Roadmap to Advance Heliostat Technologies for Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power

Technical Report · Thu Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1888029· OSTI ID:1888029

Zhu, Guangdong ^[1]; Augustine, Chad ^[1]; Mitchell, Rebecca ^[1]; Muller, Matthew ^[1]; Kurup, Parthiv ^[1]; Zolan, Alexander ^[1]; Yellapantula, Shashank ^[1]; Brost, Randy ^[2]; Armijo, Kenneth ^[2]; Sment, Jeremy ^[2]; Schaller, Rebecca ^[2]; Gordon, Margaret ^[2]; Collins, Mike ^[3]; Coventry, Joe ^[4]; Pye, John ^[4]; Cholette, Michael ^[5]; Picotti, Giovanni ^[5]; Arjomandi, Maziar ^[6]; Emes, Matthew ^[6]; Potter, Daniel ^[3] ; Rae, Michael ^[3]

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1. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
2. Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
3. Australian Solar Thermal Research Inst. (ASTRI) (Australia); Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Canberra, ACT (Australia)
4. Australian Solar Thermal Research Inst. (ASTRI) (Australia); Australian National Univ., Canberra, ACT (Australia)
5. Australian Solar Thermal Research Inst. (ASTRI) (Australia); Queensland Univ. of Technology, Brisbane (Australia)
6. Australian Solar Thermal Research Inst. (ASTRI) (Australia); Univ. of Adelaide, SA (Australia)

Heliostat-based concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) systems can offer immense potential to provide low-cost, dispatchable renewable thermal and electrical energy to help achieve 100% decarbonized energy infrastructure in the United States. Heliostats are a major capital cost technology and a performance-dominating component of state-of-the-art commercial molten salt towers and Generation 3 CSP systems. In 2021, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) launched the Heliostat Consortium (HelioCon), a five-year initiative to advance heliostat technologies. The HelioCon mission is threefold: (1) establish strategic core testing and modeling capabilities and infrastructure at national labs; (2) support heliostat technology development in relevant industries; and (3) serve as a central repository to integrate industry, academia, and other stakeholders for heliostat technology research, development, validation, and deployment. In this report, HelioCon presents a roadmapping study on advancing heliostat technologies, intended as a central reference for the whole CSP community.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Renewable Power Office. Solar Energy Technologies Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 1888029
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP-5700-83041; MainId:83814; UUID:f2594d9a-002a-4fd9-b7d2-25fc8c38d104; MainAdminID:65435
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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