ExCo Representative
Somila Xosa
Department of Science and Technology
Somila.Xosa(at)dst.gov.za
ExCo Alternate
Vikesh Rajpaul
Eskom
RajpauVI(at)eskom.co.za
South Africa
CSP News & Analysis
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
CEMEX and Synhelion ace the First “Hot Solar” Cement Trial 12 Apr 2022
How China’s Cosin Solar Solved Some Tower CSP Challenges 22 Mar 2022
How Did Cosin Solar Tower CSP Reach Projected Performance So Fast? 16 Mar 2022
Researchers in Australia Investigate Open Vortex Solar Receiver for Thermochemistry at 1000°C 24 Feb 2022
NREL Results Support Cheap Long Duration Energy Storage in Hot Sand 8 Feb 2022
Namibia to De-Risk CSP with Permitted Siting and BOOT Finance 7 Feb 2022
World’s Largest Energy Firm to Build Three Chinese CSP Projects 24 Jan 2022
China’s Big State-Owned Firms Begin New CSP for 2024 24 Jan 2022
Volateq Brings Drone Monitoring Subscriptions for Trough Solar Thermal Energy 16 Dec 2021
New Sulfur-Based Solar Reactor Makes Cheap Green Hydrogen for Copper Mines 14 Dec 2021
Absolicon Investigates Wastewater Sludge Drying with 140°C Solar Heat 12 Dec 2021
Hot Solar Biomass Gasifier Makes Clean Hydrogen-Rich Syngas 17 Nov 2021
Advance Hot Solar Fuels with “Spillover” Policies 9 Nov 2021
The Economics of Running CSP as a Capacity Resource in the 100% Renewable Future 20 Oct 2021
Why Likana’s 24-Hour Solar Bid under $34/MWh Lost in Chile 14 Oct 2021
Have Heliostat Cost Cuts Helped Likana Bid CSP Under 4 Cents? 30 Sep 2021
Why Lunar Engineering is an Exciting R&D Field for the “Hot Solar” 27 Sep 2021
New Strategies Needed to Sell Solar Heat for Mining 9 Sep 2021
Auto Turbocharger to Power Solar-Heated Air for Industrial Drying 28 Aug 2021
Can a new kind of CSP be a game changer? 9 Aug 2021
A Nanotech Cermet Coating is Just One of Many Gen3 CSP Innovations 22 Jul 2021
Beam-Down Demos First Direct Solar Storage at 1/2 MWh Scale 7 Jul 2021
Synhelion and Top Hydrogen Firm Advance Solar Hydrogen 23 Jun 2021
How a Bank Resurrected SolarReserve’s Redstone CSP with ACWA Power 7 Jun 2021-
The Fastest Route to Commercialize Solar Hydrogen – is through Australian Copper Mines? 24 May 2021
How a DOE Solar Desalination Award Detoured an Oil Industry Startup’s Plan 23 May 2021
100 GWh of Long Duration Energy Storage from MIT 14 Apr 2021
For 100% Renewables, DOE Speeds-up Storage Policy 1 Apr 2021
Could a Perovskite make Cheaper Solar Hydrogen? 10 Mar 2021
Aalborg CSP to Retrofit Coal Plants into Thermal Energy Storage 28 Feb 2021
MIT Proposes PV to Discharge Energy from 2,400°C Silicon Thermal Storage 15 Feb 2021
First-of-its-Kind Experiment with Liquid Metals in Thermocline Energy Storage at Karlsruhe 27 Jan 2021
HelioHeat Commercializes the DLR 1000°C Solar Receiver CentRec® 5 Jan 2021
TEXEL Explores US Market for 2-Cent Thermal Energy Storage in Metal Hydrides 21 Dec 2020
To Make Green Ammonia, US Researchers Design a Novel Solar Process 8 Dec 2020
CEMEX and Synhelion to Demo Zero CO2 Cement 20 Nov 2020
In South Africa and Spain, CSP is Meeting or Exceeding Projected Operation Targets 27 Oct 2020
Aalborg CSP Cuts Tubing Costs up to 42% with an Asymmetric Receiver 21 Oct 2020
At the SolarPACES Conference, Heliogen Introduces Solar Heat at 1 cent/kWh 13 Oct 2020
Xavier Lara on How Spain’s Q4 Auction Can Achieve the 5 GW of CSP it Wants 17 Sep 2020
Where Very Hot Solar Thermochemistry Research is Today: What’s Needed Next 7 Sep 2020
Spanish Start-up Innovates Solar Steam Modules for Industries 21 Aug 2020
Could Congress Commission a Government Agency Like WAPA to Build CSP? 11 Aug 2020
Australian Researchers Assess the Commercial Viability of Solar Alumina Calcining 3 Aug 2020
Promising Test Results for Molten Salts in Trough CSP 23 Jul 2020
Industry Shares its Experience to Advance Next Generation CSP 9 Jul 2020
Which is the Most Efficient Way to Make Solar Fuels from Methane? 17 Jun 2020
Making Solar Hydrogen with a Side of Carbon Nanotubes 1 Jun 2020
Morocco Pioneers PV with Thermal Storage at 800 MW Midelt CSP Project 25 Apr 2020
How Much Land Would Solar Thermochemistry Need to make All Our Aviation Fuel? 20 Apr 2020
Fred Morse: Go from Lowest Cost to Best Fit for a 100% Carbon Free Grid 3 Apr 2020
At Synhelion, Solar Jet Fuels Get Ready for Take-off 30 Mar 2020
Developers and Utilities Mull Solar Storage for a 100% Clean Energy Southwest 16 Mar 2020
A New Way to Dry Cool Solar Thermal Power Plants – with Underground Air 11 Mar 2020
Clean Tech Investment Challenge in Commercializing Innovations like HELIOtube 10 Feb 2020
Irrigation Water Can First be Used to Cool a Solar Thermal Power Project 9 Feb 2020
“Star” Receiver Could Cut Tower CSP Cost 11% 24 Jan 2020
Brightsource Innovates a Solar-cured Coating for DEWA Tower CSP 18 Dec 2019
A Novel CSP Heliostat Goes from Lab to Market in Just 5 Years 3 Dec 2019
NREL Awarded $2.8 Million to Develop a Long-Duration Thermal Energy Storage Technology 14 Nov 2019
Rebirth of SolarReserve’s 450 MW Likana Brings CSP Supply Chain Hope for Chile 29 Oct 2019
Sodium-based Vast Solar Combines the Best of Trough & Tower CSP to Win our Innovation Award 18 Oct 2019
Japan and Australia Test Solar Hydrogen Component 1 Oct 2019
MENA Region Industries Could Heat for Less with Solar 21 Sep 2019
Q&A: How Risk Mitigation Finance Can Cut CSP Costs 11 Sep 2019
Novel CSP Design Combines the Solar Receiver with Thermal Energy Storage 11 Sep 2019
Add Hydrogen Combustion to a Solar Reactor for Carbon-Free Mining and Mineral Processing 8 Aug 2019
Could China’s Global Grid Idea Help Grow CSP? 10 Jul 2019
A Solar Process Like Gas Reforming Makes Green Hydrogen Cheaper 2 Jul 2019
Designing Solar Furnaces to Make Biochars without Air Pollution 29 Jun 2019
Start-Up VC Invests in Beam-Down Concentrator for Solar Fuel 5 Jun 2019
Morocco Breaks New Record with 800 MW Midelt 1 CSP-PV at 7 Cents 24 May 2019
VC-Funded Thermal “Battery” is Based on CSP Molten Salt Energy Storage 13 May 2019
Make Carnot Batteries with Molten Salt Thermal Energy Storage in ex-Coal Plants 16 Apr 2019
Study of Chile’s CSP Potential for Domestic Manufacturing 10 Apr 2019
Shouhang and EDF to Test s-CO2 Cycle in Concentrated Solar Power 29 Mar 2019
Australian Researchers Design a Solar Process for Algae-Derived Solar Fuel 28 Mar 2019
Trucks Transport Hot Particles Storing Energy 1 Kilometer for Multi-Tower CSP? 7 Mar 2019
CSP Tech Explainers
How CSP Works: Tower, Trough, Fresnel or Dish
Q & A: DLR’s Christian Sattler on the Role of Solar Thermochemistry in Green Hydrogen Production
Desert Solar to Fuel Centuries of Air Travel
How CSP’s Thermal Energy Storage Works
How Solar Peaker Plants Could Replace Gas Peakers
CSP Doesn’t Compete With PV – it Competes with Gas
SolarPACES Announcements
SolarPACES 2020 Proceedings Now Published with AIP 19 May 2022
SolarPACES Call for Papers for 2022 Conference; Albuquerque, New Mexico 4 Mar 2022
New SolarPACES Technology Briefs for Very Hot Solar Industrial Processes 8 Feb 2022
SolarPACES Ex-Co elects Gilles Flamant and Wes Stein as next Chair and Vice Chair 13 Oct 2021
New Deadline June 22nd for Abstract Submissions for SolarPACES 2021 15 Jun 2021- SolarPACES 2021 – First Announcement and Call for Papers 14 May 2021
Program for the 2020 SolarPACES Conference is Now Online 19 Sep 2020
CSP News Briefs
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DOE Invests Half a Billion to De-risk Cheaper Energy Storage 18 May 2022
ATA Webinar: Capitalize on the Coming US Grid Storage Boom 13 May 2022
NREL scientists advance solar thermo-chemical hydrogen (STCH) production 8 May 2022- US DOE: Submit Abstracts by May 6 for SolarPACES 2022 29 Apr 2022
China’s CSP at Hami Expected to be 250 MW by 2025 28 Mar 2022
How Europe can Cut Natural Gas Imports from Russia significantly within a Year 9 Mar 2022
ACWA Power’s Redstone CSP Draws Down Debt in 9th Month of Construction 22 Feb 2022
April 11 Deadline to Tender for 200MW CSP in Botswana 22 Feb 2022
Info on SETO 2022 Funding for CSP/CST Technologies 9 Feb 2022
NREL Starts SETO-Funded Study of Wind Impacts on Solar Collectors 12 Jan 2022
Vast Solar Consortium Patents Flexitank; Prevents Thermal Storage Leaks 9 Dec 2021
“Sun-to-Liquids” Solar Fuels R&D Wins Recognition at Cop26 24 Nov 2021
Namibia Readies Bidding for CSP in 2022 24 Nov 2021
These 25 Advanced CSP & CST Technologies to Share $33 Million US DOE Funding 20 Oct 2021
IEA Report: Raise Investment and R&D to Reach Green Hydrogen Goal by 2050 7 Oct 2021
Spain Seeks Bids for 200 MW of CSP in 2021 Auction 6 Oct 2021
DLR-CSP Services Solar Flux Measurement System Wins International CSP Tech Award 5 Oct 2021
Solar Fuels Pioneer Synhelion Acquires Smart Mirror Expert Heliokon 28 Sep 2021
Masdar City Start-up Seramic Materials Launches 100% Recycled Thermal Energy Storage 23 Sep 2021
China Begins $3 Billion Golmud Project 3.3GW CSP+PV+Thermal Storage 19 Sep 2021- View the 2021 SolarPACES Conference Program Now 25 Aug 2021
SolarPACES 2021 Registration Now Open 9 Aug 2021
RFP to Demo Long Duration Energy Storage Innovations 13 Jul 2021
Submit Papers on Solar Thermochemical Innovations to “Energies” Special Issue by Sept 1 8 Jul 2021
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Pitz-Paal receives Energy Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 29 Jun 2021
“Solar Power Around the Clock” report released by the German Association for Concentrated Solar Power (DCSP) 22 Jun 2021
Bill Gates-backed CSP “Sunlight Refinery” Heliogen Raises $108 Million 15 Jun 2021
New DLR Study Answers All Your Questions About CSP & Solar Thermal 14 Jun 2021
Thermal Storage Test Milestone at the 700 MW DEWA CSP Plant 12 Jun 2021
Chile Considers Converting 30 Coal Plants into “Carnot” Batteries 2 Jun 2021
Sign Up for June 17th Cologne Solar Colloquium: Industrial Heat Technologies 18 May 2021
100 MW Redstone Solar with 12 Hours Daily Thermal Energy Storage Closes Financing 10 May 2021
Balloons Test Environmental Safety of Advanced Solar Power Tower Tech 22 Apr 2021
The Cerro Dominador CSP Project Has Synchronized to the Grid in Chile 13 Apr 2021
New DOE Funding for CSP: Webinar April 12 25 Mar 2021
SolarPACES Lifetime Award Winner Professor Valeriano Ruiz has passed away 15 Mar 2021
Long Duration Energy Storage gets New R&D Lab in Biden’s DOE 11 Mar 2021
March 1 Deadline for Sandia R&D Funding Awards for CSP Technologies 20 Feb 2021
EuroTrough Helped Cut Ramp-Up Time of China’s 100 MW Urat CSP 16 Feb 2021
Botswana is Now Looking for Bids to Build 200 MW of CSP 22 Jan 2021
Long-duration Thermal Energy Storage Startup Azelio Wins First Commercial Order 28 Dec 2020
Saudi Government Raises Ownership to Half of Global Solar Leader ACWA Power 3 Dec 2020
Bokpoort Breaks a Solar Record – CSP Operating Round the Clock 13 Days: 28 Oct 2020
Nov 5 Webinar: Abengoa on Retrofitting CSP Plants for Intermittent Renewable Energy Storage 27 Oct 2020
ATA Insights Webinar | CSP from Dusk to Dawn: Blueprint for 200 MW Tower 26 Oct 2020
US DOE Announces Quarterfinalists in $9 Million Solar Desalination Prize 19 Oct 2020
ACWA Power’s Bokpoort Sets New Production Record as South African Load-shedding Persists 10 Sep 2020
Solar Heat for Cleaning Wastewater and Recovering Clean Water 1 Sep 2020
TuNur CEO Kevin Sara: Why Invest in Concentrating Solar Power? 12 Aug 2020
SolarPACES Award Winner Vast Solar Plans a 50MW 24/7 Australian Solar Project 24 Jul 2020
China Wins First CSP for Hydro-Rich Zambia as Drought Increases 22 Jul 2020
ATA Webinar July 30: The Present and Future of CSP and Thermal Storage from the European Perspective 20 Jul 2020
IEA Clean Energy Transitions Summit Convenes 80% of Global Emitters Online July 9th CEST 8 Jul 2020
World’s First Utility-Scale Molten Salt Fresnel CSP Plant Connects to China’s Grid 30 Jun 2020
Spain’s First CSP to Get Novel Thermal+Electric Storage Retrofit 17 Jun 2020
Switzerland’s International Airport to Buy Synhelion’s First Solar Fuel 28 May 2020
Applications Open for US DOE $9 Million Solar Thermal Desalination Prize 29 Apr 2020
COVID Pandemic Announcement: SolarPACES Conference 27 Apr 2020
California Looks for Long-Duration Renewable Energy Storage Contracts for 2026 12 Apr 2020
Online Conference April 1-2: World Bank MENA Concentrating Solar for Power and Heat 17 Mar 2020
Generation from Spain’s Existing 2.3 GW of CSP Showing Steady Annual Increases 3 Mar 2020
China’s Supcon Achieves Over 105% of Projected Output in 24/7 Solar 28 Feb 2020
Concentrated Solar Heat to Desalinate Seawater at Saudi Neom City 16 Feb 2020
Real-Time Sky Imaging Cameras to Speed Up CSP Response Time 24 Jan 2020
Sener Offers to Expand its CSP as South Africa’s Coal Plant Blackouts Continue 18 Dec 2019
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