Australian metals to decarbonize with GlassPoint’s solar steam

The new GlassPoint sells solar steam as a service, rather than requiring customers to buy the project “Now a lot of our pipeline of companies that we’re now in discussion with is in Australia, where electricity prices are high, so electrifying is just far too expensive,” he said. Ten years ago, GlassPoint CEO Rod MacGregor …

Published at Energy – Concentrating efficiency loss of heliostat with multiple sub-mirrors under wind loads

Heliostats in a Tower CSP project IMAGE@GrupoCobra Abstract: As an important design load for heliostat, wind load crucially affects the safety and concentrating performance. Herein, an evaluation method is proposed to study the impacts of wind loads on concentrating efficiency loss of the heliostat with multiple sub-mirrors. In particular, the computation method and evaluation index …

The value of Concentrated Solar Power dispatchability

SolarPACES will continue its current activity to support the further cost decrease of concentrating solar technologies by the development of internationally recognized standards for components, systems and processes. Foster appreciation for the value of CSP dispatchability: The recently extremely fast deployment of wind and PV constitutes both a challenge and an opportunity as increasing shares …