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CSP News & Analysis

  • 3D-printed ceria is a game-changer to increase solar fuel efficiency November 24, 2023
  • Methane Pyrolysis in a Liquid Metal Bubble Column Reactor
    Methane pyrolysis with liquid metals in a bubble column reactor to generate green hydrogen and carbon November 20, 2023
  • CSP hybridized with MED desalination payback times
    CSP desalination siting tool demonstrated in Australia November 1, 2023
  • Heliostats get a concentration boost by bending and twisting the mirror with a mechanical frame
    Heliostat concentration boosted by shape-shifting glass September 25, 2023
  • The “cold” (500 C) sodium comes into the center panels in the receiver and then in a serpentine pattern flows up and down through five panels on each side. The tubes are bent at the top and bottom like springs to help relieve some of the stress due to thermal expansion as the receivers heat up.
    Australia’s liquid sodium solar receiver to be on show in October September 18, 2023
  • Maersk green methanol ships
    Australia’s Vast CSP to include green methanol demo for shipping September 6, 2023
  • Crescent Dunes is now delivering solar energy at night in Nevada
    What happened with Crescent Dunes? August 23, 2023
  • How can Synhelion's solar receiver reach such high temperatures?
    How can Synhelion’s solar receiver achieve such high temperatures? August 16, 2023
  • Cargo shipping will be very different in 2050. Increasingly, the shipping industry is looking at green ammonia fuel to decarbonize
    Sandia’s green ammonia research matters for a global shipping future July 21, 2023
  • Three Gorges’ new Chinese CSP project tries a double solar field July 14, 2023
  • “Now a lot of our pipeline of companies that we’re in discussion with is in Australia, where electricity prices are high, so electrifying is just far too expensive,” he said.
    Australian mining to decarbonize with GlassPoint’s solar steam July 12, 2023
  • AELIUS to champion green ammonia for China’s shipping June 22, 2023
  • Fractal textured metal prevents corrosion in Gen3 CSP
    Fractal corrosion fix in Gen3 CSP by Ranga Pitchumani June 9, 2023
  • Thermochemical energy storage to deliver Gen3 solar 365 days/yr June 1, 2023
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SolarPACES Announcements

  • SolarPACES Lifetime Achievement Award 2023 Robert Pitz-Paal and Eduardo Zarza
    SolarPACES celebrates the lifetime achievements of Robert Pitz-Paal and Eduardo Zarza
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CSP Tech Explainers

  • How solar fuels work: thermochemistry
  • How CSP Works: Tower, Trough, Fresnel or Dish
  • How solar thermal energy storage works
  • Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) used to be seen as competing with solar PV, but actually it competes with natural gas to stabilize the grid
    How solar thermal power replicates the grid services of natural gas power plants

Recent Journal Publications

  • Published at Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews – Massive grid-scale energy storage for next-generation concentrated solar power: A review of the potential emerging concepts November 23, 2023
  • Published at Chemical Energy Journal Advances – Experimental study on the kinetics of magnesium carbonate calcination under elevated heating rates November 3, 2023
  • Published at Chemical Engineering Transactions – Assessment of the Techno-economic Viability of the Optimal CSP Plant Technology in Egypt’s Climate October 25, 2023
  • Published at Chemical Engineering Science – Experimental screening of metal nitrides hydrolysis for green ammonia synthesis via solar thermochemical looping October 25, 2023
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CSP News Briefs

  • 2023 Heliostat-Prize
    US DOE announces nine heliostat prize semi-finalists November 18, 2023
  • Future-oriented climate planning led to China prioritizing CSP November 17, 2023
  • Join: EuroPaTMoS webinar on molten salt with parabolic trough – Nov 8 November 2, 2023
  • Eurotrough for CSP in Tibet
    EuroTrough chosen for China’s latest CSP in Tibet October 29, 2023
  • Summer school SFERA
    Fifty new concentrated solar inventors take SFERA summer school October 27, 2023
  • Glasspoint to build a factory in Saudi Arabia to mass-produce its gigantic lightweight trough solar collectors for industrial steam
    Saudi factory to mass-produce Glasspoint’s solar steam technology October 25, 2023
  • Chilean President to visit Cosin Solar CSP project in China October 23, 2023
  • Black coating mimicking sea corals wins SolarPACES 2023 innovation award October 19, 2023
  • Concentrated solar increases heat market share
    Concentrated solar increases industrial steam market share October 6, 2023
  • The long delayed Shagaya solar project is finally underway. Kuwait already has one 50 MW CSP project, which has been in operation since 2019. Now it has begun the bidding for an additional 200 MW of CSP.
    Kuwait’s RFP for 200 MW of CSP has begun October 4, 2023
  • DEWA 700 MW CSP project caps 200 MW more Trough October 4, 2023
  • Cosin Solar now supplies 1 GW of China's tower CSP
    Cosin Solar now supplies 1 GW of China’s tower CSP September 28, 2023
  • Tibet to get new CSP project
    China to build 100 MW of tower CSP in Tibet September 22, 2023
  • DOE solar funding opportunity
    $30 million in DOE funding for solar thermal fuel, heat, or storage September 22, 2023
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