SOLARX addresses the shortcomings of current energy infrastructures that are not designed to handle large shares of intermittent renewable energy sources. SOLARX integrates three high concentration solar technologies and AI-based smart resource management into a dispatchable Renewable Energy System (RES). To this end, SOLARX will develop 3 Key Technological Elements: (1) a smart solar resource management algorithm which aims to meet local instantaneous energy demands, (2) a high efficiency Concentrating Photovoltaic (CPV) receiver, (3) a carbon negative bi-energy H2 receiver. The main goal of the project is to demonstrate, at the laboratory scale, the technical, economic, and social value of the synergetic efficient production of heat, electricity and H2 from solar resource in a single facility, considering energy demands and market prices for a wide range of locations and application scenarios. Global assessment will demonstrate the role of the SOLARX solution as a game-changing RES that will facilitate the creation of a future carbon-negative energy system. CYI mainly focuses on the first key technological element as described above, and on developing at a TRL 4, the already CYI patented, airborne CST reflector and radiant field characterization systems, and integrating the latter systems into the smart solar resource management that is under development within the SolarX project. This will give extra flexibility to the smart solar resource management system since it will be providing real-time, non-intrusive data on the status of the heliostat field into the smart solar resource management algorithm. This will also increase the resilience of the system, by providing also alternative means of estimating the flux distribution on the receivers.
Team:
Kypros Milidonis
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Funding:
EU Horizon Europe programme
Partners:
• Universidad De Lleida
• Acciona Industrial SA
• Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
• Accelopment Schweiz AG
• Fraunhofer
• Hygear Technology and Services
