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 ...
Pushing the boundaries of Concentrated Solar power technology could revolutionise the way we store and use solar energy
Breakthrough solar thermal research is using ceramic particles that act like a battery, storing solar energy as heat. Concentrated solar thermal (CST) with ceramic particles offer a reliable, renewable power source that can be used even whe...
Heliogen Achieves Milestones for Gen3 Concentrated Solar Power Project
Heliogen, a leading AI-enabled concentrating solar energy technology provider, has reached two significant milestones in the development of its Capella Project. The Capella Project is the worlds first fully integrated Gen3 Concentrating Sol...
Black coating mimicking sea corals wins SolarPACES 2023 innovation award
An international team of engineers accepted the Technology Innovation Award at the 2023 Solar Power and Chemical Systems (SolarPACES) conference on 13 October. We spoke to Dr Juan Felipe Torres about how the structure of their new solar ene...
Another IEC International Standard to be Jointly Led by Cosin Solar was Officially Approved to Proceed
Recently,the IEC 62862-4-3 (Solar thermal electric plants - Part 4-3) Technical Requirements and Design Qualification of Heliostats for Solar Power Tower Plants jointly led by Cosin Solar and NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory) was ...
New plant desalts well water using the reverse osmosis process, powered by solar thermal energy
Tunisia is innovating in the field of desalination. Tunisian engineers have just inaugurated Desaltec-z1 at the Miladi organic oil mill in Zarzis, in the south-east of the country. The new plant desalts well water using the reverse osmosis ...
Chilean President to visit Cosin Solar Concentrated Solar Power project in China
The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, together with his entourage and a delegation of businessmen from the energy sector, will visit the Chinese Concentrated Solar Power plant with the highest production in the world, according to H2 News....
Concentrated Solar Power investment – now – could shave billions off energy transition bill
Australia could shave as much as $10 billion off the cost of the transition to a renewable grid by investing, now, in the development of very long duration energy storage technologies like concentrated solar thermal, a new report has claime...
Breakthrough Solar Thermal Research Uses Ceramic Particles to Store Concentrated Solar Power
Australia, despite its abundant solar energy resources, still heavily relies on fossil fuels for its electricity grid. However, a breakthrough in concentrated solar thermal (CST) research using ceramic particles could revolutionize renewabl...
Shouhang 100MW CSP plant reached a record high in September
According to the vice chairman member of China Solar Thermal Alliance (CSTA) - Shouhang Hi-Tech Energy Technology Co., LTD., in September 2023, Shouhang Dunhuang 100MW solar tower CSP plant created a record of 336 hours of continuous operat...
The lifting of steel structure of the main plant of the world’s highest altitude concentrated solar power plant project.
On the afternoon of September 21, with the lifting of the last trusses of steel roof, it marked the completion of the lifting of the steel structure of the main plant of Tibet Zabuye Integrated Energy EPC Project. In order to ensure the com...
Cosin Solar now supplies 1 GW of China’s tower Concentrated Solar Power
Recently, Cosin Solar Technology Co., Ltd. (Cosin Solar) and State Power Investment Shandong Electric Power Engineering Consulting Institute Co., Ltd. (SDEPCI)signed the contract for Solar Field , MSR Systems and MS Electric Heating System ...
Synhelion becomes part of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Innovators Community
Synhelion has joined the WEFs Global Innovators Community. The Global Innovators Community is an invitation-only group of the worlds most promising start-ups and scale-ups that are at the forefront of ethical technological and business mode...