• Concentrating Solar Power
  • Systems
  • Components
  • Competitive Awards
    • CSP Research & Development
    • Thermal Storage
    • CSP Recovery Act
    • Baseload
    • CSP SunShot
    • Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
    • National Laboratory Research & Development
• Photovoltaics
• Systems Integration
• Balance of Systems

Concentrating Solar Power Competitive Awards

DOE funds concentrating solar power (CSP) research and development (R&D) projects through competitive solicitations, which are released for public response as financial opportunity announcements. The following projects represent recent and ongoing research efforts:

• Concentrating Solar Power R&D (2007)
• Advanced Heat Transfer Fluids and Novel Thermal Storage Concepts for CSP (2008)
• CSP ARRA (2009)
• Baseload (2010)
• CSP SunShot R&D (2012)
• MURI HOT Fluids (2012)
• National Laboratory R&D (2012).