Chilean President to visit Cosin Solar CSP project in China

IMAGE at Cosin Solar The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, together with his entourage and a delegation of businessmen from the energy sector, will visit the Chinese CSP plant with the highest production in the world, according to H2 News. President Boric, accompanied by representatives of Cosin Solar, an international company that is part of …

Black coating mimicking sea corals wins SolarPACES 2023 innovation award

Smiles abound at SolarPACES 2023 where the engineers behind a record-setting solar energy coating received the Technology Innovation Award. From L to R: PhD candidate Yifan Guo, Dr Juan Felipe Torres, Dr Joe Coventry, Kaoru Tsuda, CEO of Nano Frontier Technology, and ANU PhD candidate Sahar Hosseini. FRIDAY 13 OCTOBER 2023 An international team of engineers …

Cosin Solar now supplies 1 GW of China’s tower CSP

Cosin Solar now supplies 1 GW of China’s tower CSP Press Release: Cosin Solar Sealing One More Deal, Cosin Solar’s Total Tower CSP Projects Hit 1GW! Cosin Solar Technology Co., Ltd. (“Cosin Solar”) and State Power Investment Shandong Electric Power Engineering Consulting Institute Co., Ltd. (“SDEPCI”) signed the contract for Solar Field , MSR Systems …

$30 million in DOE funding for solar thermal fuel, heat, or storage

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced the Solar-thermal Fuels and Thermal Energy Storage Via Concentrated Solar-thermal Energy funding opportunity, which will award $30 million for projects to produce fuels via renewable energy resources and improve thermal energy storage technologies. The research, development, and demonstration projects resulting from this funding …

Women in Concentrated Solar opens mentorship program

Do you want to become a mentor? Women+ in Concentrated Solar is starting a mentorship program for women and other underrepresented genders in the concentrated solar sector, to help our mentees grow as professionals. In a first step, we are looking for mentors (all gender identities welcome). Mentors will be expected to meet with their mentee(s) once a month for …

Solar hydrogen testing begins at CSIRO conference tour site

Solar hydrogen testing has begun at the CSIRO test site in Australia. The concentrated solar falling particle receiver seen here reaches the high temperatures used for solar thermochemistry. SolarPACES Conference 2023 will include a site tour here. IMAGE@Wil Gardner, CSIRO Tests are underway on a cutting edge renewable hydrogen technology that is being backed by …