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CSP Seminar Series: Overview and Opportunities for the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant

News Article, October 4, 2024 • The next installment of the National Solar Thermal Test Facility’s Concentrating Solar Power Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2024, from 10-11 a.m. MDT. Join Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant (G3P3) Principal Investigator Jeremy Sment for “Overview and Opportunities for the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant,” an...

Image of the two towers:orignal built in 197 and the new G3P3 tower with heliostats at the bottom

National Solar Thermal Test Facility prepares for new tower construction

News Article, January 23, 2023 • Construction on the new tower at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) is planned to begin Feb. 16, 2023, with a groundbreaking ceremony to take place at the facility. The tower is part of the Phase III, $25 million award announced by The U.S. Department of Energy...

New solar thermal tower key component of national energy goals

News Article, March 10, 2023 • Sandia hosted a Feb. 16 groundbreaking ceremony to begin the construction of a new solar tower at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility. The tower is part of the $25 million award announced by the DOE to include the building, testing and demonstration of a next-generation concentrating solar thermal power...

Sandia wins $25 million DOE award to build next-generation CSP power plant

News Article, May 4, 2021 • Sandia National Laboratories has won a $25 million award from The Department of Energy to build, test, and demonstrate a next-generation concentrating solar thermal power plant at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility. The funding is part of the roughly $70 million, three-year-old DOE Generation 3 Concentrating Solar Power systems...

Proposed G3P3-USA system at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility. (Illustration by Cliff Ho and Kevin Albrecht)

Successful G3P3 receiver test is a step towards commercial scalability

News Article, September 18, 2024 • Researchers at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility have successfully tested the Generation 3 Particle Pilot Plant’s falling particle receiver. This new receiver is double the size of its predecessor and operates at two megawatts of concentrated radiative energy. The test represents an important step toward the commercial scalability of...

Testing heat exchangers helps move solar plans forward

News Article, June 14, 2021 • STEADY AS SHE FLOWS — An illustration of the test facility, where particle and sCO2 flows can circulate indefinitely and achieve true steady-state operating conditions by maintaining accurate control over the heat exchanger inlet temperatures. (Graphic by Kevin Albrecht) Sandia researchers have completed a two-year effort to evaluate heat exchanger...