Phase Change Salt Storage - Falling, falling... the cost of Solar Power Stations
Posted on 13 Aug 2009
Involvement with Solar Thermal electricity from the 1970s on. US$50 was the cost then, the reduction to $10 per watt came in the 80s. Then the goal was $2, and still is.
Anoop tells how his company Terrafore is using a US$1.8 million grant to pursue this target now!
Phase Change Solar Salt Storage will seriously change the economics of Solar Power at night or when clouds are over.
Beyond Zero interviews Anoop Mathur
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- Beyond Zero interviews Anoop Mathur of Terrafore


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