Roadmap to Advance Heliostat Technologies for Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power

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

doi:10.2172/1888029

Roadmap to Advance Heliostat Technologies for Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power

Guangdong Zhu, Chad Augustine, Rebecca Mitchell, Matthew Muller, Parthiv Kurup, Alexander Zolan, Shashank Yellapantula, Randy Brost, Kenneth Armijo, Jeremy Sment, Rebecca Schaller, Margaret Gordon, Mike Collins, Joe Coventry, John Pye, Michael Cholette, Giovanni Picotti, Maziar Arjomandi, Matthew Emes, Daniel PotterMichael Rae

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Abstract

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.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	197
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2172/1888029
State	Published - 2022

NREL Publication Number

NREL/TP-5700-83041

Keywords

concentrating solar thermal power
CSP
heliostat
LCOE
LCOH
SAM
soiling
System Advisor Model
techno-economic analysis
wind-loading

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Zhu, G., Augustine, C., Mitchell, R., Muller, M., Kurup, P., Zolan, A., Yellapantula, S., Brost, R., Armijo, K., Sment, J., Schaller, R., Gordon, M., Collins, M., Coventry, J., Pye, J., Cholette, M., Picotti, G., Arjomandi, M., Emes, M., ... Rae, M. (2022). Roadmap to Advance Heliostat Technologies for Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power. https://doi.org/10.2172/1888029

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