U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

SunShot Initiative

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).