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Last Updated on: 20th April 2025, 03:01 pm
Concentrating solar power enjoyed a brief spurt of funding attention from the US Department of Energy back during the Obama administration, but private investors never picked up the ball. Now the solar fuels movement is breathing new life into the field. The latest example is the Swiss firm Synhelion, which is bringing its sunlight-to-fuel technology to Spain following a successful test run of its pilot facility in Jülich, Germany.
Concentrating Solar Power Meets Solar Fuels
The hookup between concentrating solar power and solar fuels has been years in the making. Concentrating solar power plants deploy a field of specialized mirrors to focus sunlight onto a central point, where it heats up a molten salt or…
