CSP News & Analysis
- Fraunhofer-Chile finds PV-CSP combo has better LCOE than gas 17 Jan 2023
- Solar energy record: Mongolian CSP generated round the clock 10 Jan 2023
- SolarSteam wins recognition for Canadian climate tech 8 Jan 2023
- Consortium to demonstrate nitrogen for fertilizer from biosolids using solar thermal 17 Dec 2022
- Innovation in its volumetric absorber takes OVR efficiency to 90% 15 Dec 2022
- Sodium heat transfer to Magnesia gets storage test 5 Dec 2022
- Denmark’s solar district heat leadership due to great policies 23 Nov 2022
- DLR finds CST is the Goldilocks renewable to decarbonize German industry 17 Oct 2022
- China’s 2050 power could be Zero Carbon for under 1% of GDP: study 12 Oct 2022
- At SolarPACES 2022, Heliogen talks up solar heat efficiency for mines 4 Oct 2022
- The business case for storing energy thermally in former coal plants 5 Sep 2022
- BA student devises algorithm to optimize Tower CSP preheating strategy 2 Sep 2022
- How hot solar aviation fuel (thermochemistry heated by solar mirrors) took off 10 Aug 2022
- On-Sun Test of Novel Solar Combined-Cycle Finds… 1 Aug 2022
- Vast Solar to grow Port Augusta CSP to 150 MW at old SolarReserve site 18 Jul 2022
- China Announces Another 1.3 GW of CSP with 12,000 MWh of Thermal Storage 7 Jul 2022
- Paper Shows How Dispatchable CSP Can Solve the EU Gas Crisis 9 Jun 2022
- Bill Gates-funded startup Rondo turns Solar or Wind into Heat 1 Jun 2022
- Will the US Demo Long-duration Energy Storage in Time? 12 May 2022
- Mining Tech shows How Particle CSP can Hoist Tons of Hot Sand 21 Apr 2022
Recent Journal Publications
- Published at Joule – A solar tower fuel plant for the thermochemical production of kerosene from H2O and CO2 28 Jan 2023
- Published in Case Studies in Thermal Engineering-Comparison study of thermoclinic heat storage tanks using different liquid metals for concentrated solar power 23 Jan 2023
- Published at ACS – Synthesis, Experimental, and Theoretical Study of Co3–xNixO4 Mixed Oxides: Potential Candidates for Hydrogen Production via Solar Redox Cycles 17 Jan 2023
- Published at Sustainable Energy & Fuels – Kinetic investigation of solar chemical looping reforming of methane over Ni–CeO2 at low temperature 17 Jan 2023
- Published at Thermal Science and Engineering Progress – Design and steady-state simulation of a CSP-ORC power plant using an open-source co-simulation framework combining SAM and DWSIM: 27 Dec 2022
- Published at Energies – Experimental Investigation on the Vector Characteristics of Concentrated Solar Radiation Flux Map: 27 Dec 2022
- Published at the Journal of Energy Storage – Nanoparticle-based anticorrosion coatings for molten salts applications: 27 Dec 2022
- Published at Applied Thermal Engineering – Hierarchical Control of Multi-Generation Solar Thermal Power Plant: 26 Dec 2022
- Decarbonizing the German industrial thermal energy use with solar, hydrogen, and other options–Recommendations for the world 16 Dec 2022
CSP News Briefs
- US and China lead in thermal energy storage patents 17 Jan 2023
- 1414 Degrees readies silicon for its high temperature thermal energy storage 8 Jan 2023
- Heliocon seeks heliostat cost reduction to $50 per square meter 24 Dec 2022
- New DOE solar technologies funding for early stage CSP / CST direct heat 14 Dec 2022
- DLR study: potential for low cost solar fuels in the MENA region 10 Dec 2022
- Solar furnace to melt steel at 2000°C for Swiss recycler Panatère 7 Dec 2022
- The race for solar megaprojects in North Africa that attracts Europeans 6 Dec 2022
- Shanghai Electric CSP starts sending overnight solar power to Dubai grid 4 Dec 2022
- Hydroxide molten salts tested in 20 MW thermal energy storage trial 25 Nov 2022
- Auction failure curtails CSP in Spain’s Ecological Transition 19 Nov 2022
- China now has 30 CSP projects with thermal energy storage underway 9 Oct 2022
- Abengoa wins Solar Project of the Year award for 600 MW trough CSP at NOOR 4 Oct 2022
- Solar heat to decarbonize industries gets $13 million boost from DOE 1 Oct 2022
- SolarPACES Conference Sept 27-30 Plenary Highlights 17 Sep 2022
- China seeks bids to build nine CSP plants 17 Sep 2022
- Synhelion produces first solar syngas in Wood’s industrial-scale reforming reactor 20 Aug 2022
- Registration Opens for SolarPACES Conference in Albuquerque, USA 2 Aug 2022
- Another 400 MW of Chinese CSP Starts in Xinjiang Province 25 Jul 2022
- Spain Finally Names CSP Auction Date: October 25 Jul 2022
- Submit Particle-CSP Papers for Solar Energy’s Special Issue 22 Jul 2022