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Concentrating solar power systems are getting an energy efficiency makeover and a new job: producing solar fuels. The solar fuels field is beginning to gather steam, and that could spell good news for fans of concentrating solar power. Compared to conventional solar panels, concentrating systems are sprawling, expensive, and complicated affairs. However, they can deliver …
Australia’s science agency CSIRO announced that its Concentrated Solar Power research facility in Newcastle, New South Wales had a breakthrough as part of research investigating the potential of “falling ceramic particles” to capture and store solar energy as heat. CSIRO’s solar thermal facility in Newcastle has 400 mirrors. (Image by CSIRO). In detail, the solar …
The EuroTrough technology, developed by sbp sonne, has been selected for China’s newest Concentrated Solar Power plant in Tibet. sbp sonne will provide the technology and engineering service for this challenging site at an elevation of 4,500 meters in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The ZhabuYe Parabolic Trough power plant in the highlands of …
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At the 4th SFERA-III Doctoral Colloquium and Summer School, around fifty young researchers from all over the world met in Cologne from 11 to 15 September 2023. Doctoral students from the Institute of Solar Research and the Institute of Future Fuels exchanged expertise with their European colleagues and made valuable contacts. Summer school SFERA On …
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The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, together with his entourage and a delegation of businessmen from the energy sector, will visit the Chinese Concentrated Solar Power 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 the Asociación …
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Tunisia is innovating in the field of desalination. Tunisian engineers have just inaugurated Desaltec-z1 at the Miladi organic oil mill in Zarzis, in the south-east of the country. The new plant desalts well water using the reverse osmosis process, powered by solar thermal energy. Work on the solar thermal water desalination plant in Zarzis is …
Heliogen, a leading AI-enabled concentrating solar energy technology provider, has reached two significant milestones in the development of its Capella Project. The Capella Project is the world’s first fully integrated Gen3 Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) commercial demonstration. Firstly, Heliogen has successfully deployed the first commercial-scale centrifugal particle receiver for on-sun testing. This receiver plays a …
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Breakthrough solar thermal research is using ceramic particles that act like a battery, storing solar energy as heat. Concentrated solar thermal (CST) with ceramic particles offer a reliable, renewable power source that can be used even when the sun isn’t shining. This technology could play a key role in reducing industrial emissions, which currently account …
Conventional systems for producing hydrogen depend on fossil fuels, but the new system uses only concentrated solar power. MIT engineers aim to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like system of reactors that is driven solely by the sun. In a study appearing today in Solar Energy Journal, the engineers lay out …
The hybrid renewable energy system based on concentrated solar power (CSP) technology has been demonstrated as a promising approach to utilise renewable energy. To combine the configuration and operation with practical application scenarios, this study investigates three different operation modes of the hybrid system which consists of one or more components of a CSP power …