It successfully demonstrates low-cost storage technology for concentrated solar power (CSP) and is considered significant, as solar energy can now be stored in solid state at temperatures up to 400 Celsius at Masdar Inst
The project, to be undertaken at Masdar’s ‘Beam Down’ Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), will seek to study the feasibility and benefits of a novel TES system developed.
Aalborg CSP A/S and NEST AS have jointly developed a cost-competitive thermal energy storage (TES) system.
The two are to use NEST’s prototype Thermal Energy Storage (TES) system along with Masdar’s experimental ‘beam-down’ CSP installation at Masdar City, with work set to commence in the second quarter of 2014.
