Heliogen Announces Suspension of NYSE Listing Status
Heliogen, a leading provider of AI-enabled concentrating solar energy technology, today announced it has received notice that the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has determined to suspend trading of and commence proceedings to delist shares ...
International Conference on Renewable Energy Heating 2023 Successfully Held in Xiong’an New Area
From November 11 to 12, 2023, the International Conference on Renewable Energy Heating 2023 (the Conference) was held under the theme of marching towards a new era of heating and adding new impetus to green development at Wyndham XiongAn in...
New Innovations in Concentrated Solar Power for Solar Fuel Production
Concentrating solar power (CSP) is emerging as a promising technology in the solar fuels field, offering a potential solution to produce fuel without relying on fossil energy. Unlike conventional solar panels, concentrating systems are larg...
Largest solar industrial heat plant in Germany heats gas
Mid-November was a turbulent week for the heat transition in Germany. On 21 November, one of the largest solar process heat plants in Germany went into operation a 1.5 MW vacuum tube collector field for a gas pressure regulating system. In ...
Concentrated Solar Power desalination siting tool demonstrated in Australia
A team of Australian researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has combined three tools to assess the economic viability of a hybrid Concentrated Solar Power and desalination plant applicable for any region worldwide. The inte...
The First Set of Heliostat Was Installed: the CTCG Qinghai Qingyu DC 100MW CSP Project Is on the Fast Track
On October 17, the first set of heliostatsfor our CTCG Qinghai Qingyu DC 100MW CSP Project(the Project)was successfully assembled and installed on site, marking full commencement of the heliostatfield construction. As a Project equipped wit...
Power Generation of SUPCON SOLAR Delingha 50 MW Molten Salt Tower Concentrated Solar Power Plant Break the Record Again
As of 24:00 on October 31, the actual power generation of the SUPCON SOLAR Delingha 50MW Molten Salt Tower Concentrated Solar Power Plant has reached 17.42GWh for this month, and its cumulative power generation in the first ten months of 20...
Xinjiang Turpan Concentrated Solar Power Project Starts Heliostat Assembly
On October 20, the first set of heliostats for ENERGYCHINAXinjiang Turpan Concentrated Solar Power + PV Integration Project 100 MW CT CSP Project (the Project), being constructed by Cosin Solar as a member of the EPC consortium, was success...
SwRI, GTI Energy, GE celebrate mechanical completion of $155 million supercritical CO2 pilot plant
October 27, 2023Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), GTI Energy, GE Vernova (GE) and the U.S. Department of Energy celebrated the ribbon-cutting of the Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) Demo pilot plant today. The $155 mi...
Another Project Starts Heliostat Assembly
On October 20, the first set of heliostats for ENERGYCHINAXinjiang Turpan CSP + PV Integration Project100MW CT CSP Project (the Project), being constructed by Cosin Solaras a member of the EPC consortium,was successfully assembled and rolle...
Australia’s science agency CSIRO reports breakthrough in Concentrated Solar Power energy storage
Australias science agency CSIRO announced that its Concentrated Solar Power research facility in Newcastle, New South Wales had a breakthrough as part of research investigating the potential of falling ceramic particles to capture and store...
EuroTrough chosen for China’s latest Concentrated Solar Power in Tibet
The EuroTrough technology, developed by sbp sonne , has been selected for Chinas newest Concentrated Solar Power plant in Tibet. sbp sonne will provide the technology and engineering service for this challenging site at an elevation of 4,50...
Fifty new concentrated solar power inventors take SFERA summer school
At the 4th SFERA-III Doctoral Colloquium and Summer School, around fifty young researchers from all over the world met in Cologne from 11 to 15 September 2023. Doctoral students from the Institute of Solar Research and the Institute of Futu...
Saudi factory to mass-produce Glasspoint’s solar steam technology
One of the earliest recognitions of GlassPoints innovation in concentrated solar thermal was the SolarPACES Technology Innovation Award 2016 for its innovative trough CST enclosed inside glasshouses for generating steam directly for EOR. No...
SolarPACES celebrates the lifetime achievements of Robert Pitz-Paal and Eduardo Zarza
The SolarPACES network, under the auspices of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has presented this years Lifetime Achievement Award to a duo: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Pitz-Paal from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Dr. Eduardo Zarza ...