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Vast Solar Consortium Patents Flexitank; Prevents Thermal Storage Leaks
Press Release: A consortium that comprises Vast Solar, CyD, Solar Dynamics, Alia Energy Consulting and Critical Engineering, has jointly developed Flexitank, a novel design for high temperature molten salt thermal energy storage tanks used in CSP and standalone...
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
RFP to Demo Long Duration Energy Storage Innovations
[This "only pre-commercial" and "over 6 hours" storage RFP would favor thermal energy storage concepts currently near commercial readiness.] The New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA) is calling for project submissions to advance, develop...
Beam-Down Demos First Direct Solar Storage at 1/2 MWh Scale
What if the molten salts in the thermal energy storage tank could simply be heated directly by concentrated solar energy?
New DLR Study Answers All Your Questions About CSP & Solar Thermal
How does a solar thermal power plant work? How can solar thermal power plants contribute to security of supply? What role do solar thermal power plants play in an energy system based on renewable energy sources? What skills are required to build and operate solar...
Thermal Storage Test Milestone at the 700 MW DEWA CSP Plant
SHANGHAI, June 11, 2021 /PRNewswire Shanghai Electric announced positive results of the first molten salt tank hydro test for the Parabolic Trough Plant-II which forms part of the 1GW Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai. The test was carried out on May...
Chile Considers Converting 30 Coal Plants into “Carnot” Batteries
By 2050 Chile plans to be carbon neutral. A crucial part of that goal is the decarbonisation of its energy mix. To do this, all coal-fired power plants will stop operating by 2040. To deliver maximum benefit, two additional challenges must be met: replacing...
100 GWh of Long Duration Energy Storage from MIT
A very large-scale long duration energy storage (LDES) idea from MIT envisages a 1 kilometer-long, 60 meter-wide lidded central storage container of rocks sunk 20 meters down into the ground - about the size of 10 football fields if they were laid end to end. The idea...
The Cerro Dominador CSP Project Has Synchronized to the Grid in Chile
Source: El Periódico de la Energía Ramon Roca 04/12/21 “We are proud of this new milestone in the development of our project. Having begun to deliver electricity to the National Electric System shows the reality and benefits of CSP technology. We know that the entry...
For 100% Renewables, DOE Speeds-up Storage Policy
DOE workshops educate regulators on long duration energy storage (LDES) A Federal energy project funded through the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Electricity has initiated workshops designed to help state utility regulators determine best practices in...
Long Duration Energy Storage gets New R&D Lab in Biden’s DOE
Source: Energy Storage News A US$75 million national research and development (R&D) facility for energy storage is expected to be up and running by 2025, the US Department of Energy (DOE) said yesterday. Called the Grid Storage Launchpad (GSL), 30 separate...
Aalborg CSP to Retrofit Coal Plants into Thermal Energy Storage
Researchers at DLR, and NREL, and the Bill Gates-funded start-up Malta have been investigating converting coal plants into grid-scale thermal energy storage for curtailed intermittent renewable energy, as low-cost heat “batteries.” (Thermal energy storage was...
Silicone-Based Heat Transfer Fluids Guidelines
A group of experts in the field of silicone-based heat transfer fluids (SiHTF) has been working together as members of Task III to create this guideline document. It covers general information for selecting standard and non-standard test methods for evaluating...
First-of-its-Kind Experiment with Liquid Metals in Thermocline Energy Storage at Karlsruhe
One of the ways to cut costs in thermal energy storage, whether standalone or as part of tower Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) is to use heat transfer fluids able to reach higher temperatures, and with a wider working range between hot and cold than today’s molten...
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
Promising Test Results for Molten Salts in Trough CSP
What if the more bankable trough technology could run on molten salt, like the more efficient tower CSP? Wouldn’t that leverage the best of each technology?
Spain’s First CSP to Get Novel Thermal+Electric Storage Retrofit
Abengoa plans to “bolt-on” novel low-cost storage to some of the first Spanish trough CSP plants, that were built without storage
Morocco Pioneers PV with Thermal Storage at 800 MW Midelt CSP Project
Colocating PV and CSP to share the CSP thermal storage could be widely applicable as energy grids become more saturated with renewables
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