-- These projects are inactive --
In 2008, DOE issued the Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Generation funding opportunity announcement (FOA). The following projects were selected under this competitive solicitation:
- Abengoa: Reducing the Cost of Thermal Energy Storage for Parabolic Trough Solar Power Plants
- Acciona Solar: Indirect, Dual-Media, Phase Changing Material Modular Thermal Energy Storage System
- Acciona Solar: Sensible Heat, Direct, Dual-Media Thermal Energy Storage Module
- City College of New York: A Novel Storage Method for CSP Plants Allowing Operation at High Temperature
- General Atomics:Thermochemical Heat Storage for CSP Based on Multivalent Metal Oxides
- Halotechnics: Deep Eutectic Salt Formulations Suitable as Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids
- Infinia: Innovative Application of Maintenance-Free Phase-Change Thermal Energy Storage for Dish Engine Systems
- Lehigh University: Novel Thermal Storage Technologies for Concentrating Solar Power Generation
- Terrafore: Heat Transfer and Latent Heat Storage in Inorganic Molten Salts for CSP Plants
- Texas Engineering Experiment Station: Molten Salt-Carbon Nanotube Thermal Storage
- University of Alabama: Novel Molten Salts Thermal Energy Storage for Concentrating Solar Power Generation
- University of Arkansas: Development and Performance Evaluation of High Temperature Concrete for Thermal Energy Storage for Solar Power Generation
- University of Connecticut: Novel Thermal Energy Storage Systems (TES) for Concentrating Solar Power (CSP)
- US Solar Holdings: CSP Energy Storage Solutions – Multiple Technologies Compared