Hydroxide Molten Salt test in 20 MW Thermal Energy Storage Trial

20 MW Thermal Energy Storage Trials Hydroxide Molten Salt at the offshore energy island Bornholm Source: Recharge: Denmark’s ‘energy island’ of Bornholm is to host what is being claimed as “game changing” molten salts-based storage technology that its developer aims to deploy as a future large-scale source of renewable heat and power. Hyme Energy will …

Solar furnace to melt steel at 2000°C for Swiss recycler Panatère

This solar furnace built in Taskent during the Soviet era will be used by Panatère to melt steel. The formerly top secret solar furnace could melt up to 400 tons of recycled steel each year. Here, the rear view of a solar field of heliostats, staggered up a hillside, reflects sunlight into a huge concave mirror …

The race for solar megaprojects in North Africa that attracts Europeans

CSP project in desert Source: El Pais (Google translated from French) Between the deposits of the road that leads to Rjim Maatoug, along the Algerian border and 120 kilometers from Kébili, in the south of Tunisia, only hydrocarbon tankers pass through in an incessant ballet. This area, where identical-looking towns are threaded together, bordered by …

Shanghai Electric CSP starts sending overnight solar power to Dubai Grid

  The energy stored in 700 MW of Shanghai Electric’s trough tower CSP, once all units are operational, can generate power continuously for a maximum of 13.5 hours at night and 15 hours during periods of inclement weather. Source: Shanghai Electric for CSPFocus On November 29 (Dubai Time), the Trough Unit No. 1 facility of …

IEA Report: Raise Investment and R&D to Reach Green Hydrogen Goal by 2050

Direct heat solar thermochemistry using CST is a promising route to lower cost of green hydrogen production IMAGE@Heliogen IEA report calls for the development of national hydrogen strategies and roadmaps, new incentives for low-carbon hydrogen, and new certification requirements alongside increased research and infrastructure spending. Source: Utility Dive  Dive Brief: Global electrolyzer capacity for producing …

DLR-developed Solar Flux Measurement System Wins International CSP Tech Award

DLR and CSP Services Win the SolarPACES 2021 Award for their Solar Flux Density Measurement System New measuring system determines the flux density of receivers in solar tower power plants This year’s SolarPACES Technology Award goes to a team of researchers from the DLR Institute of Solar Research and CSP Services. The measurement method they …

Solar Fuels Pioneer Synhelion Acquires Smart Mirror Expert Heliokon

Heliokon co-founder Patrick Hilger and Synhelion CEO Gianluca Ambrosetti stand in front of Heliokon solar mirrors for very high temperature solar applications like Synhelion’s solar fuels Press Release: Lugano, Switzerland, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, September 28, 2021 The Swiss solar fuel pioneer Synhelion SA has acquired German company Heliokon GmbH, an expert in concentrated solar power …

Masdar City Start-up Seramic Materials Launches 100% Recycled Thermal Energy Storage

Seramic Materials 100% recycled ceramic stores heat at temperatures up to 1250°C for thermal energy storage or high temperature CST processes Source: Utilities ME Masdar City-based Seramic Materials, a start-up company supported by accelerator The Catalyst, has developed a unique patented solution to recycle industrial solid waste into a high-temperature thermal energy storage (TES) product …