solar thermal – Thinking Port

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]

The post National Solar Thermal Test Facility & University of Arizona Partner for HelioCon Project appeared first on CleanTechnica.

CleanTech Energy News Science

Request for Information: Receiver & Reactors for Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power Plants and Solar Industrial Process Heat

January 27, 2024 admin clean power, concentrating solar power, Solar energy, solar energy technologies office (seto), solar thermal, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 18:35:03 +0000

On January 22, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) issued a request for information … [continued]

The post Request for Information: Receiver & Reactors for Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power Plants and Solar Industrial Process Heat appeared first on CleanTechnica.

CleanTech Energy News Science

A New All-Solid Battery Hits Long Duration Energy Storage Mark

November 20, 2023 admin arpa-e, california energy commission (cec), clean power, Energy Storage, green economy, long-duration energy storage, solar cells, Solar energy, solar thermal, thermoelectric, thermophotovoltaic

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:28:52 +0000

Solid blocks of carbon form the heart of a new long duration energy storage system aiming to decarbonize industrial processes.

The post A New All-Solid Battery Hits Long Duration Energy Storage Mark appeared first on CleanTechnica.

Magazines

DOE Breaks Ground on Next-Generation Concentrating Solar Power Pilot

February 21, 2023 admin csp, csp pilot, DOE, particle-based receiver, power, sandia national laboratory, Solar, solar thermal, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 01:25:58 +0000

The Department of Energy (DOE) has broken ground on the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant (G3P3), a novel concentrating solar power (CSP) facility at Sandia National Laboratory that will use sand-like ceramic particles instead of molten salt to produce and store high-temperature energy. When completed in 2024, the “multi-megawatt” solar thermal pilot project will utilize an existing […]

The post DOE Breaks Ground on Next-Generation Concentrating Solar Power Pilot appeared first on POWER Magazine.

CleanTech Energy News Science

Solar Oven — Simple & Crucial

February 15, 2023 admin clean power, consumer technology, HEALTH, Solar energy, solar oven, solar thermal

Credit to Author: Jesper Berggreen| Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 04:59:32 +0000

Last year, in the the spring, I met Steen Carlsen. He has travelled extensively in Asia and East Africa, including Zambia, which is why I came to hear of him. Steen has a background in electronics and electrical engineering and we have had many interesting conversations already. Unfortunately, Steen is terminally ill, and is in […]

CleanTech Energy News Science

Decarbonization Potential Of Solar Thermal

June 9, 2022 admin clean power, Solar energy, solar thermal, solarflux

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:50:52 +0000

In a new article by SolarFlux, CEO Naoise Irwin shares how solar thermal has massive yet under-appreciated decarbonization potential. Almost 6% of U.S. energy consumption could be decarbonized simply by using solar energy for industrial process heat applications, he wrote. According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), solar thermal and photovoltaic heat technologies can […]

CleanTech Energy News Science

Solarflux: A Year Of FOCUS In The Field

March 24, 2022 admin clean power, Solar energy, solar thermal, solarflux

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 01:52:45 +0000

Solarflux recently shared a twelve-month review of its FOCUS parabolic dish in operation. You may remember my interview with CEO Naoise Irwin last year about this technology. Naoise along with Solarflux CTO John Fangman, who invented the dish, shared how it converts 72% of solar energy into usable heat. In February 2022, the company reflected […]

Magazines

Novel Stellio Heliostat Solar Project Goes Online in China

March 2, 2020 admin Business, China, concentrated solar power, csp, csp developments, Energy Storage, hami project, International, news, Renewables, Research and Development, Solar, solar thermal, solar thermal technology, solarpaces, stelio, Technology, Uncategorized

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 05:00:00 +0000

The post Novel Stellio Heliostat Solar Project Goes Online in China appeared first on POWER Magazine.

One of the world’s first molten salt tower concentrated solar power (CSP) projects that uses a “Stellio” heliostat was grid-connected at the end of December in China’s Xinjiang province near the

The post Novel Stellio Heliostat Solar Project Goes Online in China appeared first on POWER Magazine.

Magazines

Chile Presents a Coal Exit Plan

June 30, 2019 admin acciona, Argentina, Business, chile, climate change, Coal, coal retirements, engie, Gas, geothermal, Hydro, International, Markets, news, Power Demand, Renewables, Solar, solar thermal, T&D, Technology, transmission, Wind

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Chile, a country that relied on coal for about two-fifths of its power generation in 2016, in June announced it would mothball eight coal plants, totaling 23 GW, of its existing 28-plant coal fleet over the

The post Chile Presents a Coal Exit Plan appeared first on POWER Magazine.