Summary report for Concentrating Solar Power Thermal Storage Workshop
Subtitle: new concepts and materials for thermal energy storage and heat-transfer fluids, May 20, 2011
By: G. Glatzmaier
Contributors: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)
Series: NREL/TP -- 5500-52134; NREL/TP -- 5500-52134.
Publisher: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Golden, Colo
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Solar concentrators; Congresses; Solar thermal energy; Heat storage; Solar power plants
Description: This document summarizes a workshop on thermal energy storage for concentrating solar power (CSP) that was held in Golden, Colorado, on May 20, 2011. The event was hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories. The objective was to engage the university and laboratory research communities to identify and define research directions for developing new high-temperature materials and systems that advance thermal energy storage for CSP technologies. This workshop was motivated, in part, by the DOE SunShot Initiative, which sets a very aggressive cost goal for CSP technologies -- a levelized cost of energy of 6 cents per kilowatt-hour by 2020 with no incentives or credits.
Notes: Title from title screen (viewed on September 12, 2011).

"August 2011."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-16).

DE-AC36-08GO28308 CP09.2201

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