Completed SunShot Initiative CSP Research Awards

PROJECT TITLE	AWARDEE	PROGRAM AREA	AWARD TYPE	FUNDING OPPORTUNITY	STATUS	YEAR AWARDED	AMOUNT AWARDED	STATE
ATLAS: Advanced Trough with Lower-cost Alternative Structure	Abengoa Solar	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Concentrating Solar Power: Advanced Projects Offering Low LCOE Opportunities	Inactive	2015	$1,221,015	CO
AETHER: Advanced Energy Tower, High Efficiency Receiver	Abengoa Solar	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Concentrating Solar Power: Advanced Projects Offering Low LCOE Opportunities	Inactive	2015	$2,697,434	CO
Efficiently Leveraging Equilibrium Mechanisms for Engineering New Thermochemical Storage	Colorado School of Mines	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Efficiently Leveraging Equilibrium Mechanisms for Engineering New Thermochemical Storage	Inactive	2014	$1,008,511	CO
Thermochemical Storage with Anhydrous Ammonia: Optimizing the Synthesis Reactor for Direct Production of Supercritical Steam	University of California, Los Angeles	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Efficiently Leveraging Equilibrium Mechanisms for Engineering New Thermochemical Storage	Inactive	2014	$1,182,788	CA
Regenerative Carbonate-Based Thermochemical Energy Storage System for Concentrating Solar Power	Southern Research Institute	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Efficiently Leveraging Equilibrium Mechanisms for Engineering New Thermochemical Storage	Inactive	2014	$836,696	AL
Carbon Dioxide Shuttling Thermochemical Storage Using Strontium Carbonate	University of Florida	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Efficiently Leveraging Equilibrium Mechanisms for Engineering New Thermochemical Storage	Inactive	2014	$791,200	FL
Consumnes Power Plant (CPP) Solar Augmentation Project	Sacramento Municipal Utility District	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	CSP Heat Integration for Baseload Renewable Energy Deployment	Inactive	2013	$10,000,000	CA
Improved Large Aperture Collector Manufacturing	Abengoa Solar	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Solar Manufacturing Technology	Inactive	2013	$1,943,463	CO
Using Solid Particles As Heat Transfer Fluid for Use in Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Plants	University of Colorado	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Bridging Research Interactions through Collaborative Development Grants in Energy	Inactive	2012	$476,250	CO
High-Temperature Thermal Array for Next-Generation Solar Thermal Power Production	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Concentrating Solar Power	Lab Award	CSP National Laboratory R&D	Inactive	2012	$3,180,134	NM
Core Facilities at the DOE National Solar Thermal Test Facility	Sandia National Laboratories	Concentrating Solar Power	Lab Award	CSP National Laboratory R&D	Inactive	2012	$2,250,000	NM
Dish Stirling High Performance Thermal Storage	Sandia National Laboratories	Concentrating Solar Power	Lab Award	CSP National Laboratory R&D	Inactive	2012	$2,218,373	NM
Low-Cost Self-Cleaning Reflector Coatings for CSP Collectors	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Concentrating Solar Power	Lab Award	CSP National Laboratory R&D	Inactive	2012	$2,203,214	TN
System Advisor Model Enhancements for CSP	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Concentrating Solar Power	Lab Award	CSP National Laboratory R&D	Inactive	2012	$646,075	CO
Low-Cost Heliostat for Modular Systems	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Concentrating Solar Power	Lab Award	CSP National Laboratory R&D	Inactive	2012	$3,305,709	CO
Direct s-CO₂Receiver Development	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Concentrating Solar Power	Lab Award	CSP National Laboratory R&D	Inactive	2012	$2,693,999	CO
Degradation Mechanisms and Development of Protective Coatings for TES and HTF Containment Materials	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Concentrating Solar Power	Lab Award	CSP National Laboratory R&D	Inactive	2012	$3,305,709	CO
Fundamental Corrosion Studies in High-Temperature Molten Salt Systems for Next Generation Concentrated Solar Power Systems	Savannah River National Laboratory	Concentrating Solar Power	Lab Award	CSP National Laboratory R&D	Inactive	2012	$3,814,457	SC
Low-Cost Metal Hydride Thermal Energy Storage System for CSP Systems	Savannah River National Laboratory	Concentrating Solar Power	Lab Award	CSP National Laboratory R&D	Inactive	2012	$2,500,366	SC
High-Temperature Solar Selective Coating Development for Power Tower Receivers	Sandia National Laboratories	Concentrating Solar Power	Lab Award	CSP National Laboratory R&D	Inactive	2012	$3,814,457	NM
High Efficiency Thermal Energy Storage System for CSP	Argonne National Laboratory	Concentrating Solar Power	Lab Award	CSP National Laboratory R&D	Inactive	2012	$2,250,000	IL
Nx-TEC: Next-Generation Thermionic Solar Energy Conversion	Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	SunShot Concentrating Solar Power R&D	Inactive	2012	$808,000	CA
Chemically Reactive Working Fluids	Argonne National Laboratory	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	SunShot Concentrating Solar Power R&D	Inactive	2012	$4,886,359	IL
10-Megawatt Supercritical-CO₂ Turbine	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	SunShot Concentrating Solar Power R&D	Inactive	2012	$8,000,000	CO
Particle Receiver Integrated with a Fluidized Bed	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	SunShot Concentrating Solar Power R&D	Inactive	2012	$3,725,955	CO
Concentrated Solar Thermoelectric Power	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	SunShot Concentrating Solar Power R&D	Inactive	2012	$989,996	MA
Optimizing the CSP Tower Air Brayton Cycle System to Meet the SunShot Objectives	Southwest Research Institute	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	SunShot Concentrating Solar Power R&D	Inactive	2012	$3,064,000	TX
Advanced Low-Cost Receivers for Parabolic Troughs	Norwich Technologies	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	SunShot Concentrating Solar Power R&D	Inactive	2012	$252,120	VT
Low Cost High Performance Nanostructured Spectrally Selective Coating	University of California, San Diego	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	SunShot Concentrating Solar Power R&D	Inactive	2012	$1,000,000	CA
High Flux Microchannel Receiver Development with Adaptive Flow Control	Oregon State University	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	SunShot Concentrating Solar Power R&D	Inactive	2012	$647,649	OR
A Small Particle Solar Receiver for High Temperature Brayton Power Cycles	San Diego State University	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	SunShot Concentrating Solar Power R&D	Inactive	2012	$804,902	CA
A High Efficiency Low Cost Solar Receiver for US in A Supercritical CO₂Recompression Cycle	Brayton Energy	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	SunShot Concentrating Solar Power R&D	Inactive	2012	$804,902	CA
Scattering Solar Thermal Concentrators	Pennsylvania State University	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	SunShot Concentrating Solar Power R&D	Inactive	2012	$163,405	PA
Advanced Manufacture of Reflectors	University of Arizona	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	SunShot Concentrating Solar Power R&D	Inactive	2012	$1,357,373	AZ
Next-Generation Solar Collectors for CSP	3M Company	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	SunShot Concentrating Solar Power R&D	Inactive	2012	$668,166	MN
Self-Cleaning CSP Collectors	Boston University	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	SunShot Concentrating Solar Power R&D	Inactive	2012	$610,340	MA
Flexible Assembly Solar Technology	BrightSource Energy	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	SunShot Concentrating Solar Power R&D	Inactive	2012	$610,313	CA
Light-Weight Suspension Heliostat CSP Array	Solaflect Energy	Technology to Market, Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Incubator 7	Inactive	2012	$1,000,000	VT
Development of Low-Cost Suspension Heliostat	Solaflect Energy	Technology to Market, Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Incubator 5	Inactive	2011	$999,595	VT
Advanced Nitrate Salt Central Receiver Power Plant	Abengoa Solar	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Baseload Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2010	$4,517,474	CO
Modular and Scalable Baseload Molten Salt Plant Conceptual Design and Feasibility	eSolar	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Baseload Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2010	$4,390,613	CA
Solar Power Tower Improvements with the Potential to Reduce Costs	Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Baseload Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2010	$1,918,057	CA
Low-Cost Heliostat Development	HiTek Services	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Baseload Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2010	$1,934,155	AL
High-Efficiency Thermal Storage System for Solar Plants	SENER	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Baseload Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2010	$1,486,658	CA
Low-Cost Solar Thermal Collector	Suntrough	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Baseload Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2010	$500,000	CA
Encapsulated Phase Change Material in Thermal Storage for Baseload CSP Plants	Terrafore (PCM)	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Baseload Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2010	$500,000	CA
Brayton Cycle Baseload Power Tower.	Wilson Solar Power	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Baseload Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2010	$766,895	FL
Innovative Thermal Energy Storage for Baseload Solar Power Generation	University of South Florida	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Baseload Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2010	$1,174,547	CA
Baseload CSP Generation Integrated with Sulfur-Based Thermochemical Heat Storage	General Atomics	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Baseload Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2010	$1,823,783	CA
Next-Generation Low-Cost Reflector	PPG Industries	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Baseload Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2010	$749,776	PA

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Innovative Phase Change Thermal Energy Storage Solution for Baseload Power	Infinia	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Baseload Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2010	$999,327	WA
High-Concentration, Low-Cost Parabolic Trough System for Baseload CSP Generation	Skyfuel	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Baseload Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2010	$2,329,660	NM
Thermochemical Energy Storage for Stirling Concentrating Solar Power Systems	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory	Concentrating Solar Power	Lab Award	American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 CSP Awards	Inactive	2009	$800,000	WA
Technologically Relevant Nanomaterials for Thermal Energy Storage in Concentrating Solar Power Plants	National Renewable Energy Laboratory	Concentrating Solar Power	Lab Award	American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 CSP Awards	Inactive	2009	$1,000,000	CO
Hybrid Silicone HTF Utilizing Endothermic Chemical Reactions for Latent Heat Storage	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Concentrating Solar Power	Lab Award	American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 CSP Awards	Inactive	2009	$1,000,000	NM
Polyaromatic Naphthalene Derivatives	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Concentrating Solar Power	Lab Award	American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 CSP Awards	Inactive	2009	$900,000	TN
Thermally-stable Ionic Liquid Carriers for Nanoparticle-based Advanced Heat Transfer in Concentrating Solar Energy Applications	Savannah River National Laboratory	Concentrating Solar Power	Lab Award	American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 CSP Awards	Inactive	2009	$17,800,000	SC
Dual Purpose Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids with Enhanced Thermal Properties and Thermal Storage Capabilities	Argonne National Laboratory	Concentrating Solar Power	Lab Award	American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 CSP Awards	Inactive	2009	$1,000,000	IL
Solar Two Decommisioning	So Cal Edison	Concentrating Solar Power	Lab Award	American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 CSP Awards	Inactive	2009	$1,900,000	CA
Innovative Application of Maintenance-Free Phase-Change Thermal Energy Storage for Dish Engine Systems	Infinia	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2008	$499,987	WA
Reducing the Cost of Thermal Energy Storage for Parabolic Trough Solar Power Plants	Abengoa Solar	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2008	$1,830,181	CO
CSP Energy Storage Solutions – Multiple Technologies Compared.	Texas A&M	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2008	$1,049,766	TX
Novel Molten Salts Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating Solar Power Generation	University of Alabama	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2008	$1,400,000	AZ
Indirect, Dual-Media, Phase Changing Material Modular Thermal Energy Storage System	Acciona	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2008	$500,000	IL
A Novel Storage Method for CSP Plants Allowing Operation at High Temperature	City University of New York	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2008	$1,327,950	NY
Novel Thermal Storage Technologies for Concentrating Solar Power Generation	Lehigh University	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2008	$1,090,623	PA
Advanced Thermal Energy Storage for Central Receivers with Supercritical Coolants	Abengoa Solar	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2008	$191,235	CO
Heat Transfer and Latent Heat Storage in Inorganic Molten Salts for CSP Plants	Terrafore	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2008	$1,054,652	CA
Development and Performance Evaluation of High Temperature Concrete for Thermal Energy Storage for Solar Power Generation	University of Arkansas	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2008	$663,101	AR
Novel Thermal Energy Storage Systems (TES) for Concentrating Solar Power (CSP)	University of Connecticut	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2008	$1,290,362	CT
Thermochemical Heat Storage for CSP Based on Multivalent Metal Oxides	General Atomics	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2008	$1,028,246	CA
Deep Eutectic Salt Formulations Suitable as Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids	Halotechnics	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2008	$1,705,000	CA
Sensible Heat, Direct, Dual-Media Thermal Energy Storage Module	Acciona	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2008	$100,000	IL
Molten Salt-Carbon Nanotube Thermal Storage	US Solar Holdings	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for Concentrating Solar Power	Inactive	2008	$673,872	ID
Development of Molten-Salt Heat Transfer Fluid Technology for Parabolic Trough Solar Power Plants	Abengoa Solar	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Research and Development	Inactive	2007	$3,230,585	CO
Next-Generation Parabolic Trough Collectors and Components for CSP Applications	Abengoa Solar	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Research and Development	Inactive	2007	$4,005,681	CO
Advanced Polymeric Reflector for CSP Applications	Abengoa Solar	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Research and Development	Inactive	2007	$1,663,667	CO
Advanced High Temperature Trough Collector Development.	Solar Millenium	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Research and Development	Inactive	2007	$2,396,648	CA
Commercial Development of an Advanced Linear-Fresnel-Based CSP Concept	SkyFuel	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Research and Development	Inactive	2007	$1,361,109	NM
High Performance Reflector Panels for CSP Assemblies	PPG Industries	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Research and Development	Inactive	2007	$2,185,465	PA
Maintenance-Free Stirling Engine for High-Performance Dish CSP	Infinia	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Research and Development	Inactive	2007	$1,733,715	WA
Concentrating Solar Power – Molten Salt Pump	Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Research and Development	Inactive	2007	$343,934	CA
Solar Power Tower Receiver Development	Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Research and Development	Inactive	2007	$1,853,301	CA
Brayton Solar Power Conversion System	Brayton Energy	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Research and Development	Inactive	2007	$1,305,435	NH
System Design for CSP Technologies	Alcoa	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Research and Development	Inactive	2007	$2,407,340	PA
Cleanable and Hardcoat Coatings for Increased Durability of Silvered Polymeric Mirrors	3M Company	Concentrating Solar Power	Funding Opportunity	Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Research and Development	Inactive	2007	$2,311,901	MN

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