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Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2024 04:19:42 +0000

Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility is partnering with the University of Arizona’s Professor J. Roger Angel for one of four projects the Heliostat Consortium awarded … [continued]

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Concentrating Solar Power Plots Stealth Attack On Fossil Fuels

December 7, 2023 admin clean power, concentrating solar power, csp, Energy, green economy, heliogen, heliostats, renewable energy, Solar energy, us department of energy (doe), usa

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2023 13:01:52 +0000

New heliostat tracking software aims to pump up the performance of concentrating solar power plants, giving them an edge over fossil fuels.

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Heliostat Consortium Announces Funding Awards Aimed At Lowering Costs & Barriers to Widespread Heliostat Deployment

June 4, 2023 admin clean power, heliostats, nrel, Solar energy

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2023 22:35:27 +0000

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratories, co-leads of the Heliostat Consortium, announced seven awardees from a request for proposals (RFP) aimed at achieving DOE’s goals for heliostat cost reduction, sustained multifaceted innovation, and improved solar field performance. Heliostats are mirrors that track the sun in order […]

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US Energy Dept. Still Holds Torch For Concentrating Solar Power

October 2, 2022 admin clean power, concentrating solar power, Energy, falling particle collector, green hydrogen, heliocon, heliogen, heliostats, hydrogen, nrel, renewable energy, solar dynamics, Solar energy, solid particle csp, supercritical carbon dioxide, university of florida (uf), us department of energy (doe), usa

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2022 16:00:14 +0000

Concentrating solar power has had a hard time getting off the ground in the US, but that is not stopping the Department of Energy. The agency is in the middle of a $100 million program aimed at pushing the technology into the mainstream of the renewable energy revolution, and they are not stopping at power […]