October 19, 2019 | Focal Line Solar Inc.

At the 2019 SolarPACES Conference, Vast Solar took the SolarPACES Technical Innovation Award for their use of high temperature sodium-based HTF in tower CSP, presented in their paper: Vast Solar: improving performance and reducing cost and risk using high temperature modular arrays and sodium heat transfer fluid. Their design appears like a small modular tower …

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Day: October 19, 2019

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Sodium-based Vast Solar Combines the Best of Trough & Tower Concentrated Solar Power to Win our Innovation Award