Thermal energy storage (TES) is increasingly important due to the demand-supply
challenge caused by the intermittency of renewable energy and waste heat dissipation to …

The achievement of European climate energy objectives which are contained in the
European Union's (EU)“20–20–20 ″targets and in the European Commission's (EC) …

In this perspective paper, the present status and development tendency of concentrating
solar power (CSP) are analyzed from two aspects:(1) Potential pathways to efficient CSP …

Industry is one of the leading energy consumers with a global share of 37%. Fossil fuels are
used to meet more then 80% of this demand. The sun's heat can be exploited in most …

The cost of renewable energy has significantly decreased in recent years, which marks the
way towards a fully renewable and sustainable future. However, this energy transition is not …

The development of clean hydrogen production methods is important for large-scale
hydrogen production applications. The solar thermochemical water-splitting cycle is a …

A comprehensive review of different thermal energy storage materials for concentrated solar
power has been conducted. Fifteen candidates were selected due to their nature …

Energy storage based on thermochemical systems is gaining momentum as a potential
alternative to molten salts in Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants. This work is a detailed …

Liquid air energy storage, a recently introduced grid-scale energy storage technology, has
attracted attention in recent years due to its unique characteristics: geographic location …

Conventional thermal energy storage (TES) media and heat transfer fluids (HTFs) currently
used in commercial concentrated solar power (CSP) plants are nitrate-based molten salts …