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Fractal steel texturing could solve the corrosive effect of higher temperature solar salts in tomorrow’s Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) How a novel fractal steel coating prevents corrosion in Gen3 CSP, described in Novel fractal-textured solar absorber surfaces for concentrated solar power published at Elsevier: Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells We recently caught up with …
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Despite a renewable capacity of 2.6 times peak demand, Spain’s intermittent renewables do not provide grid needs for operating reserves and frequency stability, so they have not displaced conventional fossil technologies IMAGE#Cerro Dominador CSP project: CSP with thermal energy storage can replace gas power plants Source: EVWind Each MW of solar thermal power can replace …
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Concentrated solar power firm Heliogen said it signed a contract with the city of Lancaster, California, to produce green hydrogen for the city’s growing green hydrogen fuel needs. The deal represents Lancaster’s first hydrogen offtake agreement. The hydrogen is expected to be produced at Heliogen’s Proxima hydrogen facility in Lancaster and will use Heliogen’s concentrating …