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There’s a rush on to capture the sun with mirrors. Fields, deserts, and areas the size of capital cities, are being covered in big shiny heliostats, and sunlight focussed on troughs, tubes and towers, designed to bring us out of the fossil-fuel age and into a greener, more sustainable future. Wes Stein CSIRO solar research …
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An Australian company has successfully demonstrated its green H2 production tech prototype. Sparc Hydrogen has announced the successful testing of its prototype photocatalytic water-splitting reactor, a water-splitting green hydrogen tech that uses concentrated solar as an alternative to the conventional electrolysis method. The prototype was demonstrated at a CSIRO facility in Australia. The successful test …
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Transmission lines have fallout. Battery farms are expensive. Repeating Snowy II is out of the question. But there is a simple solution to generating and storing sustainable energy for overnight electricity. And country businesses are taking it on themselves to prove its powerful potential. The Vast Solar Concentrated Solar Thermal storage and power generation plant …
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The future of sustainable energy in Australia lies in finding cost-effective solutions to generate and store electricity overnight. The need for reliable energy sources in rural areas and the impending retirement of coal-fired power stations create an urgent demand for alternatives. While wind farms and lithium-ion batteries have their limitations, solar thermal heat storage is …
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They heated ceramic particles to a blistering 1450 F by dropping them through a beam of concentrated sunlight. A breakthrough at a concentrated solar power facility in Australia could help transform solar energy in the future. The challenge: Solar energy is cheap, clean, and plentiful, but its variability is holding it back: we can always …
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Australia’s science agency CSIRO announced that its Concentrated Solar Power research facility in Newcastle, New South Wales had a breakthrough as part of research investigating the potential of “falling ceramic particles” to capture and store solar energy as heat. CSIRO’s solar thermal facility in Newcastle has 400 mirrors. (Image by CSIRO). In detail, the solar …
Breakthrough solar thermal research is using ceramic particles that act like a battery, storing solar energy as heat. Concentrated solar thermal (CST) with ceramic particles offer a reliable, renewable power source that can be used even when the sun isn’t shining. This technology could play a key role in reducing industrial emissions, which currently account …
Australia’s transition to renewables is gathering speed, but there’s a looming problem with storage. We will need much more long-duration storage to get us through the night, once coal and fossil gas exit the system. We also need to find new and better ways to create heat for industrial processes. Renewables can supply much of …
The CSIRO Renewable Energy Storage Roadmap identifies Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) as the lowest cost technology for long-duration renewable energy storage, among the storage technologies required to reach net zero in Australia. The CSIRO Renewable Energy Storage Roadmap outlines the significant role that concentrating solar thermal power (often referred to as CSP or CST) will play …
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Renewable energy storage must undergo massive growth if Australia is to achieve net zero by 2050. A new report from the CSIRO and supported by ARENA funding, says between 10 to 14 times more storage could be needed in the coming decades to support the National Electricity Market (NEM). The Renewable Energy Storage Roadmap forecasts …