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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.
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.”
The business case for storing energy thermally in former coal plants
Compared to other energy storage technologies, thermal energy storage has a huge advantage. It can be dropped-in to repurpose existing coal power plants by simply replacing the fuel, coal, with thermal energy storage to be charged with excess renewable energy...
BA student devises algorithm to optimize Tower CSP preheating strategy
Much of the research covered at SolarPACES in concentrated solar power (CSP) is advanced by international post-docs and professors, but as the need for climate solutions advances, it is drawing the attention of younger researchers with STEM backgrounds in mathematics,...
How hot solar aviation fuel (thermochemistry heated by solar mirrors) took off
A “hot solar” tower fuel plant for thermochemical aviation fuel from H2O + CO2 is finally getting news coverage. What was your breakthrough?
On-Sun Test of Novel Solar Combined-Cycle Finds…
A novel solar open air receiver is paired with a Brayton combined cycle power plant, combining these two technologies for the first time
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...
China Announces Another 1.3 GW of CSP with 12,000 MWh of Thermal Storage
In January this year, three of China's provinces; Gansu, Qinghai and Jilin, already announced a combined total of 1.1 GW of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) projects for completion by 2024. These are already hiring EPCs and breaking ground. Now the province of Xinjiang...
Paper Shows How Dispatchable CSP Can Solve the EU Gas Crisis
Replacing flexible gas before baseload coal is the EU’s new focus. This makes the case for the dispatchable solar; CSP much stronger.
Bill Gates-funded startup Rondo turns Solar or Wind into Heat
Thermal energy storage is cheap but it’s expensive turning heat back into electricity. Rondo Energy instead proposes to sell the heat.
Will the US Demo Long-duration Energy Storage in Time?
In a new study from Sandia National Laboratories; The Value of Long-Duration Energy Storage: Policy and Perception, researchers have published details regarding policies pertaining to long-duration energy storage (LDES), including feedback from around 500...
Mining Tech shows How Particle CSP can Hoist Tons of Hot Sand
At any one time, almost 3 tons of hot sand would be in free fall for about 5 seconds hitting the pile beneath at 60 meters a second
CEMEX and Synhelion ace the First “Hot Solar” Cement Trial
By the middle of the 21st century the global energy system will hopefully be very different, with clean energy, clean fuels and clean heat supporting a highly decarbonized future. It will require so many changes in how we have done these things so far, that we can...
How China’s Cosin Solar Solved Some Tower CSP Challenges
Known then as Supcon Solar, Cosin Solar developed two tower projects in China's pilot CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) program; as technology and core equipment provider on PowerChina Gonghe 50MW tower CSP, and developing the Supcon Delingha 50MW tower CSP. These were...
How Did Cosin Solar Tower CSP Reach Projected Performance So Fast?
Cosin Solar (previously Supcon Solar) seemed to burst on the global Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) scene as a fully fledged Chinese CSP firm. Among China’s pilot projects, the Supcon Delingha 50 MW tower CSP with 7 hours of storage in Qinghai Province was among the...
Researchers in Australia Investigate Open Vortex Solar Receiver for Thermochemistry at 1000°C
Alumina calcination is one industrial process that could be decarbonized using a 1000°C “hot solar” process
NREL Results Support Cheap Long Duration Energy Storage in Hot Sand
There aren’t many novel clean energy technologies that could also directly remove fossil energy plants. The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has created one. Long duration storage at grid scale is crucial to meeting climate targets. Solar PV and wind...
Namibia to De-Risk CSP with Permitted Siting and BOOT Finance
Namibia to follow Moroccan clean energy policy to cut CSP developer risk
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- 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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