The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) 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 DOE’s goals for heliostat cost reduction, sustained multifaceted innovation, and improved solar field performance. Low-cost heliostats offer significant renewable energy potential. They enable 5 cents [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy celebrated the groundbreaking of its Generation 3 concentrating solar-thermal pilot facility at Sandia National Laboratories. This demonstration is the culmination of a $100 million research effort to develop next-generation concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) plants and showcase storage technology that could provide one gigawatt of storage for one hour at a [...]
The pilot at Sandia will demonstrate its next-generation high-temperature concentrated solar technology that can be used for energy storage, power production, industrial process heat, or solar fuel production. Among the challenges addressed during the particle-based high-temperature solar technology developed at Sandia is that at any one time, almost 3 tons of hot sand would be [...]
Las nuevas válvulas de control de flujo mejorarán la distribución de calor y minimizarán los riesgos en las conexiones críticas, con lo que posibilitarán temperaturas más elevadas de la CSP y una mayor eficiencia en la conversión de energía, según dijo el grupo de investigación de Sandia National Laboratories a Reuters Events. El nuevo diseño [...]