Climate policy in the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) provides powerful incentives to generate renewable energy and phase out fossil fuel production. Oil and gas companies are already required to cap boreholes when an oil well is depleted, to meet Asset Retirement...
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Completed! Redstone Tower CSP project in South Africa is online
[Ed: Finally, the Redstone Tower CSP in South Africa is completed!The California start-up SolarReserve had initially developed the project in 2014, competing during the early years of South Africa's CSP push, but it was delayed time after time by South Africa's...
CSP solar field workforce development funded with $3 million among 6 heliostat projects
Successful Projects Will help lower cost of CSP and support the next generation of highly trained solar field workers Heliostats, the large mirrors that track the sun to reflect and direct its rays to heat a solar receiver— are critical for efficient, cost-effective...
1000-hour thermal energy storage to get test in California’s abandoned oil wells
A demo of 1000-hour thermal energy storage in depleted oil wells is one of the breakthrough new climate technologies to have received funding from the US Department of Energy (with $6 million) this year. 

 This thermal energy storage, GeoTES (Geologic Thermal Energy...
DOE announces CST winners of $33 million for industrial decarbonization
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ANNOUNCES $33 MILLION TO DEPLOY SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES TO DECARBONIZE AMERICA’S INDUSTRIAL SECTOR Nine Projects Across Seven States Will Support Solar-Powered Production of Hydrogen and Lower Emissions from the Aviation, Food and Beverage, and...
AUSTELA calls for hybrid contracts to recognise generation and storage capabilities of CSP as part of CIS consultation response
Source: PV Magazine The Australian Solar Thermal Energy Association (AUSTELA) has outlined changes that will be critical to attract long-duration dispatchable capacity into the National Electricity Market, in its response to a consultation on the Implementation Design...
SETO funding $30 million for CSP R&D innovation
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced the Concentrating Solar Flux to Heat and Power funding opportunity, which will award $30 million for innovative research, development, and demonstration projects that accelerate the...
SolarHub Ignition 2024 Acceleration Program – Deadline April 30
We are happy to inform you about the SolarHub Ignition 2024 Acceleration Program! The SolarHub Ignition is designed for early-stage startups, entrepreneurs, and research teams operating in the field of solar energy or other technological fields that could support and...
Published at Renewable Energy – Feasibility study: Economic and technical analysis of optimal configuration and operation of a hybrid CSP/PV/wind power cogeneration system with energy storage
Abstract: In this study, a hybrid photovoltaic-wind-concentrated solar power renewable energy system and two cogeneration models are proposed. Evaluation criteria are employed, including the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) and the loss of power supply probability...
SolarPACES Conference 2024 Rome – First Announcement and Call for Abstracts by April 26
SolarPACES 2024 First Announcement SolarPACES (Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems) is pleased to announce the 2024 Conference to be held from October 8-11, 2024, in Rome, Italy. SolarPACES is the premier international network advancing research, development, and...
Over 50% of India’s renewables tender to be concentrated solar thermal
India has carved out an unprecedented percentage to come from concentrated solar thermal technologies in its planned renewables tender this year; over 50%. The news of the tender attracted the world’s key CSP developers and stakeholders to the International Conference...
DOE’s $30 million funding to advance solar fuels from concentrated solar
Solar Energy Technologies Office The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced its intent to fund the Concentrating Solar Flux to Heat and Power funding opportunity, which will award up to $30 million for innovative projects...
Nordic Green Bank lends Kyoto Group EUR 4 million for Heatcube thermal storage
Press Release:Nefco Nefco – the Nordic Green Bank – has signed a loan agreement with Kyoto Group AS, a Norwegian company that has developed a heat storage technology based on molten salt. The EUR 4 million investment will support the international scale-up of Kyoto...
Glasspoint and Saudi firm Ma’aden unveil 9 tons/hr solar steam demo plan
Source: Email from Glasspoint Ma’aden and GlassPoint Unveil Plans to Build Solar Thermal Technology Showcase First phase of project development for world’s largest industrial solar thermal project NEW YORK/RIYADH, January 11, 2023 -- Saudi Arabian Mining Company...
US Department of Energy lays out roadmap for LPO funding
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...
The Future Is Bright for Turning Sunlight Into Sustainable Jet Fuel
Source: Bloomberg/Lufthansa The Challenge The aviation sector has charted a course to decarbonize itself – and investors see opportunity. According to BNEF, startups with a focus on low-carbon aviation technology raised $4.6 billion in 2022, and another $1.21 billion...
$30 million in DOE funding for solar thermal fuel, heat, or storage
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced the Solar-thermal Fuels and Thermal Energy Storage Via Concentrated Solar-thermal Energy funding opportunity, which will award $30 million for projects to produce fuels via renewable...
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Latest Online:2019 Ashalim 230 MW tower and trough CSP SolarPACES-NREL database: All plant details on the Ashalim CSP project that combines tower (Ashalim/Megalim 121 MW) and trough (Ashalim/Negev 110 MW) CSP with thermal energy storage in molten salts. . Earliest...
Published at Chemistry of Materials – Synthesis and Structural Study of Substituted Ternary Nitrides for Ammonia Production
Abstract: Over the past few decades, inorganic nitride materials have grown in importance in part due to their potential as catalysts for the synthesis of NH3, a key ingredient in fertilizer and precursor to industrial chemicals. Of particular interest are the ternary...
Sandia’s green ammonia research matters for a global shipping future
Green ammonia could be made sustainably using solar thermochemistry instead of the way it is made today in the fossil-fueled Haber-Bosch process, which taps fossil energy for the thermochemistry and the heat and the high pressure it requires, while emitting almost...
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