Schott Solar selected as partner on solar power tube coatings

摘要

The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has selected Schott Solar, Inc. as a collaboration partner to develop an improved absorber coating for receivers. NREL and Schott Solar, Inc. signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to collaborate on this project, which is targeted towards parabolic trough Concentrated Solar Power plants (CSP). The new absorptive coating would be applied to the inner steel tube of parabolic trough receivers, which sit at the focal point of parabolic mirrors in utility-scale solar power plants. Advanced coatings are seen as a key element in creating efficiency improvements for solar power generation.