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  • TASK I: Solar Thermal Electric Systems
  • TASK II: Solar Chemistry Research
  • TASK III: Solar Technology and Advanced Applications
  • TASK IV: Solar Heat Integration in Industrial Processes
  • TASK V: Solar Resource for High Penetration and Large Scale Applications
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CSP News & Analysis

  • Will the US Demo Long-duration Energy Storage in Time? 12 May 2022
  • Mining Tech shows How Particle CSP can Hoist Tons of Hot Sand 21 Apr 2022
  • CEMEX and Synhelion ace the First “Hot Solar” Cement Trial 12 Apr 2022
  • How China’s Cosin Solar Solved Some Tower CSP Challenges 22 Mar 2022
  • Supcon Delingha Tower CSP
    How Did Cosin Solar Tower CSP Reach Projected Performance So Fast? 16 Mar 2022
  • Researchers in Australia Investigate Open Vortex Solar Receiver for Thermochemistry at 1000°C 24 Feb 2022
  • NREL Results Support Cheap Long Duration Energy Storage in Hot Sand 8 Feb 2022
  • Namibia to De-Risk CSP with Permitted Siting and BOOT Finance 7 Feb 2022
  • World’s Largest Energy Firm to Build Three Chinese CSP Projects 24 Jan 2022
  • China’s Big State-Owned Firms Begin New CSP for 2024 24 Jan 2022
  • Volateq Brings Drone Monitoring Subscriptions for Trough Solar Thermal Energy 16 Dec 2021
  • New Sulfur-Based Solar Reactor Makes Cheap Green Hydrogen for Copper Mines 14 Dec 2021
  • Absolicon Investigates Wastewater Sludge Drying with 140°C Solar Heat 12 Dec 2021
  • Hot Solar Biomass Gasifier Makes Clean Hydrogen-Rich Syngas 17 Nov 2021
  • Advance Hot Solar Fuels with “Spillover” Policies 9 Nov 2021
  • The Economics of Running CSP as a Capacity Resource in the 100% Renewable Future 20 Oct 2021
  • Why Likana’s 24-Hour Solar Bid under $34/MWh Lost in Chile 14 Oct 2021
  • Have Heliostat Cost Cuts Helped Likana Bid CSP Under 4 Cents? 30 Sep 2021
  • Why Lunar Engineering is an Exciting R&D Field for the “Hot Solar” 27 Sep 2021
  • New Strategies Needed to Sell Solar Heat for Mining 9 Sep 2021
  • Auto Turbocharger to Power Solar-Heated Air for Industrial Drying 28 Aug 2021
  • Can a new kind of CSP be a game changer? 9 Aug 2021
  • A Nanotech Cermet Coating is Just One of Many Gen3 CSP Innovations 22 Jul 2021
  • Beam-Down Demos First Direct Solar Storage at 1/2 MWh Scale 7 Jul 2021
  • Synhelion and Top Hydrogen Firm Advance Solar Hydrogen 23 Jun 2021
  • How a Bank Resurrected SolarReserve’s Redstone CSP with ACWA Power 7 Jun 2021
  • The Fastest Route to Commercialize Solar Hydrogen – is through Australian Copper Mines? 24 May 2021
  • How a DOE Solar Desalination Award Detoured an Oil Industry Startup’s Plan 23 May 2021
  • 100 GWh of Long Duration Energy Storage from MIT 14 Apr 2021
  • For 100% Renewables, DOE Speeds-up Storage Policy 1 Apr 2021
  • Could a Perovskite make Cheaper Solar Hydrogen? 10 Mar 2021
  • Aalborg CSP to Retrofit Coal Plants into Thermal Energy Storage 28 Feb 2021
  • MIT Proposes PV to Discharge Energy from 2,400°C Silicon Thermal Storage 15 Feb 2021
  • First-of-its-Kind Experiment with Liquid Metals in Thermocline Energy Storage at Karlsruhe 27 Jan 2021
  • HelioHeat Commercializes the DLR 1000°C Solar Receiver CentRec® 5 Jan 2021
  • TEXEL Explores US Market for 2-Cent Thermal Energy Storage in Metal Hydrides 21 Dec 2020
  • To Make Green Ammonia, US Researchers Design a Novel Solar Process 8 Dec 2020
  • CEMEX and Synhelion to Demo Zero CO2 Cement 20 Nov 2020
  • In South Africa and Spain, CSP is Meeting or Exceeding Projected Operation Targets 27 Oct 2020
  • Aalborg CSP Cuts Tubing Costs up to 42% with an Asymmetric Receiver 21 Oct 2020
  • At the SolarPACES Conference, Heliogen Introduces Solar Heat at 1 cent/kWh 13 Oct 2020
  • Xavier Lara on How Spain’s Q4 Auction Can Achieve the 5 GW of CSP it Wants 17 Sep 2020
  • Where Very Hot Solar Thermochemistry Research is Today: What’s Needed Next 7 Sep 2020
  • Spanish Start-up Innovates Solar Steam Modules for Industries 21 Aug 2020
  • Could Congress Commission a Government Agency Like WAPA to Build CSP? 11 Aug 2020
  • Australian Researchers Assess the Commercial Viability of Solar Alumina Calcining 3 Aug 2020
  • Promising Test Results for Molten Salts in Trough CSP 23 Jul 2020
  • Industry Shares its Experience to Advance Next Generation CSP 9 Jul 2020
  • Which is the Most Efficient Way to Make Solar Fuels from Methane?

 17 Jun 2020
  • Making Solar Hydrogen with a Side of Carbon Nanotubes 1 Jun 2020
  • Morocco Pioneers PV with Thermal Storage at 800 MW Midelt CSP Project 25 Apr 2020
  • How Much Land Would Solar Thermochemistry Need to make All Our Aviation Fuel? 20 Apr 2020
  • Fred Morse: Go from Lowest Cost to Best Fit for a 100% Carbon Free Grid 3 Apr 2020
  • At Synhelion, Solar Jet Fuels Get Ready for Take-off 30 Mar 2020
  • Developers and Utilities Mull Solar Storage for a 100% Clean Energy Southwest 16 Mar 2020
  • A New Way to Dry Cool Solar Thermal Power Plants – with Underground
 Air 11 Mar 2020
  • 

Clean Tech Investment Challenge in Commercializing Innovations like HELIOtube 10 Feb 2020
  • Irrigation Water Can First be Used to Cool a Solar Thermal Power Project 9 Feb 2020
  • “Star” Receiver Could Cut Tower CSP Cost 11% 24 Jan 2020
  • Brightsource Innovates a Solar-cured Coating for DEWA Tower CSP 18 Dec 2019
  • A Novel CSP Heliostat Goes from Lab to Market in Just 5 Years 3 Dec 2019
  • NREL Awarded $2.8 Million to Develop a Long-Duration Thermal Energy Storage Technology 14 Nov 2019
  • Rebirth of SolarReserve’s 450 MW Likana Brings CSP Supply Chain Hope for Chile 29 Oct 2019
  • Sodium-based Vast Solar Combines the Best of Trough & Tower CSP to Win our Innovation Award 18 Oct 2019
  • Japan and Australia Test Solar Hydrogen Component 1 Oct 2019
  • MENA Region Industries Could Heat for Less with Solar 21 Sep 2019
  • Q&A: How Risk Mitigation Finance Can Cut CSP Costs 11 Sep 2019
  • Novel CSP Design Combines the Solar Receiver with Thermal Energy Storage 11 Sep 2019
  • Add Hydrogen Combustion to a Solar Reactor for Carbon-Free Mining and Mineral Processing 8 Aug 2019
  • Could China’s Global Grid Idea Help Grow CSP? 10 Jul 2019
  • A Solar Process Like Gas Reforming Makes Green Hydrogen Cheaper 2 Jul 2019
  • Designing Solar Furnaces to Make Biochars without Air Pollution 29 Jun 2019
  • Start-Up VC Invests in Beam-Down Concentrator for Solar Fuel 5 Jun 2019
  • Morocco Breaks New Record with 800 MW Midelt 1 CSP-PV at 7 Cents 24 May 2019
  • VC-Funded Thermal “Battery” is Based on CSP Molten Salt Energy Storage 13 May 2019
  • Make Carnot Batteries with Molten Salt Thermal Energy Storage in ex-Coal Plants 16 Apr 2019
  • Study of Chile’s CSP Potential for Domestic Manufacturing 10 Apr 2019
  • Shouhang and EDF to Test s-CO2 Cycle in Concentrated Solar Power 29 Mar 2019
  • Australian Researchers Design a Solar Process for Algae-Derived Solar Fuel 28 Mar 2019
  • Trucks Transport Hot Particles Storing Energy 1 Kilometer for Multi-Tower CSP? 7 Mar 2019



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CSP Tech Explainers

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  • Q & A: DLR’s Christian Sattler on the Role of Solar Thermochemistry in Green Hydrogen Production
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SolarPACES Announcements

  • SolarPACES 2020 Proceedings Now Published with AIP 19 May 2022
  • SolarPACES Call for Papers for 2022 Conference; Albuquerque, New Mexico 4 Mar 2022
  • New SolarPACES Technology Briefs for Very Hot Solar Industrial Processes 8 Feb 2022
  • SolarPACES Ex-Co elects Gilles Flamant and Wes Stein as next Chair and Vice Chair 13 Oct 2021
  • New Deadline June 22nd for Abstract Submissions for SolarPACES 2021 15 Jun 2021
  • SolarPACES 2021 – First Announcement and Call for Papers 14 May 2021
  • Program for the 2020 SolarPACES Conference is Now Online 19 Sep 2020


CSP News Briefs

  • DOE Invests Half a Billion to De-risk Cheaper Energy Storage 18 May 2022
  • ATA Webinar: Capitalize on the Coming US Grid Storage Boom 13 May 2022
  • NREL scientists advance solar thermo-chemical hydrogen (STCH) production 8 May 2022
  • US DOE: Submit Abstracts by May 6 for SolarPACES 2022 29 Apr 2022
  • China’s CSP at Hami Expected to be 250 MW by 2025 28 Mar 2022
  • How Europe can Cut Natural Gas Imports from Russia significantly within a Year 9 Mar 2022
  • ACWA Power’s Redstone CSP Draws Down Debt in 9th Month of Construction 22 Feb 2022
  • April 11 Deadline to Tender for 200MW CSP in Botswana 22 Feb 2022
  • Info on SETO 2022 Funding for CSP/CST Technologies 9 Feb 2022
  • NREL Starts SETO-Funded Study of Wind Impacts on Solar Collectors 12 Jan 2022
  • Vast Solar Consortium Patents Flexitank; Prevents Thermal Storage Leaks 9 Dec 2021
  • “Sun-to-Liquids” Solar Fuels R&D Wins Recognition at Cop26 24 Nov 2021
  • Namibia Readies Bidding for CSP in 2022 24 Nov 2021
  • These 25 Advanced CSP & CST Technologies to Share $33 Million US DOE Funding 20 Oct 2021
  • IEA Report: Raise Investment and R&D to Reach Green Hydrogen Goal by 2050 7 Oct 2021
  • Spain Seeks Bids for 200 MW of CSP in 2021 Auction 6 Oct 2021
  • DLR-CSP Services Solar Flux Measurement System Wins International CSP Tech Award 5 Oct 2021
  • Solar Fuels Pioneer Synhelion Acquires Smart Mirror Expert Heliokon 28 Sep 2021
  • Masdar City Start-up Seramic Materials Launches 100% Recycled Thermal Energy Storage 23 Sep 2021
  • China Begins $3 Billion Golmud Project 3.3GW CSP+PV+Thermal Storage 19 Sep 2021
  • View the 2021 SolarPACES Conference Program Now 25 Aug 2021
  • SolarPACES 2021 Registration Now Open 9 Aug 2021
  • RFP to Demo Long Duration Energy Storage Innovations 13 Jul 2021
  • Submit Papers on Solar Thermochemical Innovations to “Energies” Special Issue by Sept 1 8 Jul 2021
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Pitz-Paal receives Energy Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 29 Jun 2021
  • “Solar Power Around the Clock” report released by the German Association for Concentrated Solar Power (DCSP) 22 Jun 2021
  • Bill Gates-backed CSP “Sunlight Refinery” Heliogen Raises $108 Million 15 Jun 2021
  • New DLR Study Answers All Your Questions About CSP & Solar Thermal 14 Jun 2021
  • Thermal Storage Test Milestone at the 700 MW DEWA CSP Plant 12 Jun 2021
  • Chile Considers Converting 30 Coal Plants into “Carnot” Batteries 2 Jun 2021
  • Sign Up for June 17th Cologne Solar Colloquium: Industrial Heat Technologies 18 May 2021
  • 100 MW Redstone Solar with 12 Hours Daily Thermal Energy Storage Closes Financing 10 May 2021
  • Balloons Test Environmental Safety of Advanced Solar Power Tower Tech 22 Apr 2021
  • The Cerro Dominador CSP Project Has Synchronized to the Grid in Chile 13 Apr 2021
  • New DOE Funding for CSP: Webinar April 12 25 Mar 2021
  • SolarPACES Lifetime Award Winner Professor Valeriano Ruiz has passed away 15 Mar 2021
  • Long Duration Energy Storage gets New R&D Lab in Biden’s DOE 11 Mar 2021
  • March 1 Deadline for Sandia R&D Funding Awards for CSP Technologies 20 Feb 2021
  • EuroTrough Helped Cut Ramp-Up Time of China’s 100 MW Urat CSP
 16 Feb 2021
  • Botswana is Now Looking for Bids to Build 200 MW of CSP 22 Jan 2021
  • Long-duration Thermal Energy Storage Startup Azelio Wins First Commercial Order 28 Dec 2020
  • Saudi Government Raises Ownership to Half of Global Solar Leader ACWA Power 3 Dec 2020
  • Bokpoort Breaks a Solar Record – CSP Operating Round the Clock 13 Days: 28 Oct 2020
  • Nov 5 Webinar: Abengoa on Retrofitting CSP Plants for Intermittent Renewable Energy Storage 27 Oct 2020
  • ATA Insights Webinar | CSP from Dusk to Dawn: Blueprint for 200 MW Tower 26 Oct 2020
  • US DOE Announces Quarterfinalists in $9 Million Solar Desalination Prize 19 Oct 2020
  • ACWA Power’s Bokpoort Sets New Production Record as South African Load-shedding Persists 10 Sep 2020
  • Solar Heat for Cleaning Wastewater and Recovering Clean Water 1 Sep 2020
  • TuNur CEO Kevin Sara: Why Invest in Concentrating Solar Power? 12 Aug 2020
  • SolarPACES Award Winner Vast Solar Plans a 50MW 24/7 Australian Solar Project 24 Jul 2020
  • China Wins First CSP for Hydro-Rich Zambia as Drought Increases 22 Jul 2020
  • ATA Webinar July 30: The Present and Future of CSP and Thermal Storage from the European Perspective 20 Jul 2020
  • IEA Clean Energy Transitions Summit Convenes 80% of Global Emitters Online July 9th CEST 8 Jul 2020
  • World’s First Utility-Scale Molten Salt Fresnel CSP Plant Connects to China’s Grid 30 Jun 2020
  • Spain’s First CSP to Get Novel Thermal+Electric Storage Retrofit 17 Jun 2020
  • Switzerland’s International Airport to Buy Synhelion’s First Solar Fuel 28 May 2020
  • Applications Open for US DOE $9 Million Solar Thermal Desalination Prize 29 Apr 2020
  • COVID Pandemic Announcement: SolarPACES Conference 27 Apr 2020
  • California Looks for Long-Duration Renewable Energy Storage Contracts for 2026 12 Apr 2020
  • Online Conference April 1-2: World Bank MENA Concentrating Solar for Power and Heat  17 Mar 2020
  • Generation from Spain’s Existing 2.3 GW of CSP Showing Steady Annual Increases 3 Mar 2020
  • China’s Supcon Achieves Over 105% of Projected Output in 24/7 Solar 28 Feb 2020
  • Concentrated Solar Heat to Desalinate Seawater at Saudi Neom City 16 Feb 2020
  • Real-Time Sky Imaging Cameras to Speed Up CSP Response Time 24 Jan 2020
  • Sener Offers to Expand its CSP as South Africa’s Coal Plant Blackouts Continue 18 Dec 2019


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  • TASK I: Solar Thermal Electric Systems
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  • TASK III: Solar Technology and Advanced Applications
  • TASK IV: Solar Heat Integration in Industrial Processes
  • TASK V: Solar Resource for High Penetration and Large Scale Applications
  • TASK VI: Solar Energy and Water Processes and Applications
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