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CSP News & Analysis
Add Nickel to Ceria for Solar Syngas at just 700°C 29 Mar 2023
Water-cooled window for hot solar receivers over 1500°C 17 Mar 2023
Successful PROMES-CNRS thermocline test of latent/sensible heat storage 8 Mar 2023
Are there still careers in solar energy innovation? 6 Feb 2023
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
Recent Journal Publications
Published at Applied Energy – High-temperature heat recovery from a solar reactor for the thermochemical redox splitting of H2O and CO2 21 Mar 2023
Published at Sustainable Energy & Fuels – Methane dry reforming via a ceria-based redox cycle in a concentrating solar tower 14 Mar 2023
Published at Progress in Energy and Combustion Science – Opportunities and challenges in using particle circulation loops for concentrated solar power applications 24 Feb 2023
Published at Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells-Preparation and thermal property characterization of NaCl–Na2CO3–Na2SO4 eutectic salt mixed with carbon nanomaterials for heat storage 13 Feb 2023
Published at Journal of Energy Storage – Self-assembly CuO surface decorated with NiAl2O4 for high-temperature thermochemical energy storage: Excellent performance and strong interaction mechanism 4 Feb 2023
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
CSP News Briefs
Women in CSP networking event on March 15 midday CET 13 Mar 2023
DOE seeks stakeholder R&D advice to advance solar fuels 9 Mar 2023
2022 Blue Book on China’s CSP industry launched 8 Mar 2023
Sandia breaks ground on its Gen-3 particle-based CSP tech demo 18 Feb 2023
Vast Solar going public with NETC on the NY Stock Exchange as Vast 15 Feb 2023
DOE allots $1.6 billion to decarbonize coal country 14 Feb 2023
Women in CSP group attracts over 100 initial members, starts website 11 Feb 2023
Green hydrogen shipping breakthrough: HySiLabs 10 Feb 2023
50 MW Hami Tower CSP project with novel STELLIO heliostats commissioned in China 9 Feb 2023
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
Women in Concentrated Solar initiative created 2 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