Tower CSP thermal storage initially had a tank leak problem. Vast Solar says they have the solution
Vast Solar’s fix for tank leaks that stymied the first Tower CSP
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Vast Solar going public with NETC on the NY Stock Exchange as Vast
Vast Solar now Vast with NETC on the NY Stock Exchange. The Australian firm is a previous winner of the SolarPACES Innovation Award
Vast Solar to grow Port Augusta CSP to 150 MW at old SolarReserve site
When SolarReserve proposed a 150 MW tower Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) power plant for Port Augusta, the firm was fresh off completing Crescent Dunes, the world’s first attempt at utility scale tower CSP with storage. The startup was unable to get funding to build...
Vast Solar Consortium Patents Flexitank; Prevents Thermal Storage Leaks
Press Release: A consortium that comprises Vast Solar, CyD, Solar Dynamics, Alia Energy Consulting and Critical Engineering, has jointly developed Flexitank, a novel design for high temperature molten salt thermal energy storage tanks used in CSP and standalone...
SolarPACES Award Winner Vast Solar Plans a 50MW 24/7 Australian Solar Project
Australian solar thermal developer Vast Solar has unveiled plans to take its technology into the mainstream, unveiling a $600 million proposal to build a “baseload” solar plant in Mt Isa that will combine solar thermal, solar PV, battery storage and fast-acting gas...
Sodium-based Vast Solar Combines the Best of Trough & Tower CSP to Win our Innovation Award
At the 2019 SolarPACES Conference, Vast Solar took the SolarPACES Technical Innovation Award for their use of high temperature sodium-based HTF in tower CSP, presented in their paper: Vast Solar: improving performance and reducing cost and risk using high temperature...
Vast Energy advances world’s-first solar-powered green methanol demo
Methanol has the lowest emissions of all the hydrocarbons. Using concentrated solar thermal energy to heat the thermochemistry to make it (instead of burning a fossil fuel to supply heat) and sourcing the input carbon from green sources would mean the global shipping...
Vast’s South Australia Solar Fuels (SASF) receives $700,000 in Australia-Singapore push to decarbonize shipping
Source: Solar Quarter HyFuel Solar Refinery Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Vast Renewables Limited, has been awarded AUD 700,000 through the Australia-Singapore Low Emissions Technologies (ASLET) initiative to advance the development of South Australia Solar Fuels (SA Solar...
Vast secures $40 million to build its solar fuel plant at Port Augusta to supply green methanol for shipping
News Source: RenewEconomy The developers of a solar thermal powered methanol production facility that will supply green fuel for shipping and aviation have bedded down $A40 million in funding deals that will underpin construction of the Port Augusta plant, known as...
Aluminum melted with Annular Fresnel solar at over 700°C
Solar researchers at Fraunhofer Chile have designed, built, and tested a complete solar collector and crucible system for melting and recycling aluminum, heated by Annular Fresnel solar collectors. In Annular Fresnel, each mirror is flat, like a Fresnel mirror, but...
Vast gets new funding and launches capital raise accelerating its Port Augusta Green Energy Hub
Source: Press release SYDNEY, Australia, August 11, 2025 – Vast Renewables (“Vast” or the “Company”), a leading Australian clean energy technology company, today announced that it has secured new funding from existing shareholders and launched a capital raise to...
“Solar energy that can be poured in the fuel tank”: the Aldo Steinfeld Weltwoche interview
Source: Die Weltwoche ETH professor Aldo Steinfeld is one of the pioneers of synthetic fuels. He explains how to capture the solar energy in such a way that it can be poured into the fuel tank. When will synthetic fuels, which can be handled like gasoline, diesel or...
Vast’s Cutting-Edge Clean Energy Solution Nears Market Launch After Final Testing
Source: Solar Quarter Vast Renewables Limited, an Australian clean energy company, has successfully launched a groundbreaking concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) receiver tower. Built in Goodna, Queensland, this tower is the final piece of Vast’s next-generation...
Lowest cost of heat for modular sodium CSP? A “Billboard” solar receiver with a “Cartesian” heliostat layout
High-temperature liquid sodium receivers able to run at over 700°C may allow use of modular multi-tower system configurations similar to that being developed by the Australian concentrated solar firm Vast for next-generation sodium-based concentrating solar power...
Over 50% of India’s renewables tender to be concentrated solar thermal
India has carved out an unprecedented percentage to come from concentrated solar thermal technologies in its planned renewables tender this year; over 50%. The news of the tender attracted the world’s key CSP developers and stakeholders to the International Conference...
Two CSP studies quantify a trade-off between solar efficiency and LCOE
CSP solar efficiency is compared against LCOE in multi-unit CSP with s-CO2 Brayton cycle in two recent papers, and efficiency wins
Black coating mimicking sea corals wins SolarPACES 2023 innovation award
Smiles abound at SolarPACES 2023 where the engineers behind a record-setting solar energy coating received the Technology Innovation Award. From L to R: PhD candidate Yifan Guo, Dr Juan Felipe Torres, Dr Joe Coventry, Kaoru Tsuda, CEO of Nano Frontier Technology, and...
Australia’s liquid sodium solar receiver to be on show in October
The solar receiver on view at this year’s SolarPACES Conference site tour in October will be the first that many attendees have seen. This solar receiver is designed for very high temperature liquid sodium as its heat transfer fluid up in a solar tower, with a solar...
Solar hydrogen testing begins at CSIRO conference tour site
Tests are underway on a cutting edge renewable hydrogen technology that is being backed by iron-ore billionaire Andrew Forrest to deliver a cheaper and more scalable way to produce the zero emissions fuel using concentrated sunlight.
Australia’s Vast CSP to include green methanol demo for shipping
Why Vast plans to include methanol production in their CSP project Methanol is used to make many chemicals, but what makes producing green methanol most interesting for the future is that the shipping industry, finally having to deal with climate emissions, considers...
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- Stored solar heat gets an algorithm to ensure a steady supply
- Aluminum melted with Annular Fresnel solar at over 700°C
- Tallying a year’s sun on solar calcination with sCO2 cycles
- Researchers create a digital twin to run DAWN, Synhelion’s solar fuels plant
- A buried solar receiver to melt lunar ice
- Solar vacuum pyrolysis leverages the lunar vacuum to mine oxygen
- PSA advances a solar reactor to extract oxygen from lunar ilmenite
- Solar steam from Glasspoint to decarbonize a California mine
- Startup concentrates solar to melt NASA’s lunar landing pads
- How rotating the solar receiver could cut Trough CSP land use
- New star-shaped solar receiver cuts costs and prolongs tower CSP life
- 3D-printed ceramics tested to maximize thermal energy storage in molten salts
- ARPA-E-winning thermal energy storage in sand wins commercial interest
- Sandia’s Gen-3 particle-based CSP demo to debut this fall
- Optimizing the safety factor in high temperature solar absorbers
- Finding an ideal channel geometry inside compact flow gas receivers
- New neural network tool speeds up O&M for Trough CSP
- Vast Energy advances world’s-first solar-powered green methanol demo
- New AI perfects heliostat aim to boost solar tower power
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