China now has a considerable pipeline of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), much of it to play an auxiliary role in hybrid renewable energy megacomplexes, as well as some smaller PV-CSP projects. Most of these projects use improved molten salt or thermal oil designs which are not fundamentally new. This stands in contrast to the West, where CSP has just begun a revival only due to a variety of new higher-tech designs. Most notable of these was Heliogen’s recent announcement of a project to supply 1,000-degree process heat at Rio Tinto’s borate mine in California. In the West, these new approaches seemed necessary to rescue CSP from being relegated to a mere handful of projects worldwide, with one in progress in…