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LFT20

Sustainable heat generation for industries using concentrating solar collectors, substituting fossil fuels

March 2021
January 2025

LFT20

Sustainable heat generation for industries using concentrating solar collectors, substituting fossil fuels

  • World Alliance Member
  • Featured Solution
  • Labelled Solution
Label Date January 28, 2025
By SOLATOM
From Spain
Maturity stage TRL 9 / CRI 2 - Commercial Trial Small Scale

Solatom produces renewable energy heat by concentrating solar energy with mirrors that track the sun. This energy is concentrated into a receiver - an isolated vacuum tube absorber - where steam, hot oil or hot air is produced. Thanks to this heat, Solatom not only manages to reduce the industry’s CO2 emissions, but it also manages to reduce the client’s energy bill. This reduction in price is possible thanks to its innovative design, which allows the solar energy to be converted directly into heat, rather than producing electricity first, to later produce heat. Another big advantage of Solatom’s product is the high temperature (up to 350 ºC) it can reach. Many industries demand high temperatures, and conventional solar flat plate collectors are just not able to generate heat at temperatures over 120 ºC. This is because flat plat collectors do not track the sun to concentrate the energy, which limits its use to households and not solving the industries problem, like Solatom does.

The Environmental Benefits

  • Every module of Solatom, which has a surface of 36 m2, produces over 20 MWh of energy per year, thereby saving the consumption of 2.000 liters of diesel per year for the client
  • Solatom has already 9 installed projects in Spain, which are succesfully producing energy and saving in fossil fuel costs
  • Savings of 30% to 70% of your current use of fossil fuels with its associated CO2, NOx and SO3 emissions
  • Capacity for local production, lowering emissions associated to transport and fostering local jobs

The Financial Benefits

  • Solatom's solution has a payback period which is under 5 years in regions with good solar irradiation and where there is no access to the pipeline of natural gas
  • Savings of 30% to 70% in annual costs of fossil fuels, which tranlates into ~140 k€ of annual savings for every MW of solar power installed
  • Possibility to sell the solar energy produced at a cost per MW below the current cost of fuel being used and with no investment required (using and ESCO model)
  • Payback period of the investment between 3 to 7 years depending on the current cost of fuel and the solar resource

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Activity Region

  • Headquarters
  • Activity

Company Profile

SOLATOM

Solatom produces heat for the industries using concentrated solar energy, thereby substituting the use of fossil fuels

Headquarters 46022 Valencia, Spain
Type Startup or self-employed
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