Bluesolar, una innovadora patente desarrollada por las empresas andaluzas Ghenova y Capsun en Sevilla, fusiona tecnología fotovoltaica y termosolar en una sola planta, permitiendo la generación de electricidad tanto de día como de noche a un coste competitivo. 

The Small Innovative Projects in Solar (SIPS) 2023 funding opportunity will award $6.5 million for seedling R&D projects that focus on innovative and novel ideas in photovoltaics (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP). Announced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO), they are seeking projects that are and are “riskier than research ideas based on established technologies”. This topic area will support small, focused projects investigating the applicability and robustness of novel ideas in CSP. Responsive concepts include all aspects of CSP plants with thermal energy storage, as well as solar-thermal industrial process ...

Three years ago, Abengoa thermal energy storage engineer Cristina Prieto exchanged the relatively secretive world of commercial CSP for academia. Now, as the professor for a newly created thermal energy storage discipline at the School of Engineering at the University of Seville, she can be creative at the research level. Returning to academia enabled her to leverage her experience in thermal energy storage to innovate an entirely new storage concept based on four different phase-changing materials (PCM) cascaded in series. Prieto is now coordinating the EU’s $3 million, 4-year HYBRIDplus project involving three universities and four businesses, which began ...

To help propel new forms of renewable energy, the Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office has been encouraging development of next generation concentrating solar power (CSP) systems. CSP systems offer a distinct advantage over photovoltaics by enabling energy storage through means other than batteries. CSP uses a field of mirrors (heliostats) to concentrate sunlight onto a target (receiver) to irradiate a heat transfer medium. That heated medium is then used to generate electricity or drive other thermochemical reactions. Researchers at Sandia are investigating using particles (specifically, a ceramic bauxite particle) inside the receiver within a gravity-driven, tower system ...

Ese es el objetivo del nuevo proyecto europeo SunSon (Hijo del Sol), que coordina la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM). Este hito supondría más del doble de la temperatura de funcionamiento de las centrales termosolares existentes en la actualidad. España es la primera potencia del mundo por capacidad de generación termosolar instalada. Actualmente hay en el país una cincuentena de centrales termosolares, que suman 2.300 megavatios de potencia. Financiada por el programa Horizonte Europa, la iniciativa -informa la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM)- pretende propiciar una nueva generación de "centrales termosolares más compactas y eficientes que permitan producir energía ...