Alumina calcination is one industrial process that could be decarbonized using a 1000°C “hot solar” process
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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
World’s Largest Energy Firm to Build Three Chinese CSP Projects
The largest clean energy investor and developer in the world built the Three Gorges Dam China Three Gorges Renewables - the developer and builder of the 22.5 GW Three Gorges Dam in China - will develop three of China's planned new 100 MW Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)...
China’s Big State-Owned Firms Begin New CSP for 2024
Could giant coal and nuclear developers build CSP? In China, yes
Volateq Brings Drone Monitoring Subscriptions for Trough Solar Thermal Energy
Drone monitoring of solar fields is already established for photovoltaic solar. Now a new DLR spinoff - Volateq.de brings drone technology to the very different challenges of monitoring solar field performance, for concentrated solar power (CSP). “There's a lot of lot...
New Sulfur-Based Solar Reactor Makes Cheap Green Hydrogen for Copper Mines
By making solar hydrogen as an industrial service for copper mining the scale is established for mass production
Absolicon Investigates Wastewater Sludge Drying with 140°C Solar Heat
Yet another use for industrial solar heat – drying wastewater sludge – attracts study at six-minute solar collector maker Absolicon
Hot Solar Biomass Gasifier Makes Clean Hydrogen-Rich Syngas
Biomass gasification using steam and oxygen is an already mature technology for extracting hydrogen, which requires heat at above 700°C. To generate the heat for gasification, traditionally, some of the biomass itself is burnt. But this combustion emits several...
Advance Hot Solar Fuels with “Spillover” Policies
A pair of policy researchers at Potsdam University’s Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Germany have a suggestion for policy to advance high temperature Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) technologies. Today’s commercially operating Concentrated Solar...
The Economics of Running CSP as a Capacity Resource in the 100% Renewable Future
A new paper to be published in the journal Energy Conversion and Management: X: Using Concentrating-Solar-Power Plants as Economic Carbon-Free Capacity Resources - develops an approach to assessing the capacity contribution from CSP plants with thermal energy storage...
Why Likana’s 24-Hour Solar Bid under $34/MWh Lost in Chile
At the annual SolarPACES Conference (held virtually for the second year) Cerro Dominador’s CEO Fernando Gonzalez answered questions from the international network of concentrated solar power (CSP) researchers and developers attending about exactly what happened in the...
Have Heliostat Cost Cuts Helped Likana Bid CSP Under 4 Cents?
Have advances in heliostat mirror solar fields enabled record low prices in Morocco and Dubai and low bids like for Likana in Chile?
Why Lunar Engineering is an Exciting R&D Field for the “Hot Solar”
Out-of-this-world engineering challenges of manufacturing on the Moon hold promise for Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST)
New Strategies Needed to Sell Solar Heat for Mining
Direct solar heat - Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) - is a potential renewable resource for replacing heat from burning fossil fuels for industries like mining, as its technologies generate heat directly from sunlight at anywhere from 150°C to 1500°C. But lack of...
Auto Turbocharger to Power Solar-Heated Air for Industrial Drying
Turbochargers were first used to amplify fossil fuel efficiency. Now they could turbocharge solar energy for 100% renewable industrial heat
Can a new kind of CSP be a game changer?
High temperature CSP with very long duration storage in Bauxite particles can top off the 100% renewable grid says Sandia lead solar researcher Cliff Ho
A Nanotech Cermet Coating is Just One of Many Gen3 CSP Innovations
Innovating new energy technologies is more akin to making a movie with a cast and crew of thousands than the stereotype of the one lone inventor in a garage coming up with the whole thing alone. An example is the US Department of Energy grant to try three different...
Beam-Down Demos First Direct Solar Storage at 1/2 MWh Scale
What if the molten salts in the thermal energy storage tank could simply be heated directly by concentrated solar energy?
Synhelion, Wood Advance 100% Solar Hydrogen
The ETH spin-off Synhelion is working on commercializing its very high-temperature solar thermochemical fuels (like jet fuel and hydrogen) and has already formed partnerships with several larger firms making cement or aviation fuel to advance step by step towards its...
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- Rethinking pressurized gases for Fresnel solar receivers
- Volateq’s drone-based monitoring targets key risks in parabolic trough collectors
- Ranga Pitchumani – we’ve just started scratching the surface of Gen3 CSP
- Stored solar heat gets an algorithm to ensure a steady supply
- 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
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