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TKTilmann E Kuhn
Tilmann E Kuhn
CBChristopher Bühler
Christopher Bühler
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Werner Platzer


1 January 2016 in AIP Conference Proceedings
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Werner Platzer
Solar thermal power plants have the advantage of being able to provide dispatchable renewable electricity even when the sun is not shining. Using thermal energy strorage (TES) they may increase the capacity factor (CF) considerably. However in order to increase the operating hours one has to increase both, thermal storage capacity and solar field size, because the additional solar field is needed to charge the storage. This increases investment cost, although levelised electricity cost (LEC) may decrease due to the higher generation. Photovoltaics as a fluctuating source on the other side has arrived at very low generation costs well below 10 ct/kWh even for Central Europe. Aiming at a capacity factor above 70% and at producing dispatchable power it is shown that by a suitable combination of CSP and PV we can arrive at lower costs than by increasing storage and solar field size in CSP plants alone