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NREL ETES long-duration thermal energy storage – IMAGE ©NREL Four years ago, researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) won Department of Energy (DOE) ARPA-E funding to invent a new long-duration thermal energy storage technology able to discharge heat or power for 100 hours. The goal was to devise long-duration storage with a storage …
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Successful Projects Will help lower cost of CSP and support the next generation of highly trained solar field workers Heliostats, the large mirrors that track the sun to reflect and direct its rays to heat a solar receiver— are critical for efficient, cost-effective concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) plants. When hundreds or thousands of heliostats work …
1000-hour thermal energy storage in abandoned oil wells has been studied in these regions in California and Texas, and a demo project is now starting in California A demo of 1000-hour thermal energy storage in depleted oil wells is one of the breakthrough new climate technologies to have received funding from the US Department of …
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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ANNOUNCES $33 MILLION TO DEPLOY SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES TO DECARBONIZE AMERICA’S INDUSTRIAL SECTOR Nine Projects Across Seven States Will Support Solar-Powered Production of Hydrogen and Lower Emissions from the Aviation, Food and Beverage, and Other Sectors WASHINGTON, D.C.—In support of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy …
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced the Concentrating Solar Flux to Heat and Power funding opportunity, which will award $30 million for innovative research, development, and demonstration projects that accelerate the large-scale development and deployment of concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) technology. CSP technologies offer unique value as a renewable …
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Solar Energy Technologies Office The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced its intent to fund the Concentrating Solar Flux to Heat and Power funding opportunity, which will award up to $30 million for innovative projects that accelerate the large-scale development and deployment of concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) technology. CSP technologies …
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Vast Solar is one of the few commercial firms numbering-up modules in CSP. Efficiency or LCOE: which is more important to reduce the cost of Gen-3 CSP systems? A pair of related papers from ANU in Australia compare the value of efficiency versus Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) in Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) systems. The …
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The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) provides access to debt capital for high-impact energy and manufacturing projects. Over more than a decade, LPO has developed a strong understanding of what makes a project more likely to advance through LPO’s processes, as well as the areas that commonly slow down or stop projects in the process. …
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Abstract: The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has been conducting exposure experiments on solar reflectors for over four decades. Thousands of mirror samples from over one hundred suppliers have been exposed to and monitored in a range of relevant environments. These test conditions include outdoor test settings and several controlled laboratory environments. These samples have …
The U.S. Department of Energy has set a goal to make green hydrogen domestically at $1 per kilogram by 2030. Current costs range from $3 to $8 and none of it is being done at scale. Getting the cost of green hydrogen down is a serious concern for policymakers and industry alike. Most efforts are …