Matthew Mullin and team Helios won the $25k EnergyTech UP bonus prize for their heliostat concept tech-to-market plan. The competition is sponsored and managed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Technology Transitions. The …
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Tyler Lee Recognized with FM Young Award
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at UW-Madison has recognized Tyler Lee with the F.M. Young award. This award is given every year to a graduating senior member of the Mechanical Engineering honor society Pi-Tau-Sigma to …
Former ESOL undergraduate researcher wins major recognition
Congratulations to Grace Stanke, winner of the 2023 Miss America competition! Grace worked with Dr. Wagner at ESOL and Dr. Ben Lindley, Director of the Reactor Technology Integration Group, to develop a multi-effect distillation model. …
Project Highlight: Combining nuclear and solar tech could make a powerful pair
ESOL Visits Solana, Largest Trough-Type Solar Plant
The Solana Solar Generating Station is the largest solar plant using parabolic trough technology in the world and is located near Gila Bend, AZ, just outside the Phoenix metro area. Dr. Wagner, Matt Tuman (graduate …
ESOL members attend SolarPACES 2022
Members of the ESOL were among the approximately 400 attendees at the SolarPACES 2022 conference in Albuquerque, NM. Dr. Wagner’s group submitted and presented four technical papers covering research advances in solar power plant simulation …
Illuminating Science podcast: Dr. Wagner talks CSP, energy storage, and the grid
Dr. Wagner was recently a guest on the Illuminating Science podcast, where he and host John Binkley talked in depth about concentrating solar power and the work ongoing at the ESOLab. The full episode is …
Welcoming two new graduate researchers!
We’re excited to welcome two graduate researchers to the ESOLab team starting Spring 2021! Brian White (left) graduated with his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UW-Madison in Fall 2020. His research involves design and performance …
ESOLab selected to lead DOE project on machine learning in CSP
The ESOLab has been named as one of several grant awardees under the Solar Energy Technologies Office of the Department of Energy – Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy program. As principal investigator, Dr. Wagner …