News source: Hydrogen Insight Industrial users can bid for subsidies to switch to green H2 or other low-emissions technology Germany’s government has launched the first €4bn ($4.4bn) bidding round of its estimated €50bn Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfD)...
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DLR Research Position: Recycling potential of production units for solar fuels
PhD process engineering, chemical engineering, environmental engineering or similar (f/m/x) Starting date immediately Duration of contract 3 years Remuneration up to German TVöD 13 Type of employment Part-time The vision of the DLR Institute for Future Fuels is to...
US releases rule ensuring only green hydrogen gets $3/kg tax credit
Source: Hydrogen Insight The US government has finally unveiled its long-awaited proposed rules on clean hydrogen production, determining the criteria that developers will have to meet in order to qualify for the hydrogen tax credit of up to $3 per kilogram. The...
Published at Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis – Biochar pyrolyzed with concentrated solar radiation for enhanced nitrate adsorption
Abstract: Biochar has been recognized as an effective soil amendment for reducing nitrogen leaching in agriculture, but its large-scale implementation is impeded by the costly production process due to high energy requirements for thermal decomposition of feedstock....
GlassPoint redesign directly heats storage, cutting solar steam cost 30%
Press Release: GlassPoint Unveils Technology Advancements Reducing Solar Steam Costs by 30% The new "Unify" storage system and redesigned structure enable lower-cost, zero-carbon, 24/7 industrial heat for the only solar steam solution proven at scale NEW YORK,...
Published at International Journal of Hydrogen Energy – Performance of biogas blended with hydrogen in a commercial self-aspirating burner
Abstract: A natural gas and carbon dioxide fuel mixture was enriched by hydrogen to experimentally measure the performance of a hydrogen and surrogate biogas fuel. The performance of various biogas qualities and hydrogen blend ratios was investigated for use in a...
Australia’s liquid sodium solar receiver to be on show in October
The solar receiver on view at this year’s SolarPACES Conference site tour in October will be the first that many attendees have seen. This solar receiver is designed for very high temperature liquid sodium as its heat transfer fluid up in a solar tower, with a solar...
Egypt launches a solar desalination tender for five CSP projects
According to Fady Elsayed Senior Project Development Manager, Southern Africa, at Infinity Power, the Egyptian Government has launched a tender for five concentrated solar power plants on the north coast: "The Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC) has launched a...
How can Synhelion’s solar receiver achieve such high temperatures?
Synhelion's solar receiver achieves a temperature of 1,500°C and higher. That's unprecedented. Even the Gen3 particle-based solar receiver being pilot-scale tested now at Sandia - and the DLR CentRec receiver licensed to Heliogen - operate at the (relatively!) lower...
Synhelion and CEMEX make further progress toward the world’s first fully solar-powered cement plant
Press Release: Aug 3 2023 Synhelion and Cemex announced today a significant milestone in their joint effort to develop fully solar-driven cement production: the scaling of their technology to industrially-viable levels. This includes the continuous production of...
Tour Gen-3 solar receivers at the 29th SolarPACES Conference in October
Tour the pilot-scale sodium receiver and falling curtain particle receiver in Australia During the 29th SolarPACES Conference, a day trip from Sydney will take you on a Technical Tour of the CSIRO National Solar Energy Centre at Newcastle, where the working of two...
Spain seeks thermal energy storage proposals by September
The government of Spain is launching €280 million (US$310 million) in grants for standalone energy storage projects, thermal energy storage and reversible pumped hydro to go online in 2026. The Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge...
Australian mining to decarbonize with GlassPoint’s solar steam
Ten years ago, GlassPoint CEO Rod MacGregor bucked the typical business plan for solar developers, both PV and CSP (How CSP works): Sign an electricity contract with an electric utility to sell your solar power by the kilowatt-hour for 25 years and try to get...
Published at Applied Energy – Market profitability of CSP-biomass hybrid power plants: Towards a firm supply of renewable energy
Abstract: CSP-biomass hybrid power plants are promising options for displacing electricity from flexible fossil systems and increasing the share of dispatchable renewable energy in power grids. However, they are investment-intensive technologies whose competitiveness...
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...
Solar furnace to melt steel at 2000°C for Swiss recycler Panatère
The solar furnace in Parkent, Uzbekistan will be used to recycle 50 tons of steel by the Swiss firm, Panatère in 2023
Absolicon Investigates Wastewater Sludge Drying with 140°C Solar Heat
Yet another use for industrial solar heat – drying wastewater sludge – attracts study at six-minute solar collector maker Absolicon
Current Award Winners
Winners of the 2022 SolarPACES Awards: SolarPACES Chair Gilles Flamant presented the award to Dr. Christoph Falter, on behalf of Bauhaus Luftfahrt, Dr. Johannes Grobbel, on behalf of DLR, Dr. Alon Lidor, on behalf of ETH Zurich and Dr. Charles-Alexis Asselineau, on...
Online Conference April 1-2: World Bank MENA Concentrating Solar for Power and Heat
ATA Insights invites you to attend the World Bank's MENA CSP KIP capstone online conference: Concentrating Solar for Power and Heat (April 1-2, 2020) This final workshop of the World Bank’s Middle East & North Africa Concentration Solar Power Knowledge &...
Solar steam could heat MENA Region industries for less
"But even though the costs, the lifetime returns, and the speedy pay-back proved so competitive, during the three year study, Cuadros found that small and medium businesses were loathe to actually purchase and own novel technology." Only the deep pockets of the oil...
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