Exploring the Potential of Thermal Energy Storage for a Sustainable Future
As the world continues to grapple with the challenges of climate change and the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the search for sustainable and efficient energy storage solutions has become a top priority. One promising techn...
Rocks: The Unexpected Powerhouse of Sustainable Solar Energy Storage
The future of sustainable energy storage might be found in commonplace materials such as rocks, specifically soapstone and granite, in combination with solar power, according to a study published in ACS Omega. The next generation of sustain...
Heliogen gets first Concentrated Solar Power hydrogen customer: City of Lancaster, CA
Collaboration to decarbonize Americas First Hydrogen City through Heliogens patented breakthrough CST technology. Heliogen, Inc.(Heliogen) (NYSE: HLGN), a leading provider of AI-enabled concentrating solar energy, today announced the execut...
Concentrated Solar Power with Thermal Energy Storage
Concentrated solar power (CSP) with thermal energy storage is an innovative and promising technology that has the potential to revolutionize the renewable energy sector. This technology harnesses the suns energy by using mirrors or lenses t...
Harnessing Concentrated Solar Power for Industrial Heat Applications
Concentrated solar power (CSP) has been gaining significant attention in recent years as a viable alternative to conventional fossil fuel-based energy generation. This technology, which uses mirrors or lenses to concentrate sunlight onto a ...
Solar Stirling Engines: Concentrated Power for a Green Future
Solar Stirling engines, a lesser-known but highly efficient solar technology, are gaining attention as a potential solution for a green future. These engines, which use concentrated sunlight to generate power, offer a promising alternative ...
Concentrated solar power firm Heliogen signs green hydrogen supply deal with city of Lancaster
Concentrated solar power firm Heliogen said it signed a contract with the city of Lancaster, California, to produce green hydrogen for the citys growing green hydrogen fuel needs. The deal represents Lancasters first hydrogen offtake agreem...
Harnessing the Sun: Concentrated Solar Power Systems
As the world continues to grapple with the effects of climate change and the urgent need to transition to cleaner, more sustainable energy sources, concentrated solar power (CSP) systems have emerged as a promising solution. Unlike traditio...
Australia’s first concentrated solar power plant edges closer to reality
Plans to build a concentrated solar power project in South Australia have edged closer to a final investment decision by the end of the year, with developer Vast Solar signing up Worley as an engineering partner on the first-of-its-kind pro...
DOE announces 7 awards to cut heliostat costs
The U.S. Department of Energys (DOEs) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratories, co-leads of the Heliostat Consortium, announced seven awardees from a request for proposals (RFP) aimed at achieving DOEs go...
Why Concentrated Solar Power is the kind of solar that could replace natural gas plants
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) is a dispatchable form of solar CSP power plants, like photovoltaic (PV) solar farms, are 100% solar and have stable prices, as both sell their projected generation over a 25-30 year period in a contract at a ...
Assessing the sustainability impacts of concentrated solar power deployment in Europe
Considering that CSP could be promoted in Europe, additional installed capacity will have positive or negative impacts on the economy, society and the environment, or trigger higher or lower energy supply dependence from non-European econom...
Heliostat Consortium Unveils Funding Awards to Facilitate Affordable and Accessible Heliostat Deployment
The Heliostat Consortium, led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories, has announced seven awardees from a request for proposals aimed at reducing the cost of heliostats and creating new market opportuni...
Concentrated Solar Power + thermochemical storage for solar under grey skies 365 days/yr
Typically, simplicity equals low costs. But the creators of a multi-technology thermochemical energy storage system for Gen3 concentrating solar power (CSP) claim that their complex design would bring costs down by enabling the delivery of ...
Why Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) beats Photovoltaic (PV) at less than 3 USD cents per kWh
The cost of renewable energy is dropping every year, and this year we saw record low cost Photovoltaic (PV) projects such as the 800 MW project in Dubai offered at 2.99 US$ cents/kWh. So how is it that concentrating solar power (CSP) is sti...