On the final day of the SolarPACES Conference 2025, Cosin Solar received the inaugural SolarPACES Implementation Award for the 50 MW Delingha Concentrated Solar Power plant, recognizing its long term stable operation of concentrated solar technologies. Since beginning operation among China’s first batch of demonstration projects in 2019 with 7 hours of thermal storage in […] The post Cosin Solar is first to win SolarPACES new Technology Implementation Award appeared first on SolarPACES.| SolarPACES
On the closing day of SolarPACES 2025 in Almeria, NREL’s Mark Mehos and Craig Turchi were jointly recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Award for transformative leadership in advancing the commercialization of concentrating solar power. Mehos, now Principal Engineer Emeritus at NREL, fostered international collaboration pioneering thermal energy storage integration, leading the development and analysis of […] The post NREL’s Mark Mehos and Craig Turchi win the 2025 Lifetime Achieveme...| SolarPACES
The 2025 Technology Innovation Award was jointly presented to ODQA, a University of Oxford spin-off, together with KTH Royal Institute of Technology, for their pioneering work advancing high-temperature air-based industrial heat. ODQA’s rotary receiver generates air at above 1000 °C, adapting principles from gas turbine engineering, while KTH’s radial packed-bed thermal energy storage efficiently stores and […] The post KTH and ODQA win the SolarPACES 2025 Technology Innovation Award...| SolarPACES