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,...
Round II of Sun-to-Liquid is launched: This initiative will demonstrate the scalability and high efficiency of producing sustainable synthetic fuel from CO2, water, and sunlight. Synhelion is one of the industry partners for the project, providing the expertise for...
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...
[Ed: the novel STELLIO heliostats seen here, and used in this Hami Tower CSP project, won the SolarPACES Innovation Award for 2015] MASERMIC and SBP Sonne have completed the commissioning of the 50MW HAMI tower solar plant located in CHINA, XINJIANG province. It is...
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...
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Pitz-Paal receives Energy Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Robert Pitz-Paal, director at the Institute of Solar Research of the German Aerospace Center, has been named the 2021 recipient of the Frank Kreith Energy...
At the 2019 SolarPACES Conference, Vast Solar took the SolarPACES Technical Innovation Award for their use of high temperature sodium-based HTF in tower CSP, presented in their paper: Vast Solar: improving performance and reducing cost and risk using high temperature...
32nd SolarPACES Conference, September 15-18, 2026, Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany Online Proceedings to be published in TIB Open Publishing 31st SolarPACES Conference, September 23 -26, 2025, Almeria, Spain Online Proceedings to be published in TIB Open Publishing...
NOOR I Tower CSP project, Ourazazate, Morocco ©Xinhua News Agency/SEPCO IIINational Solar Test Facility, New Mexico/USA. Credit:Sandia National Laboratories ©US DOEMiraah, solar steam production at Amal oil field, Muscat/Oman ©GlassPointACWA Power thermal energy...
The annual SolarPACES Awards honor the personal engagement of individuals and institutions that significantly contribute to the deployment of CSP technology. Three types of Awards can be given; for Technical Innovation, Lifetime Achievement, and since 2025, a new...
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