Integrated Solar Thermal Hybrid Power Plants: A Promising Solution for Developing Countries

Integrated solar thermal hybrid power plants are emerging as a promising solution for developing countries to meet their growing energy demands while addressing the global challenge of climate change. These innovative power plants combine the best of both worlds: the efficiency and reliability of conventional thermal power generation with the environmental benefits of solar energy. …

DOE awards $2.7M to U Florida, Synhelion to support production of hydrogen from concentrated solar power

Synhelion and its partner the University of Florida announced that their joint project has been awarded US$2.7 million from the US Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO). The project aims to accelerate the large-scale development and deployment of concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) technology to produce green hydrogen for industrial decarbonization and electric …

US DOE funds Synhelion to scale up its solar thermal hydrogen

Solar hydrogen is a component of the thermochemical solar fuels that Synhelion is developing commercially, such as aviation fuel Synhelion’s proprietary solar receiver is capable of temperatures above 1,500°C to perform thermochemistry to manufacture a variety of solar fuels such as jet fuel for aviation The solar thermal green hydrogen technology beginning to be commercialized …