The particularly high concentration of sunlight available to dishes allows high temperature applications.  Temperatures well in excess of 1,200°C are possible, which allows dishes to drive chemical reactions not possible with other solar technologies.

Wizard Power research and development is focusing on matching Big Dish technology with suitable applications to generate hydrogen and liquid fuels for energy transportation.  Possibilities include integration of solar heat into traditional gasification or liquefaction processes, and transport fuel outputs include methanol, gasoline, DME, SNG, diesel and more.  High-temperature solar energy integration with these cycles would see about 30% of the energy content of the end product coming from the sun.  This means less carbonaceous material use and consequently lower greenhouse gas emissions thereby, providing a large value-add to carbon-based feedstocks like coal and a transition path to cleaner fuels.