CSP technologies use mirrors to reflect and concentrate sunlight onto a receiver. This heat - also known as thermal energy - can be used to spin a turbine or power an engine to generate. Concentrated solar power (CSP), also called concentrating solar power or concentrated solar thermal, involves systems that collect solar heat for multiple purposes like cooking, desalination, or the generation of electric solar power, by using mirrors to concentrate a large area of sunlight toward. This Amonix system in Las Vegas, US, consists of thousands of small Fresnel lenses, each focusing sunlight to ≈500x higher intensity onto a tiny, high-efficiency multi-junction solar cell. A Tesla Roadster is parked beneath for scale. Concentrator photovoltaics (CPV), also called concentrating. Noor Energy 1, the 950 MW Hybrid Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) and PV plant, is the 4th phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Plant and the largest single -site CSP and single hybrid solar power project in the world. Since the solar boom of the eighties in USA, solar thermal energy has. A solar concentrator is a device designed to focus and concentrate solar radiation, and its application can be both in the generation of solar thermal energy and in the generation of solar photovoltaic energy.