Heliostat cost reduction is necessary to lower the cost of tower CSP. As many as 10,000 heliostats comprise the solar field.
Heliocon seeks heliostat cost reduction to $50 per square meter
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Consortium to demonstrate nitrogen for fertilizer from biosolids using solar thermal
Next year Solar Dynamics will demo a pilot project with solar thermal energy to dry biosolids to extract nitrogen to make fertilizer pellets
Decarbonizing the German industrial thermal energy use with solar, hydrogen, and other options–Recommendations for the world
Read the full paper comparing Germany's green industrial heat options at Science Direct Abstract This paper is based on a position paper of the German Industry Association Concentrated Solar Power e.V. to the German government and discusses options on how to...
Innovation in its volumetric absorber takes OVR efficiency to 90%
With innovation in its core component – the volumetric absorber – the Open Volumetric Receiver (OVR) can reach 90% efficiency and beyond
New DOE solar technologies funding for early stage CSP / CST direct heat
The US DOE announces new 2023 solar technologies funding for early stage CSP/CST innovations
Computational fluid dynamics study of hydrogen production using concentrated solar radiation as a heat source
Published in the January Issue of Energy Conversion and Management Abstract The purpose of this paper is to study the performance of the steam methane reformer (SMR) using solar energy as a heat source using a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model. An analysis of...
DLR study: potential for low cost solar fuels in the MENA region
Solar PV and CSP are the best suited renewables to drive MENA region synthetic fuel production potential at low cost
Solar furnace to melt steel at 2000°C for Swiss recycler Panatère
The solar furnace in Parkent, Uzbekistan will be used to recycle 50 tons of steel by the Swiss firm, Panatère in 2023
The race for solar megaprojects in North Africa that attracts Europeans
Source: El Pais (Google translated from French) Between the deposits of the road that leads to Rjim Maatoug, along the Algerian border and 120 kilometers from Kébili, in the south of Tunisia, only hydrocarbon tankers pass through in an incessant ballet. This area,...
Sodium heat transfer to Magnesia gets storage test
Liquid sodium heat transfer with magnesia thermal storage is ideally suited to high-temperature energy needs in industrial processes
Shanghai Electric CSP starts sending overnight solar power to Dubai grid
The energy stored in 700 MW of Shanghai Electric's trough tower CSP, once all units are operational, can generate power continuously for a maximum of 13.5 hours at night and 15 hours during periods of inclement weather. Source: Shanghai Electric for CSPFocus On...
Hydroxide molten salts tested in 20 MW thermal energy storage trial
20 MW Thermal Energy Storage Trials Hydroxide Molten Salt at the offshore energy island Bornholm Source: Recharge: Denmark’s ‘energy island’ of Bornholm is to host what is being claimed as “game changing” molten salts-based storage technology that its developer aims...
Denmark’s solar district heat leadership due to great policies
In Denmark, financing green district heat was not left to the whims of the market.
Auction failure curtails CSP in Spain’s Ecological Transition
Source: Economia Digital The low price of the ministry and the uncertainty of connection delay the installation of a new solar thermal, which in 2025 should be double the current one according to the PNIEC. The generation of energy with solar thermal technology has...
DLR finds CST is the Goldilocks renewable to decarbonize German industry
An assessment of the cost/benefit of each green heat technology is timely, as countries that were most heavily dependent on Russian gas must rapidly decarbonize heavy industry as gas supplies dwindle from over 40% to under 10% and rise in price from 20 to 140 euros...
China’s 2050 power could be Zero Carbon for under 1% of GDP: study
The average annual additional costs are ~0.62% of China’s GDP in 2020.
China now has 30 CSP projects with thermal energy storage underway
Email from CSP Focus China 2022, Nov 2&3 in Beijing The development of CSP is entering into a fast track in 2022 here in China. Within the Multi-Energy RE complexes combining with PV and/or Wind, CSP is playing a role as stabilizer and regulator, easing the power...
Abengoa wins Solar Project of the Year award for 600 MW trough CSP at NOOR
Press Release: Abengoa wins solar project of the year award for Noor 1 At Noor 1 Abengoa has been responsible for providing the technology, design, engineering of the HTF system, as well as the construction of the collectors for three parabolic trough plants (200 MW...
At SolarPACES 2022, Heliogen talks up solar heat efficiency for mines
“Our heliostat software works like human bodies work. We have eyes and eyes allow us to put our fingers in a very exact place with feedback.”
Solar heat to decarbonize industries gets $13 million boost from DOE
DOE Announces $24 Million Awards; $10.7 Million for Gen-3 CSP and $13.2 to Advance Concentrated Solar-Thermal Technologies for Industrial Decarbonization DOE also Releases Strategic Roadmap to Enhance Ability to Harness Solar Power, Lower Costs for Mirrors used in...
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