OpportunityTitle: Concentrating Solar Power: Efficiently Leveraging Equilibrium Mechanisms for Engineering New Thermochemical Storage (CSP: ELEMENTS)
AdditionalInformationOnEligibility: Please See the FOA, Section III - Eligibility Information, A. Eligible Applicants for the complete list of eligible applicants under this FOA.
Description: The purpose of this Amendment 002 is to: a. Clarify the units of measurement on pages 33 and 57 for proposed systems; and b. Clarify that the ?state of the art? comparisons should be made to other Thermochemical Energy Storage (TCES) systems, rather than two-tank molten salt storage systems. The Concentrating Solar Power: Efficiently Leveraging Equilibrium Mechanisms for Engineering New Thermochemical Storage (CSP: ELEMENTS) Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) that is being issued by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking applications that integrate Thermochemical Energy Storage (TCES) systems with a minimum of 6 hours of thermal storage to be used in &#191;1 Megawatt-electric (&#191;1 MWe) scale CSP electricity generation that have promise to achieve a cost target of &#191;$15 per kilowatt-hour-thermal (&#191;$15/kWhth) are the focus of this FOA. Successful projects will culminate in an on-sun demonstration of the thermochemical reactor along with reliable projections of the full scale performance of the integrated storage system through the utilization of validated performance models developed as part of the research and development effort.
GrantorContactEmailDescription: CSPELEMENTS@go.doe.gov
GrantorContactText: Clay L. Pfrangle&lt;br/&gt;CSPELEMENTS@go.doe.gov&lt;br/&gt;
CloseDateExplanation: Submission Deadline for Concept Paper: 5:00 PM ET, May 23, 2013  Submission Deadline for Full Applications: 5:00 PM ET, July 23 2013