30% of US energy use is thermal; however, no competitive, renewable option exist at the distributed scale. Federal, state and local mandates are pushing Zero Net Energy buildings - which will soon include thermal loads.
SCT provides an integrated solar electric + industrial process heat thermal solution which is cost competitive with fossil fuel combustion, but without associated CO2 emissions. The hybrid system uses high efficiency IR-transparent photovoltaics for electrical generation and delivers thermal energy at temperatures up to 250 C.
