HelioCon: A roadmap for advanced heliostat technologies for concentrating solar 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:10.1016/j.solener.2023.111917

HelioCon: A roadmap for advanced heliostat technologies for concentrating solar 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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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 determinant of both capital cost and performance 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 Perspective, HelioCon presents a roadmapping study on advancing heliostat technologies, intended as a central reference for the entire CSP community.

Original language	English
Article number	111917
Journal	Solar Energy
Volume	264
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2023.111917
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2023

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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. (2023). HelioCon: A roadmap for advanced heliostat technologies for concentrating solar power. Solar Energy, 264, Article 111917. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solener.2023.111917

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