Field
Energy
Horizon
σ Sigma · 2029–2035
Lead center
Energy & Fusion
Maturity
Developing — prototypes scaling toward deployment
Why it matters
By storing heat cheaply, it provides dispatchable solar electricity day and night and high-temperature heat for industry.
Where it stands
Utility-scale plants operate worldwide; competing with cheap photovoltaics plus batteries is the economic pressure.
How ASIZ approaches it
The discovery loop, applied.
Through the Energy & Fusion center, ASIZ aims the discovery loop at concentrated solar power: frontier models survey the literature and simulate the possibilities, rank the experiments most likely to resolve the open questions, and partner labs run the decisive ones — with results shared openly.