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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
  • TASK VI: Solar Energy and Water Processes and Applications
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CSP News & Analysis

  • 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
  • Why Copper Mines Need Solar Thermochemistry: Hydrogen 2 Jun 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
  • Top Steelmaker Tests Thermal Energy Storage in Slag Byproduct to Cut CO2 12 Feb 2019
  • China Made Solar PV Cheap – Is CSP Next? 22 Jan 2019
  • Researchers Test Solar to Cut CO2 in Cement Processing 10 Jan 2019
  • Study Investigates Solar District Cooling Potential for Saudi Arabia 19 Nov 2018
  • Can California Really Meet a 100% Clean Energy Target?
    Can California Really Meet its 100% Clean Energy Target? 16 Nov 2018
  • How CSP Can Help Remove CO2 from air 22 Oct 2018
  • How Morocco achieves renewable goals
    Climate Policy that Actually Works: How Morocco is Meeting its Clean Energy Goals 21 Sep 2018
  • Can Spain Revive the CSP Industry it Killed? 12 Sep 2018
  • Researchers Seek Best s-CO2 Solar Desalination from Waste Heat 6 Sep 2018
  • How Three Novel Technologies Trialled in the US Will Cut CSP Cost 18 Jul 2018
  • Study: CSP Will Help China Cut Costs of Climate Action 17 Jul 2018
  • What are the Pros and Cons of Longer Solar Contracts? 11 Jul 2018
  • Artificial Vision Enables Solar Field Calibration Overnight 4 Jul 2018
  • A Blueprint for 100% Solar Desalination 18 Jun 2018
  • Eastern Morocco’s Concentrated Solar Power Potential Assessed 15 May 2018



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CSP Tech Explainers

  • How CSP Works: Tower, Trough, Fresnel or Dish
  • desert solar to make clean jet fuel Solar Can Make Carbon Neutral Aircraft Fuel from CO2 + H2O
  • Q & A: DLR’s Christian Sattler on the Role of Solar Thermochemistry in Green Hydrogen Production
  • how solar thermal energy storage works How CSP’s Thermal Energy Storage Works
  • How Solar Peaker Plants Could Replace Gas Peakers
  • CSP Doesn’t Compete With PV – it Competes with Gas

SolarPACES Announcements

  • 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
  • SolarPACES 2020 Online Registration is Open 12 Aug 2020
  • SolarPACES Conference, Deadlines and the COVID Pandemic 30 Apr 2020
  • SolarPACES 2018 Proceedings Now Published with AIP 30 Jul 2019


CSP News Briefs

  • 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
  • Evening Peak Solar CSP Projected to Undercut Gas in Chile’s Open Auctions 28 Nov 2019
  • Bill Gates Funds A Second Concentrated Solar Thermal Startup: Heliogen 19 Nov 2019
  • Got Ideas on How to Commercialize sCO2 With CSP? Tell Uncle Sam 12 Nov 2019
  • US Lists $30 Million in 2019 CSP Research Awards 7 Nov 2019
  • Logistics Firm Chooses Solar for Steam Washing at Port of Antwerp 30 Oct 2019
  • China Connects Luneng, its 5th CSP Project in Climate Push 22 Sep 2019
  • Supcon Just Connected 50 MW of Tower CSP to China’s Grid at Record Speed 20 Sep 2019
  • Morocco’s Ourazazate Noor III CSP Tower Exceeds Performance Targets 27 May 2019
  • China to Finance and Shanghai Electric to Build CSP for ACWA Power’s 950MW Dubai Solar Plant 24 Apr 2019
  • May 7 Deadline for DOE $33 Million for CSP R&D in Storage, Manufacturing and Autonomous Technologies 10 Apr 2019
  • South Africa OKs Start-up of SENER’s Day-to-Night Solar Thermal Energy: Ilanga-1 6 Dec 2018
  • First-Ever Conference on the Role of CSP in Decarbonising the Mediterranean and Middle East: Cyprus and Online 21 Nov 2018
  • Glasspoint Signs up 2nd Oman Solar EOR Project at Twice the Size: 2 GWth 13 Nov 2018


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Tasks

  • 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
  • TASK VI: Solar Energy and Water Processes and Applications
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