SunShot Newsletter: September 24, 2012: Storing solar with sulfur, playing it safe with Solar ABCs, and quantifying the soft-cost spectrum

This U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Newsletter is for our partners and industry stakeholders. It highlights the key activities, events, funding opportunities, and publications that the Solar Program has funded during the past quarter. We welcome your comments about the newsletter, so e-mail them to solar@ee.doe.gov.

A schematic diagram of a CSP system showing the combustion of sulfuric acid to create elemental sulfur, which can then be burned to create sulfur dioxide gas.

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Sulfur-based thermal energy storage can compensate for diurnal and seasonal insolation fluctuations. Illustration from General Atomics

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