With an 18% drop in total installed costs (2019-2020), Concentrated Solar Power can help us achieve net-zero by 2050
The world is in a joint effort to achieve a net-zero economy by 2050. The ongoing energy transition has motivated the emergence of new technologies, which promises to cause even more transformation in the renewables market. We already know ...
Height optimization analysis of receiver tower of tower-type Concentrated Solar Power plant
Receiver tower is the main structure in the heat-collecting system of tower-type solar thermal power plant and the tallest structure in solar thermal power plants. The main difficulty in the construction of receiver tower is to control the ...
Storage Advance May Boost Concentrated Solar Power Potential
Engineers at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore., have identified a new approach for the storage of concentrated solar thermal energy, to reduce its cost and make it more practical for wider use. In the charging phase, heat from a CS...
Another 400 MW of Chinese Concentrated Solar Power Starts in Xinjiang Province
A groundbreaking ceremony for the Fukang Luneng 1GW Project was held in Fukang City, Xinjiang. Fukang Luneng 1GW Project is the leading project of Fukang City 100 GW PV Industrial Park, with total investment of about 6 billion RMB, consisti...
200 MW Concentrated Solar Power Included – Xinhua Hydropower 3.2 GW Project Filed
On July 4, the Development and Reform Commission of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region issued the list of the second batch of market-based grid-connected new energy projects 2022, including a total of 67 projects. According to the notice, the...
SDIC Ruoqiang 100 MW Concentrated Solar Power + 900 MW PV Project
SDIC Xinjiang New Energy Co. Ltd. issued the bidding announcement on land prequalification and site selection opinion technical services, survey and boundary definition technical services, and access system design technical services etc, fo...
Concentrated Solar Power Plant on Track for 2023 in South Africa
Awarded to ACWA Power and SolarReserve in 2015 under South Africas REIPPP programme bid window 3.5 which was specifically created for CSP projects the Redstone Concentrated Solar Power Project will produce 480,000MW of clean energy annually...
The World's Largest Solar (Thermal) Storage Demo Project Officially Launched in Xinjiang
On July 4, the Development and Reform Commission of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region issued the list of the second batch of market-based grid-connected new energy projects 2022, including a total of 67 projects. Among them, two new energy p...
100 MW Concentrated Solar Power Included，Fukang Luneng 1GW Project Started Construction
Fukang Luneng 1 GW Project is the leading project of Fukang City 100 GW PV Industrial Park, with total investment of about 6 billion RMB, consisting of 900 MW PV and 100 MW Concentrated Solar Power. Fukang Luneng 900 MW PV project is schedu...
Two PV+ Concentrated Solar Power Projects Started in Xinjiang
On July 9, PowerChina Xinjiang Ruida New Energy 100 MW Concentrated Solar Power + 900 MW PV project groundbreaking ceremony was held at 22 kilometers south of Yitumbulak town in Ruoqiang County. The project is located 18 km north of Yitumbu...
Vast Solar to grow Port Augusta Concentrated Solar Power to 150 MW at old SolarReserve site
When SolarReserve proposed a 150 MW tower Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) power plant for Port Augusta, the firm was fresh off completing Crescent Dunes, the worlds first attempt at utility scale tower CSP with storage. The startup was unabl...
Mr. Jianxiang Jin: The story behind the successful operation of SUPCON SOLAR Delingha 50MW Molten Salt Tower CSP Plant
nterview with Jin Jianxiang of Cosin Solar Recently, Cosin Solar Technology Co., Ltd. (Cosin Solar for short) announced that SUPCON SOLAR Delingha 50MW Molten Salt Tower CSP Plant has generated 146GWh electricity in the last 11 months, exce...
Concentrated Solar Power installed capacity grew just over five-fold between 2010 and 2020
Cumulative CSP installed capacity grew just over five-fold, globally, between 2010 and 2020, reaching around 6.5 gigawatts (GW) by the end of that period. Breaking the last five years of this down, after modest activity in 2016 and 2017 wit...
Concentrated solar power plant on track for 2023 commissioning in South Africa
One of the first project-financed Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) with molten salt central receiver projects in the world is on track for a late 2023 commissioning. Awarded to ACWA Power and SolarReserve in 2015 under South Africas REIPPP pr...
Qinghai Supcon Solar Delingha 50MW CSP plant achieved the annual design value in 11 months
At 19:18 of July 5, 2022, Qinghai Supcon Solar Delingha 50MW CSP plant had had generated 755,200kWh on that day (as of the press time, the power station was still running at full load). From August 5 of 2021to July 5, 2022, the real generat...