POWDER 2 POWER

MW-scale fluidized particle-driven CSP
prototype demonstration

About Powder2Power

POWEDR2POWER is a four-year EU-funded project aiming to demonstrate the operation of an original, dispatchable, cost-effective and more reliable particle-driven Concentrated Solar Power plant prototype applicable for power and industrial heat cogeneration at the MW-scale (TRL7).

Technology

Fluidized particle-driven
Concentrated Solar Power

Consortium

11 partners
6 contries

Duration

4 years

Start - End date

01/10/2023
30/09/2027

Budget

5 million €

Summary

The POWDER2POWER project is an innovative project designed to accelerate European green and digital transitions, aligning with the EU’s commitment to climate neutrality by 2050. Positioned within the Cluster 5 “Climate, Energy and Mobility” of the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2021 – 2022, POWDER2POWER innovates a sustainable dispatchable solar energy solution allowing to collect, store and convert solar energy into heat and electricity in a more efficient way than existing commercial technologies.

Benefiting from successful achievements of the previous fluidized particle related EU-funded projects (CSP2, FP7) and Horizon 2020 (Next-CSP, H2020) as well as POWDER2POWER’s consortium’s highly qualified expertise, POWDER2POWER aims to demonstrate the operation of the CSP fluidized particle-driven technology in operational environment (TRL7) and at MW-scale advancing the technology towards commercialization.

The complete particle-based CSP system will be tested at the research infrastructure Thémis solar power tower premises in Targasonne (France) using an existing hybrid gas turbine with pressurized air used as a working fluid and high temperature (750 °C) particles as heat-transfer fluid (HTF) and a medium for thermal energy storage. The project will further examine the complete pilot system and its components and study the supercritical CO₂ (sCO₂) Brayton conversion cycle to improve the overall sun-to-power process’s efficiency targeting the commercial-scale applications.

Partners

The POWDER2POWER project is led by PROMES-CNRS, Research laboratory belonging to National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), and brings together a consortium of 11 partners spanning 6 European countries. The partners constitute a complementary and well-balanced array of stakeholders, including 5 public research and higher education institutions, 3 industrial companies, and 3 SMEs. Through this collaborative effort, we aim to synergize our diverse expertise toward the successful achievement of project objective.

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