Mastodawn

Minigrids and PV are great, but local businesses like bakeries need intense heat for cooking.
Electric ovens can easily overload a grid, but Lytefire solves this by using mirrors to convert sunlight directly into heat.
This is far more efficient than 20% efficiency solar panels and keeps minigrids reliable by displacing high-energy thermal loads.

More about the Lytefire tech: https://lytefire.com/tech

#minigrid #solarthermal #renewableenergies

Hackaday [Unofficial]Feb 26

The MOST Effective Thermal Mass Works Like a Sunburn

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/02/25/the-most-effective-thermal-mass-works-like-a-sunburn/

13 Feb 26

The MOST Effective Thermal Mass Works Like a Sunburn https://hackaday.com/2026/02/25/the-most-effective-thermal-mass-works-like-a-sunburn/
#SolarHacks #Molecularenergystorage #Solarthermal #Thermalenergystorage

The MOST Effective Thermal Mass Works Like A Sunburn

Way, way back in the days when men wore beards and wide-lapelled suits in exotic colors, only NASA had access to photovoltaics and ‘solar’ meant solar thermal. In those days of appropri…

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Tina M Casey Jan 28

A US startup is bringing concentrating solar power back to the US.

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/01/27/here-comes-concentrating-solar-power-to-decarbonize-industrial-heat/

#solar #solarpower #solarenergy #renewableenergy #greenenergy #cleanenergy #decarbonization #industry #industrial #solarthermal #us #manufacturers #csp #concentratingsolar #investors #investing #sustainability

Here Comes Concentrating Solar Power For Your Industrial Heat

The US concentrating solar power startup GlassPoint has its sights set on ripe solar markets in the US Southwest and elsewhere.

CleanTechnica

Tina M Casey Jan 28

A US startup is bringing concentrating solar power back to the US.

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/01/27/here-comes-concentrating-solar-power-to-decarbonize-industrial-heat/

Here Comes Concentrating Solar Power For Your Industrial Heat

The US concentrating solar power startup GlassPoint has its sights set on ripe solar markets in the US Southwest and elsewhere.

CleanTechnica

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sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞Oct 25, 2025

@pinhman

Absolutely. Drake Landings is amazing and perfectly demonstrates what can be achieved with solar thermal in cold climates. The cost is a drop in the ocean compared to the cash mountain they are throwing at Nuclear and fossil energy.

Sadly the fossil and nuclear establishment would rather bury these success stories, and their governmental partners are happy to do the burying.

#EnergyTransition #solar #nuclear #FossilFuels #SolarThermal #abpoli #cdnpoli

Jason Yip Oct 10, 2025

#China launches world’s first dual-tower ##SolarThermal power plant in the #Gobi Desert https://interestingengineering.com/energy/china-dual-tower-solar-plant

China's dual-tower solar-thermal plant launched in Gobi Desert

China has switched on its first dual-tower solar-thermal power station, using concentrated heat to generate power even after sunset.

Interesting Engineering

The_Sun Jul 9, 2025

Raygen to build Concentrated Photovoltaic plant with Thermal and Energy storage.

The Yadnarie project, potentially sized at 150 MW of solar capacity, 90 MW of thermal energy capacity and 720 MWh (8-hours) of energy storage, has recently won state planning approval, and has long been expected to the first big project to be built following the success of the technology at a pilot plant at Carwarp in Victoria.

#Raygen #Solor #SolarThermal #CPV #Energy
https://reneweconomy.com.au/coal-giant-agl-snaps-up-solar-thermal-project-in-landmark-deal-for-long-duration-storage-technology/

Coal giant snaps up solar thermal project in landmark deal for long duration storage technology

AGL snaps up a newly approved concentrated solar thermal project as it considers long duration storage options in first grid to reach 100 pct net renewables.

RenewEconomy

Eduardo Mora Mar 3, 2025

Concentrating #SolarHeat: New feasibility studies in 🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹

https://solarthermalworld.org/news/feasibility-studies-with-parabolic-trough-collector-fields-in-austria/

#SolarThermal #renewables #EnergyTransition #decarbonisation
@austriasolar.bsky.social

Feasibility studies with parabolic trough collector fields in Austria | Solarthermalworld

Between 2021 and 2024 the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund was active in supporting feasibility studies for large solar plants. The fund subsidized 15 studies regarding industrial solar heat plants […]

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