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Opportunities for Solar Industrial Process Heat in the United States

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1762440· OSTI ID:1762440
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  1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
  2. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
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Energy used in the production and processing of materials and products represents a significant fraction of the overall energy footprint of the industrial sector. Solar technologies may provide suitable alternative to existing combustion technologies, but their relevance for industries in the United States has been largely unexplored at the necessary levels of spatial, temporal, and operational detail. To provide the first assessment of the technical opportunities for solar technologies to meet the demand for process heat in the United States, we first develop estimates of energy use by process temperature at the county and hourly resolutions for all manufacturing industries. We then estimate the opportunities for seven solar technology packages—comprised of solar thermal and photovoltaic-connected electrotechnologies—to meet process heat demand given solar resources and available land area by county.
Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office; USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Strategic Programs Office
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1762440
Report Number(s):
NREL/TP--6A20-77760; MainId:30675; UUID:eb9be460-fdb2-4a90-9ced-584552266d3e; MainAdminID:19141
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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14 SOLAR ENERGY
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