New Role For Concentrating Solar Power, With Green Hydrogen & A Perovksite Twist
Green hydrogen is going down in cost, and concentrating solar power could pick up the pace by ditching electrolysis in favor of a thermochemical process.
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It’s A New Dawn For Concentrating Solar Power
The concentrating solar power dream lives on, with new electric vehicle battery angle.
35 Years of Advancing Concentrating Solar Power Research
NREL Pioneer Celebrates 35 Years of Advancing Concentrating Solar Power Research When it comes to concentrating solar power (CSP) research, Mark Mehos has seen the industry growth and solar boom firsthand. CSP technologies — capturing sunlight to produce heat that drives thermoelectric generation systems — had their beginnings in the mid-1980s, at the … [continued]
Concentrating Solar Power Research Heats Up At NREL
Molten Salts Can Melt Down the Price of Concentrating Solar Power-Plus-Storage Concentrating solar power (CSP) has long held promise as a renewable energy technology. CSP uses mirrors, or heliostats, to harness the power of the sun by heating and storing an inexpensive medium such as sand, rocks, or molten salt … [continued]
Understanding the Impact of Wind Conditions on Concentrating Solar Power Structures
NREL Embarks on Two-Year, SETO-Funded Computational Modeling Project High wind loads increase structural design costs of concentrating solar power (CSP) collector structures, such as heliostats and parabolic troughs. In a new two-year project, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will work with the Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency … [continued]
New Transparent Aerogel “Sponge” Spikes The Solar Power Ball
It’s only a matter of time before concentrating solar power slips into the industrial process heat field, if a new aerogel pans out.
Tesla Powerpack Batteries Installed At World’s Largest Single-Site Solar Park
The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) announced the inauguration of a pilot project for energy storage at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park this week. The project has a power capacity of 1.21 MW and an energy capacity of 8.61 MWh. DEWA is using Tesla’s Powerpack batteries. … [continued]
Solarflux CEO Naoise Irwin Talks About CASPER & CSP FOCUS Features
I’ve written about Solarflux, its FOCUS parabolic dish, and its new tool, CASPER, which is a concentrating solar power (CSP) performance comparison tool. I’ve also had the pleasure of sitting down with Solarflux CEO Naoise Irwin and CTO John Fangman, who invented the FOCUS dish. This is the second part … [continued]
Interview With Solarflux CEO & CTO On Solving The Problem Of Lack Of Fuels In…
A few days ago I got to sit down with Solarflux CEO Naoise Irwin and CTO John Fangman, who is also the inventor of Solarflux’s FOCUS parabolic dish concentrator, which converts 72% of solar energy into usable heat. The company also just announced a new tool called CASPER. Diving into … [continued]
World’s Longest-Operating Solar Thermal Facility is Retiring Most of its Capacity
The Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) facility in California’s Mojave Desert retired five of its solar plants (SEGS 3 through 7) in July 2021 and plans to retire a sixth (SEGS 8) in September 2021, based on information submitted to EIA and published in our Preliminary Electric Generator Inventory. After … [continued]
