MIT Proposes PV to Discharge Energy from 2,400°C Silicon Thermal Storage

Overview of MIT’s proposed thermal energy storage battery, showing the hot and the cold tanks for the molten silicon, and the containers for the charging and the discharging units IMAGE@Caleb Amy The MIT team estimates their thermal “battery” designed for long duration – 100 hours or more – would be half the cost of today’s …

Río Negro y Jujuy planean asociarse para energía termosolar

El gobernador de Jujuy Gerardo Morales propuso este viernes en Bariloche una asociación de la empresa rionegrina Invap y la jujeña JEMSE, para competir en el mercado de la generación de energía termosolar y el desarrollo de baterías de litio. “La idea es constituir una empresa conjunta y que las patentes de desarrollo le pertenezcan …

Efficiency limits of next-generation hybrid photovoltaic- concentrated solar power technology

Solar energy is one of the most abundant renewable energy sources, and effective solar technologies have great potential to alleviate the grand challenges of rising global energy demands, while reducing associated emissions. Solar energy is capable of satisfying the electrical and thermal-energy needs of diverse end-users by means of photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal (ST) …

European Solar Thermal Electricity Association, ESTELA, welcomes the long-awaited auction for renewable energy for the period of 2020-2025 in Spain

As expected, the total volume of 3 GW to be awarded in this first auction in Spain is split into 1 GW of wind power and 2 GW of photovoltaic (PV). As this very first auction is a non-specific tender, neither storage, manageability of delivery with a specific quota reserved for Concentrated Solar Power were …