HelioCon Heliostat Consortium. A DOE-sponsored multi-year, multi-institution research project studying a wide range of topics related heliostat technology.
SolTrace Ray-tracing software developed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to model concentrating solar power (CSP) systems and analyze their optical performance.
An open-source Python wrapper around the Solstice ray-tracing engine. Used by Ye Wang and her colleagues at Australian National University to perform heliostat field design, optical performance analysis, and optimization.
Solstice is an open-source ray-tracing program developed by Meso-star. It is a command-line tool written in C, with a minimal interface that gives users great flexibility to perform various optical ray-tracing analyses.
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