Chairman
Manuel J. Blanco
Research Group Leader – Solar Thermal
CSIRO
manuel.blanco@csiro.au
CSP News & Analysis
- Researchers process wet waste with solar heat onsite in a mobile tanker truck
- Over 50% of India’s renewables tender to be concentrated solar thermal
- Over 90% efficient energy storage improved by flowing heat round two pebble layers
- 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
- India’s next renewables tender carves out 50% for CSP
CSP News Briefs
- AUSTELA calls for hybrid contracts to recognise generation and storage capabilities of CSP as part of CIS consultation response
- Power China has begun construction of the world’s only 200MW Tower CSP
- German industries to be paid to switch to low-carbon processes via CCfDs
- India to issue a tender for a 500-MW concentrated solar-thermal power project
- Spain, one of the most attractive countries to develop thermal storage
