太阳能发电是太阳能科学研究中的重点项目之一,许多国家都十分重视,投入了大量的人力和物力,发展比较快。太阳能发电可分为太阳光发电和太阳热发电两大类。太阳光发电主要利用太阳电池来实现。太阳热发电是利用集热器把太阳辐射能转变成热能,然后通过发电机来发电。太阳热发电以温度来分,又有低温、中温、高温发电三种。太阳能低温热发电,目前已有数十套装置在非洲、拉丁美洲一些国家运行。太阳能高温发电正处于试验研究阶段,塔式发电是其中的方案之一。塔式发电投资高、技术难度大,比较适用于大、中型太阳能电站。美国、日本等工业发达国家均开展了这方面的研究。各国已建成一批试验电站,目前大 Solar power generation is one of the key projects in solar energy scientific research, and many countries attach great importance to it and invest a great deal of manpower and material resources to develop it relatively fast. Solar power can be divided into solar power and solar thermal power two categories. Solar power is mainly used to achieve solar power. Solar thermal power is the use of solar collectors to solar radiation into heat energy, and then through the generator to generate electricity. Solar thermal power points to the temperature, there are low temperature, temperature, high temperature power generation three. Solar thermal power generation, there are dozens of sets of devices in Africa, Latin America, some countries run. Solar thermal power generation is in the experimental phase of research, tower power generation is one of the programs. High cost of tower power generation, technical difficulty, more suitable for large and medium-sized solar power plants. The United States, Japan and other industrialized countries have carried out research in this area. Countries have completed a number of experimental power station, at present large