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U.S. DOE Announces $33M to Deploy Solar Technologies to Decarbonize America’s Industrial Sector

July 29, 2024 admin batteries, clean power, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, green economy, green jobs, investment, jennifer granholm, Joe Biden, lithium-ion batteries, Manufacturing, Solar energy, solar thermal, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 23:27:50 +0000

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 (DOE) today announced $33 million for nine projects across … [continued]

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Scientists Set A Solar Thermal Trap To Snare Fossil Fuels

May 18, 2024 admin clean power, concentrating solar power, csp, Energy, eth zurich, green hydrogen, hydrogen, renewable energy, research, SCIENCE, Solar energy, solar thermal, supercritical carbon dioxide, us department of energy (doe), usa

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 15 May 2024 19:39:41 +0000

A new solar thermal trap can help pave the way for compact, efficient concentrating solar systems to decarbonize heavy industries.

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National Solar Thermal Test Facility & University of Arizona Partner for HelioCon Project

February 6, 2024 admin clean power, heliostats, Solar energy, solar thermal, University of Arizona, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2024 04:19:42 +0000

Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility is partnering with the University of Arizona’s Professor J. Roger Angel for one of four projects the Heliostat Consortium awarded … [continued]

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Request for Information: Receiver & Reactors for Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power Plants and Solar Industrial Process Heat

January 27, 2024 admin clean power, concentrating solar power, Solar energy, solar energy technologies office (seto), solar thermal, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 18:35:03 +0000

On January 22, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) issued a request for information … [continued]

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A New All-Solid Battery Hits Long Duration Energy Storage Mark

November 20, 2023 admin arpa-e, california energy commission (cec), clean power, Energy Storage, green economy, long-duration energy storage, solar cells, Solar energy, solar thermal, thermoelectric, thermophotovoltaic

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 15:28:52 +0000

Solid blocks of carbon form the heart of a new long duration energy storage system aiming to decarbonize industrial processes.

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DOE Breaks Ground on Next-Generation Concentrating Solar Power Pilot

February 21, 2023 admin csp, csp pilot, DOE, particle-based receiver, power, sandia national laboratory, Solar, solar thermal, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 01:25:58 +0000

The Department of Energy (DOE) has broken ground on the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant (G3P3), a novel concentrating solar power (CSP) facility at Sandia National Laboratory that will use sand-like ceramic particles instead of molten salt to produce and store high-temperature energy. When completed in 2024, the “multi-megawatt” solar thermal pilot project will utilize an existing […]

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Solar Oven — Simple & Crucial

February 15, 2023 admin clean power, consumer technology, HEALTH, Solar energy, solar oven, solar thermal

Credit to Author: Jesper Berggreen| Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 04:59:32 +0000

Last year, in the the spring, I met Steen Carlsen. He has travelled extensively in Asia and East Africa, including Zambia, which is why I came to hear of him. Steen has a background in electronics and electrical engineering and we have had many interesting conversations already. Unfortunately, Steen is terminally ill, and is in […]

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Decarbonization Potential Of Solar Thermal

June 9, 2022 admin clean power, Solar energy, solar thermal, solarflux

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:50:52 +0000

In a new article by SolarFlux, CEO Naoise Irwin shares how solar thermal has massive yet under-appreciated decarbonization potential. Almost 6% of U.S. energy consumption could be decarbonized simply by using solar energy for industrial process heat applications, he wrote. According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), solar thermal and photovoltaic heat technologies can […]

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Solarflux: A Year Of FOCUS In The Field

March 24, 2022 admin clean power, Solar energy, solar thermal, solarflux

Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 01:52:45 +0000

Solarflux recently shared a twelve-month review of its FOCUS parabolic dish in operation. You may remember my interview with CEO Naoise Irwin last year about this technology. Naoise along with Solarflux CTO John Fangman, who invented the dish, shared how it converts 72% of solar energy into usable heat. In February 2022, the company reflected […]

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Novel Stellio Heliostat Solar Project Goes Online in China

March 2, 2020 admin Business, China, concentrated solar power, csp, csp developments, Energy Storage, hami project, International, news, Renewables, Research and Development, Solar, solar thermal, solar thermal technology, solarpaces, stelio, Technology, Uncategorized

Credit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 05:00:00 +0000

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One of the world’s first molten salt tower concentrated solar power (CSP) projects that uses a “Stellio” heliostat was grid-connected at the end of December in China’s Xinjiang province near the

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