Leveraging Solar Thermal Energy for Net-Zero Brewing

Palacio, Juan [Firestone Walker Inc., Paso Robles, CA (United States)]; Willaert, Peter [Firestone Walker Inc., Paso Robles, CA (United States)]

doi:10.2172/3394856

DOE OSTI · 3394856

Leveraging Solar Thermal Energy for Net-Zero Brewing

Palacio, Juan [Firestone Walker Inc., Paso Robles, CA (United States)]·Willaert, Peter [Firestone Walker Inc., Paso Robles, CA (United States)]

View original source ↗Read source document ↗Export metadata ↓

Abstract

Firestone Walker Brewing Company (FWBC), Paso Robles, California, owns a 1-million-barrel (BBL) brewery that requires up to 5 MW of process heat in form of saturated steam. Firestone Walker Brewery has set a goal of reducing carbon emissions by 50% for our 1 million BBL brewery.

Keep this discovery

BibTeX RIS

Palacio, Juan [Firestone Walker Inc., Paso Robles, CA (United States)], Willaert, Peter [Firestone Walker Inc., Paso Robles, CA (United States)]. 2026-07-31. Leveraging Solar Thermal Energy for Net-Zero Brewing. https://doi.org/10.2172/3394856

Cite the original work for its findings. Save a collection to share your selection of sources.

KEEP EXPLORING

Related discoveries

DOE OSTI2026

Regulatory Compliance and Best Practices for Power Purchase Agreements, Wheeling and Banking and Interconnections: Cooperative Research and Development Final Report, CRADA Number CRD-23-24436

Strategy support to determine the best approach to deploy solar technologies and commercially viable heat pump projects across their existing Rural Energy Partners solar project development support channel.

14 SOLAR ENERGY↗

DOE OSTI2026

Early results in the search for extreme coronal line emitters with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

Here, we present the results of our search through the early data release (EDR) of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) for extreme coronal line emitters (ECLEs) – a rare classification of galaxies displaying strong, high-ionization iron coronal emission lines within their spectra. With the requirement of a strong X-ray continuum to generate the coronal emission, ECLEs have been linked to both active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and tidal disruption events (TDEs). We focus our search on identifying TDE-linked ECLEs. We identify three such objects within the EDR sample, highlighting DESI’s effectiveness for discovering new nuclear transients, and determine a galaxy-normalized TDE-linked ECLE rate of RG=5 −3+5×10−6 galaxy−1 yr−1 at a median redshift of z=0.2 – broadly consistent with previous work. Additionally, we identify more than 200 AGNs displaying coronal emission lines, which serve as the primary astrophysical contaminants in searches for TDE-related events. We also include an outline of the custom python code developed for this search.

Clark, Peter [Southampton U.; Portsmouth U., ICG] ↗

DOE OSTI2026

Solar Training and Education Partnership for Underserved Populations

Solar Landscape’s STEP-UP program provided high quality solar installation training in partnership with community-based organizations (CBOs) in various regions within the U.S. Solar Landscape leveraged internal subject matter experts (SME’s) industry guidance and regional training assessments to provide customized training designed to support the growing solar and broader energy sector. Upon completion of the program, the team assisted trainees and nonprofit partners with connections to Solar Landscape contractors as well as local and National residential solar installation companies to facilitate placement into careers and apprenticeships.

14 SOLAR ENERGY↗