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CSP auction price trends IMAGE @IRENA Morocco’s 800 MW CSP-PV Noor Midelt breaks last year’s auction price record of 7.3 cents set by DEWA in the UAE, with winning bid at USD 7 cents/kWh The Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy (MASEN) has announced that the consortium of EDF Renewables, Masdar, and Green of Africa – …
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Standalone thermal storage: “Incredibly cheap grid-scale storage with a very long calendar life” Breakthrough Energy Ventures funds Malta thermal energy storage battery for power and district heating IMAGE @BEV The new Venture Capital (VC) firm Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) only invests in technologies they vet as both “scientifically feasible at scale” and with the potential …
Continue reading “VC-Funded Thermal “Battery” is Based on CSP Molten Salt Energy Storage”
Thermal energy stored in steel slag could replace fossil fuels used for heat in steel production Slag is the steel industry’s biggest waste byproduct. It could find a use: to cut the carbon emissions from steel production Starting this year, thermal energy researchers in Spain’s Basque Country will test the use of slag as thermal …
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Converting disused coal plants into Carnot batteries IMAGE@DLR Retiring coal power plants could see a new life serving the green economy by storing renewable energy as thermal batteries, delivering the stored energy back to the grid using the former coal plant’s existing power blocks and grid connections. Leveraging the low cost of the molten salt …
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A study commissioned by the Chilean government and presented before the SolarPACES Conference in Morocco makes data available to potential participants in a Chilean CSP industry. The study, Local Content in CSP:CST Projects- Assessment of the Chilean Industry is designed to put together useful information for both international CSP developers bidding in auctions and local …
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Shouhang’s 100MW CSP project at Dunhuang IMAGE @CSPPLAZA China could be the first to deploy s-CO2 in CSP The world’s initial Concentrated SolarPower (CSP) plants continue to use the legacy steam cycles of conventional thermal plants. But steam cycle is a mature technology with temperature-based efficiency limits, hampering the potential to raise efficiency and lower costs. …
Continue reading “Shouhang and EDF to Test s-CO2 Cycle in Concentrated Solar Power”
Merredin Spirulina Algae Farm in Western Australia IMAGE@ ThinkSiD Algae is a potential energy feedstock that is synergistic with solar fuels because algae can be grown in salt water on cheap desert land with a good solar resource, and it also contains the hydrocarbon chemicals needed for making solar fuels (hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen). …
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The tower form of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) is very young technology. Less than a gigawatt is deployed globally, making it a nascent technology at the “Cambrian explosion” stage; multiple innovations are still being explored to cut costs. (How tower CSP works) A new economic study looks at reducing its Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCOE) …
Thermal energy stored in steel slag could replace fossil fuels used for heat in steel production Slag is the steel industry’s biggest waste byproduct. It could find a use: to cut the carbon emissions from steel production Starting this year, thermal energy researchers in Spain’s Basque Country will test the use of slag as thermal …
Continue reading “Could a Steel Waste Byproduct Cut the Steel Industry’s Own CO2 Emissions?”
IMAGE @ Johan Lilliestam: How CSP expertise moves from nation to nation as development is incentivized As China closes in on doubling today’s entire total global capacity of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), a new paper, The Dragon Awakens: Will China Save or Conquer Concentrating Solar Power? analyses the potential impact that the nation’s ambitions, and …