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Sunvapor announced today that it is the recipient of a $1 million award in the second phase of the U. S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Small Business Innovation Research program. Sunvapor proved in the first phase of their research that they could guide a robot’s arm to sub-millimeter accuracy …
A new ceramic particle Concentrated Solar Power receiver soon to be tested in the U.S. could lower the cost of energy by up to 20% and accelerate industrial heat deployment through particle transport innovations, Reiner Buck, Head of Solar Tower Systems at German Aerospace Centre (DLR), told New Energy Update. DLR’s 1000° C direct absorption …
Last month, the U.S. Department of Energy allocated $750,000 of funding to Sandia National Laboratories to accelerate testing of the centrifugal receiver (Centrec), a new high-temperature ceramic particle receiver developed by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Current CSP tower plants use molten salt as the heat transfer medium (HTM) and storage media, limiting temperatures to …
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Chile’s Cerro Dominador 80% complete, online by May 2020 Construction of the 110 MW Cerro Dominador CSP tower plant in Chile is 80% complete, Fernando Gonzalez, CEO of project owner EIG Atacama Management, told European industry group Protermosolar. Located in Chile’s Atacama desert, the $1.4 billion Cerro Dominador plant is expected to start supplying power …