China's national carbon trading market records big growth
The file photo shows a wind power plant in Zhangjiakou, North Chinas Hebei province. [Photo/Xinhua] Chinas national carbon trading market has witnessed significant growth since it was launched in July 2021, with trading volume and value bot...
Optimal Design of an Absorbent-Enhanced Ammonia Synthesis Process for Solar Thermochemical Energy Storage
Published at ACS Sustainable Chemistry Engineering Optimal Design of an Absorbent-Enhanced Ammonia Synthesis Process for Solar Thermochemical Energy Storage Abstract: Concentrating solar power systems are crucial for capturing solar energy....
Experts show different metal reduces thermal energy storage tank failures
Storage tank failure has long bedeviled the oil and gas industry. But there the liquids are not stored at such high temperatures as for concentrated solar thermal energy, with its daily cycling form hot to hotter Todays commercial Concentra...
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Carbon sequestration in mining waste over the past 50 years can be seen at BPH Groups Australian nickel mine at Mt Keith. The mineral wastes have weathered and become bluer and then whiter, indicating the changed chemical composition as it ...
Difficult market environment for residential solar thermal providers in Germany
Photo: Volkssolaranlage Fewer and fewer solar collectors are being bought in Germany: the negative trend from the previous year continued in the first quarter of 2024. Sales of solar collectors fell from just under 500 MW of capacity in 202...
Innovative trends on the still declining Chinese market
Source: CSTIF umerous innovative trends, the Chinese solar thermal market continues to shrink. In 2023, 15.3 GW of collectors were installed in China, 8 % less than in the previous year. This number also includes a small portion of exported...
Solar Heat Worldwide: two more new world’s largest solar heat plants
Source of infographics: IEA SHC Programme Solar heat is a versatile technology that now provides heating services to 122 million customers worldwide. The just published Solar Heat Worldwide study, edition 2024, contains the latest data on a...
World’s first solar jet fuel plant inaugurated by Synhelion
Worlds first solar jet fuel plant inaugurated by Synhelion Dawn. Today Synhelion inaugurated the worlds first industrial-scale plant to produce synthetic fuels using solar heat in Jlich. By inaugurating DAWN, Synhelion proves that the techn...
Cosin Solar wins 100 MW CSP project bid for Luneng Fukang
Cosin Solar wins 100 MW CSP project bid for Luneng Fukang [Ed: Previously, Cosin Solar won the bid to supply the solar field of heliostats and the associated molten solar receiver system. With this weeks news, they have now won the bid for ...
A new common language to speed solar hydrogen research
IMAGE Chemical Potential Analysisas an Alternative to the vant Hoff Method: Hypothetical Limits of Solar Thermochemical Hydrogen . Could the Chemical Potential Analysis method work better than the vant Hoff method? NRELs Stephan Lany propos...
Synhelion partnering with Pilatus to scale its solar fuel
Press Release: Pilatus and Synhelion are about to launch a strategic cooperation aimed at accelerating the scaling of solar fuels for the aviation industry. Pilatus intends to use Synhelions solar fuels for its own operations and also offer...
Heat trap demonstrated in quartz at over 1,000℃ for solar receivers
After the solar heat trap experiment measuring the temperature increase to 1050C at the back of the solar receiver inside a solid block of quartz, even at the front, the temperature measured 450C IMAGE Solar thermal trapping at 1,000C and a...
Valparaiso University undergrads demonstrate multi-year thermochemical energy storage
I MAGEValparaiso University The solar lab at Valparaiso University: This solar furnace uses a horizontal, on-axis optical configuration. A heliostat reflects solar radiation into a faceted, spherical concentrator comprising 305 hexagonal mi...
CSP experts launch SolStor Energy: long-duration storage for the US
SolStor Energy will combine CSP+TES delivering solar at night, complementing PV in the new 100% renewable grid A team of industry experts have joined together to form SolStor Energy , a new US development company to deploy concentrating sol...
US DOE invests USD 71m in US solar supply chain development
The US Department of Energy (DOE) on Thursday announced an investment of USD 71 million (EUR 65.3m) in research, development and demonstration projects to advance the US solar supply chain. Image by First Solar Inc. The funding, which inclu...