- Heliogen(Pasadena, CA): This project will demonstrate a CSP process for decarbonizing the heating of limestone to 950°C, which could reduce the carbon emissions associated with manufacturing cement. (Award Amount: $4.1 million)
- Sandia National Laboratories(Albuquerque, NM): This project will optimize heat-transfer processes and designs associated with the production of solar-thermal production of cement. (Award Amount: $2.6 million)
- Solar Dynamics(Broomfield, CO): This project will develop and test designs of novel molten salt thermal energy storage tanks to enable the delivery of carbon-free heat on-demand. (Award Amount:$2.3 million)
- University of Florida(Gainesville, FL): This project will design and validate a highly efficient and scalable solar thermochemical reactor to produce hydrogen from water and sunlight. (Award Amount: $2.2 million)
- University of Maryland: College Park(College Park, MD): This project will develop a novel chemical reactor to decarbonize the production of propylene, a key precursor to manychemicals.(Award Amount: $2 million)
- GE Research(Niskayuna, NY): This project will aim to deliver a preliminary design of a supercritical carbon-dioxide (sCO2) power block that is optimized for Gen3 CSP that uses solid particles. (Award Amount: $1.6 million)
- Mississippi State University(Starkville, MS): The project team will develop a novel particle-based thermochemical energy storage system for CSP.(Award Amount: $3.1 million)
- Sandia National Laboratories(Albuquerque, NM):This project will design high-temperature mass flow sensorsthatuse solid particles tomoveand storethermalenergy for the reliable operation of Gen3 CSP systems.(Award Amount: $1million)
- Sandia National Laboratories(Albuquerque, NM): This project will design a modular slide gate system for control of particle flows in CSP receivers, in collaboration with an industrial valve manufacturer.(Award Amount: $1.9 million)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison(Madison, WI): This project aims to develop a prototype particle-to-sCO2heat exchanger using advanced design and manufacturing techniques. (Award Amount: $3.1 million)