[Ed: The storage material is by Seramic Materials; developed by Nicolas Calvet, Founder and Chair of the Masdar Institute Solar Platform, the first CSP and thermal energy storage research facility in the UAE (United Arab Emirates)] Source: PV Magazine Serbia-based...
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Sodium heat transfer to Magnesia gets storage test
Liquid sodium heat transfer with magnesia thermal storage is ideally suited to high-temperature energy needs in industrial processes
Auction failure curtails CSP in Spain’s Ecological Transition
Source: Economia Digital The low price of the ministry and the uncertainty of connection delay the installation of a new solar thermal, which in 2025 should be double the current one according to the PNIEC. The generation of energy with solar thermal technology has...
On-Sun Test of Novel Solar Combined-Cycle Finds…
A novel solar open air receiver is paired with a Brayton combined cycle power plant, combining these two technologies for the first time
Masdar City Start-up Seramic Materials Launches 100% Recycled Thermal Energy Storage
Seramic Materials 100% recycled ceramic stores heat at temperatures up to 1250°C for thermal energy storage or high temperature CST processes
Submit Papers on Solar Thermochemical Innovations to “Energies” Special Issue by Sept 1
The scientific journal 'Energies' is arranging a Special Issue on 'Solar Thermochemical Production of Material Commodities' with a deadline for submissions on 1 September, 2021. We, as guest editors, are pleased to invite you to submit high-quality unpublished...
Spanish Start-up Innovates Solar Steam Modules for Industries
Solatom’s Fresnel solar module is shipped ready to go and connected onsite as a turn-key design to generate steam or high pressure hot water
Brightsource Innovates a Solar-cured Coating for DEWA Tower CSP
Testing laboratories in Germany, France and Spain have confirmed the effectiveness of a new high-performance (97% absorbance) optical coating developed by Brightsource Energy, that can be “solar-cured” directly atop the receiver of tower CSP, like Brightsource is...
A Novel CSP Heliostat Goes from Lab to Market in Just 5 Years
The innovative pentagonal Stellio heliostat has gone from lab to commercial deployment in China’s Hami CSP project in record time
A Blueprint for 100% Solar Desalination
Freshwater shortages are projected to increase in our hotter and more crowded future. Already,150 countries desalinate seawater, using fossil fuels. But supplying an ever-increasing basic need with non-renewable fuels creates a growing threat, according to...
World’s Largest Solar Reactor Will Split H2O into Hydrogen
On 28 November 2017, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), together with international project partners, presented what is currently the largest solar-chemical installation for the production of hydrogen. In...
Current Job Openings in CSP Research and on CSP Projects
Feb 2018 Minisymposium in Modeling and Simulation in Solar Thermal Power Plants
Plataforma Solar de Almería is organising a new minisymposium in Modelling and Simulation (M&S) which aims to continue the research activities being developed within this scientific area. Time and place: From the 21st to the 23rd of February 2018, in Vienna, Austria.
SolarPACES Tasks
Tasks Annexes of the IEA SolarPACES Technology Collaborative Programme SolarPACES is an IEA Technology Collaborative Programme. As such, it has a structure similar to the more than 60 programs currently operating through the IEA. Each of them reflect the need to...
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