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$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 …

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How can Synhelion’s solar receiver achieve such high temperatures?

How can Synhelion’s solar receiver reach such high temperatures? Synhelion’s solar receiver achieves a temperature of 1,500°C and higher. That’s unprecedented. Even the Gen3 particle-based solar receiver being pilot-scale tested now at Sandia – and the DLR CentRec receiver licensed to Heliogen – operate at the (relatively!) lower temperature of 1,000°C. One of Synhelion’s solar …

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Spain seeks thermal energy storage proposals by September

The government of Spain is launching €280 million (US$310 million) in grants for standalone energy storage projects, thermal energy storage and reversible pumped hydro to go online in 2026. The Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) opened a public consultation into the grant scheme last month seeking comments on the proposal …

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Seramic Materials’ thermal energy storage in recycled ceramics gets a trial

Seramic Materials’ thermal energy storage material using recycled ceramics, gets a first customer; Storenergy [Ed: The storage material is by Seramic Materials; developed by Nicolas Calvet, Founder and Chair of the Masdar Institute Solar Platform, the first CSP and thermal energy storage research facility in the UAE (United Arab Emirates)] Source: PV Magazine Serbia-based Storenergy …

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Australian metals to decarbonize with GlassPoint’s solar steam

The new GlassPoint sells solar steam as a service, rather than requiring customers to buy the project “Now a lot of our pipeline of companies that we’re now in discussion with is in Australia, where electricity prices are high, so electrifying is just far too expensive,” he said. Ten years ago, GlassPoint CEO Rod MacGregor …

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