Value chain · CLM-0191
In plain terms
This 2022 report is one of two parallel studies the European Space Agency commissioned on the costs and benefits of space solar power: this one used the CASSIOPeiA design and was done by Frazer-Nash with London Economics; the report says the other, by Roland Berger and OHB on a different design, was done independently.
The claim as recorded
This study was commissioned by the European Space Agency (ESA Contract No. 4000137390/22/NL/GLC) from Frazer-Nash Consultancy "in partnership with London Economics," using CASSIOPeiA (International Electric Company's design) as its reference architecture; the same report discloses that "a parallel study was commissioned by ESA to consider the same topic but focusing on a different SBSP architecture," carried out independently "by a partnership of Roland Berger and OHB."
Scope and limits
This claim establishes provenance only; it does not itself carry a cost or carbon figure. The Roland Berger and OHB parallel study is held: its executive brochure is SRC-203 and its five technical notes are SRC-204 to SRC-208, and its results are recorded at CLM-0710 and CLM-1416. The "entirely independent" wording needs its context: the same report (PDF p.9, section 2.2.3, Workshops) says "The first workshop took place on 25th March 2022 ... This workshop was jointly delivered by both the Frazer-Nash and Roland Berger led study consortiums delivering parallel but independent studies. The second workshop was delivered solely by the Frazer-Nash led partnership, to ensure that emerging findings from each study did not influence the other." The two studies share a first stakeholder workshop, which matters when CLM-0710 or CLM-1416 is read as corroboration of this cluster.
What it assumes
No assumptions are recorded against this claim.
Where it comes from
Title page (PDF p.1), from the top: "In partnership with" above the London Economics logo, which is an image (read at the render), and below the title "Prepared for: European Space Agency". "The European Space Agency (ESA) commissioned Frazer-Nash Consultancy (Frazer-Nash), in partnership with London Economics to carry out a study on cost-benefit analysis of space-based solar power generation (SBSP) for terrestrial needs... The study used CASSIOPeiA... as its reference design architecture." "A parallel study was commissioned by ESA to consider the same topic but focusing on a different SBSP architecture. This parallel study, carried out by a partnership of Roland Berger and OHB was entirely independent to the study presented in this report." (Introduction, PDF p.6; the contract number is in the copyright notice and the document-control block on PDF p.2.)
Basis: not applicable (provenance claim)
Related records
- Answers question
- QST-005 not published in this release
Cite this
energyaperture.com/c/clm-0191
CLM-0191, Energy Aperture, as of 2022-07.
Connected records
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