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In 2021, the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) estimated the cost of electricity from concentrated solar with 10 hours of storage at $0.076 per kWh in 2021, $0.056 per kWh in 2030, and $0.052 per kWh in 2050. In 2007, companies such as ESolar (then backed by Google ) were developing cheap, low maintenance, mass producible heliostat components that were to reduce costs in the near future. ESolar''s design used large numbers of small mirrors (1.14 m ), to reduce costs for inst
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