Solar power research heats up.
Concentrated solar power has the potential to lower the cost of renewable energy and provide highly available dispatchable energy at any time of the day.National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Department of Energy are both working on the next generation of CPS facilities as part of the DoE's plans to reach an energy cost goal of 5 cents per kWh,In the road to achieve this goal, U.S.
A few practical challenges have stood in the way when it comes to molten salt CPS. For example, the material is corrosive and can cause damage to holding tanks during the process of transferring heat energy. However, according to Craig Turchi, who leads thermal energy science and technologies research at NREL, the researchers have"