CX-100336 Categorical Exclusion Determination

Advanced Energy Tower, High Efficiency Receiver (AETHER) Award Number: DE-EE0007115 CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6, B5.17 Solar Energy Technologies Office Date: 08/17/2015 Location(s): CO Office(s): Golden Field Office

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August 17, 2015
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Advanced Energy Tower, High Efficiency Receiver (AETHER)
Award Number: DE-EE0007115
CX(s) Applied: A9, B3.6, B5.17
Solar Energy Technologies Office
Date:  08/17/2015
Location(s): CO
Office(s): Golden Field Office

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is proposing to provide federal funding to Abengoa Solar LLC to develop the research and development pathway for high-temperature particle receivers, particle thermal energy storage system, an air-to-particle, direct-contact heat exchanger, and the integration of the technology with a standard, high-efficiency, air-and-stream, combined-cycle power block.