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Opportunities for Solar for Industrial Process Heat in the United States

Published by National Renewable Energy Laboratory | Department of Energy | Metadata Last Checked: January 27, 2026 | Last Modified: 2025-01-21T22:39:47Z
Figure data for report on opportunities for solar technologies to provide industrial process heat in the United States (NREL/TP-6A20-77760).

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  • Average frequency (in percentage of the year) that solar heat fully meets demand some stuff

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  • Heat maps of the two PTC cases showing the solar fraction for hour of the day and the month of year for Polk County, Iowa

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  • Heat maps of the two PTC cases showing the solar fraction for hour of the day and the month of year for Polk County, Iowa

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  • Annual solar heat potential (TBtu) for high-heat-demand subsectors

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  • Total fuels displaced for each solar technology package (in TBtu/year)

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  • Monthly fuel displaced by solar thermal technologies (in TBtu/month)

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  • Monthly fuel displaced by solar thermal technologies (in TBtu/month)

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  • Monthly fuel displaced by solar thermal technologies (in TBtu/month)

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  • Monthly fuel displaced by solar thermal technologies (in TBtu/month)

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  • Monthly fuel displaced by electrotechnologies (in TBtu/month)

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  • Monthly fuel displaced by electrotechnologies (in TBtu/month)

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  • Monthly fuel displaced by electrotechnologies (in TBtu/month)

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  • Monthly fuel displaced by electrotechnologies (in TBtu/month)

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  • Monthly fuel displaced by electrotechnologies (in TBtu/month)

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  • County-level maps showing land use as a percentage of the available land for the solar thermal technologies, summer sizing

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  • County-level maps showing land use as a percentage of available land for electrotechnologies, summer sizing

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  • Land use as a percentage of available land, average values and total load in megawatts

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  • Heat map of the difference between the minimum required process temperature in Bee County in Texas (36°C) and the temperature of hot water supplied by an FPC system

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  • Process heat demands for each solar technology package by industrial subsector

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  • Comparison of SIPH technologies sized to summer peak IPH demand

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  • Total annual solar heat potential (TBtu)

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  • County-level summary of process heat demands, solar resources (DNI and GHI) and percentage of year process heat demands are met by each solar technology. Corresponds to Figure 14 and Figure 15.

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identifier https://data.openei.org/submissions/8215
issued 2020-12-24T13:03:46Z
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                                            [
  "PV",
  "concentrating solar power",
  "heat pumps",
  "solar industrial process heat",
  "technical potential"
]
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license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
modified 2025-01-21T22:39:47Z
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projectTitle Solar For Industrial Process Heat
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title Opportunities for Solar for Industrial Process Heat in the United States

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