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China
Latest CSP in Construction: 2023 (three projects) #1: Huidong New Energy 110 MW Beam-down Tower CSP #2: Cosin Solar: Jinta Zhongguang 100 MW Tower CSP #3: CEIC/ Lanzhou Dacheng's 100 MW Molten Salts Fresnel CSP Latest Online: 2020 CSNP/Royal Tech Urat - 100MW...
Spain
Latest CSP in Development: 2023 Sener Solgest-1 110 MW trough CSP Latest online: 2013 from the first round of CSP in Spain that culminated with 2.3 GW: 150 MW Termosol I, II, III, trough CSP, with 9 hours of storage: in operation since Total CSP in Operation in Spain:...
Israel
Latest Online:2019 Ashalim 230 MW tower and trough CSP SolarPACES-NREL database: All plant details on the Ashalim CSP project that combines tower (Ashalim/Megalim 121 MW) and trough (Ashalim/Negev 110 MW) CSP with thermal energy storage in molten salts. . Earliest...
Chile
Latest Online: 2022 Cerro Dominador 110 MW SolarPACES-NREL database: All plant details on the 110 MW Cerro Dominador tower CSP project The 110 MW Cerro Dominador tower CSP project with 17.5 hours of thermal energy storage first synchronized to the grid in 2021 and was...
United Arab Emirates
Latest CSP in Construction: 2023 DEWA "NOOR" 700 MW Tower & Trough CSP project SolarPACES-NREL database: CSP plants in the United Arab Emirates The world's largest CSP complex will be the 700 MW solar project at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, about...
Papers Published in Peer Reviewed Journals
https://www.solarpaces.org/category/latest-in/recently-published-csp-papers-journals/
Current CSP Research Funding Opportunities
FEB 2024 https://www.solarpaces.org/doe-has-announced-new-funding-to-advance-large-scale-csp/ JAN 2024 Apply by March 6 Topic Areas SIPS Topic Area 1: CSP (7-12 projects, $400,000 each) This topic area will support small, focused projects investigating the...
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The SolarPACES Awards
The SolarPACES Awards honor the personal engagement of individuals and institutions that significantly contribute to the deployment of CSP technology. Two types of Awards can be given: 1. Technology Innovation Award Deadline: 31 July, 2021...
Map of CSP projects globally by Technology and current Status
Note: This map is as of 2015. For current status see the SolarPACES-NREL database View by operational status in 2015 - Red; Currently Non-Operational, Blue; Operating, Green; Under Construction, Yellow; Under Development (NB; slide sideways to view new projects in...
Women in Concentrated Solar
Optical Properties Working Group
General Coordination: Aránzazu Fernández-García, CIEMAT-PSA, Spain (arantxa.fernandez@psa.es) Objective Define and improve the measurement methods and protocols of optical properties of solar materials (including reflectors –clean and soiled-, receiver particles,...
Current Award Winners
Winners of the 2022 SolarPACES Awards: SolarPACES Chair Gilles Flamant presented the award to Dr. Christoph Falter, on behalf of Bauhaus Luftfahrt, Dr. Johannes Grobbel, on behalf of DLR, Dr. Alon Lidor, on behalf of ETH Zurich and Dr. Charles-Alexis Asselineau, on...
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Silicone-Based Heat Transfer Fluids Guidelines
A group of experts in the field of silicone-based heat transfer fluids (SiHTF) has been working together as members of Task III to create this guideline document. It covers general information for selecting standard and non-standard test methods for evaluating...
Capabilities of Each of the Solar Fuels Research Institutions
NATION; CITY INSTITUTE ITEM: 2020 STATUS DESCRIPTION/SPECIFICATION CONTACT Australia; Canberra ANU High-Flux Solar Simulator 18×Xe lamps, focal heat 15 kWth with approx 10,000 suns. Lab is equipped with gas supplies. Professor Wojciech Lipinski Australia; Canberra ANU...
Namibia
ExCo Representative Grant Muller NamPower Grant.Muller(at)nampower.com.na NamPower's core business is generation, transmission and energy trading, which takes place within the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP), the largest multilateral energy platform on the African...
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- Experts show different metal reduces thermal energy storage tank failures
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- Valparaiso University undergrads demonstrate multi-year thermochemical energy storage
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- Over 50% of India’s renewables tender to be concentrated solar thermal
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- A solar sulphur cycle to make unlimited thermal energy storage
- Solar pyrolysis for recycling lithium-ion batteries aces Proof of Concept
- Two CSP studies quantify a trade-off between solar efficiency and LCOE
- Another standalone thermal energy storage tech – the Heatcube
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- 3D-printed ceria is a game-changer to increase solar fuel efficiency
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