The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) provides access to debt capital for high-impact energy and manufacturing projects. Over more than a decade, LPO has developed a strong understanding of what makes a project more likely to advance through...
CSP startups
What happened with Crescent Dunes?
The Crescent Dunes CSP project in the US was the first of a kind: The first tower CSP with thermal energy storage at full-scale; 110 MW. (Above about 150 MW, the distances of the solar field encircling the tower receiver has optical limits) It was developed by the...
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...
Unilever to get industrial solar steam with Fresnel in Mexico
Press Release Industrial Solar and its local partner Turbo Control have signed an agreement to develop a Fresnel Collector system at Unilever’s Factory located in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Industrial Solar conducted an extensive engineering study for Unilever Mexico in late...
Spain’s auctions need a CSP quota say engineering experts
Engineers tell Spain that only an annual CSP quota for solar thermal energy in the next auctions can achieve the goals the country has set for 2030
Vast Solar going public with NETC on the NY Stock Exchange as Vast
Vast Solar now Vast with NETC on the NY Stock Exchange. The Australian firm is a previous winner of the SolarPACES Innovation Award
Women in Concentrated Solar initiative created
At the SolarPaces Conference 2022, we created a group to support women working in the Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) sector. Our goal is to attract and empower women at all levels to develop skills and expertise in the field of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) and...
New DOE solar technologies funding for early stage CSP / CST direct heat
The US DOE announces new 2023 solar technologies funding for early stage CSP/CST innovations
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...
How a DOE Solar Desalination Award Detoured an Oil Industry Startup’s Plan
Ten years as a patent attorney with Exxon Mobil initially predisposed Gary Katz to see purification of “produced water” at oil wells as the market for the off-grid desalination startup he founded and bootstrapped in 2016, aiming to use the industry’s own wasted gas it...
HelioHeat Commercializes the DLR 1000°C Solar Receiver CentRec®
HelioHeat’s 1,000°C heat at just 1 Cent/kWh potentially ends the use of fossil energy for the production of steel, cement, food and chemicals
Long-duration Thermal Energy Storage Startup Azelio Wins First Commercial Order
Swedish startup Azelio will see its long-duration Thermal Energy Storage (TES) technology used at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Complex (MBR) in Dubai, UAE. Recycled aluminium alloy is used as a phase change material to store heat which is then converted to...
TEXEL Explores US Market for 2-Cent Thermal Energy Storage in Metal Hydrides
Research – and deployment – of low cost and sustainable energy storage technologies are crucial to the long term survival of humans
CEMEX and Synhelion to Demo Zero CO2 Cement
Synhelion will produce concentrated solar heat at 1500°C for the cement plant and receive highly concentrated CO2 to produce synthetic fuels
Switzerland’s International Airport to Buy Synhelion’s First Solar Fuel
Synhelion is developing technology to produce synthetic gas from air and sunlight. This can be processed into fuel that can be burned in standard engines
Bill Gates Funds A Second Concentrated Solar Thermal Startup: Heliogen
Building on R&D from IDEALAB, Bill Gates has now invested in his second CSP-based start-up after Malta, with Heliogen. Press Release; Singular scientific achievement takes place at Heliogen’s commercial facility in Lancaster, California PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS...
SolarReserve’s Aurora Solar Project Signs MOU for 13,000 Aussie Heliostats
US solar developer SolarReserve has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Australian firm Heliostat SA, to partner in manufacturing and assembling heliostats and heliostat components for the 150 MW Aurora CSP project that SolarReserve is developing...
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