NREL finds up to six-cent per kilowatt-hour extra value with concentrated solar power
Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) projects would add additional value of 5 or 6 cents per kilowatt hour to utility-scale solar energy in California where 33 percent renewables will be mandated in six years, a new report by the Energy Departme...
Vast Solar says concentrated solar power plants can double up as syncons
Concentrated solar power technology company Vast Solar is looking to provide critical grid services even when it is not generating by using its turbines as synchronous condensers. Vast Solar says the adoption of Doosan koda Power turbines w...
How Particle Concentrated Solar Power can Hoist Tons of Hot Sand
A Sandia study has taken a first glance at costing out conveyance systems for a cutting edge form of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) tower technology using particles of a sand such as bauxite to transfer heat at up to 1500C. The study is one...
Economic tailwind for large flat plate collector producers globally
Consolidation among the global solar thermal industry continued in 2021. The 20 largest flat plate collector manufacturers listed in the ranking managed to increase production by, on average, 15 % last year. This is significantly higher tha...
CEMEX and Synhelion ace the First “Hot Solar” Cement Trial
By the middle of the 21st century the global energy system will hopefully be very different, with clean energy, clean fuels and clean heat supporting a highly decarbonized future. It will require so many changes in how we have done these th...
Already in 2013 Industrial Solar installed a Fresnel collector string for the solar test facilities of QEERI with the pu
Clean Industry Solutions Holding Europe ABs subsidiary Industrial Solar completed the commissioning of a solar thermally driven Organic Rankine Cycle Turbine in Doha, Qatar. The showcase project is an upgrade for a Fresnel Collector built i...
"100MW Tower Concentrated Solar Power + 600MW PV" Project site leveling works officially started
On March 25, Jinta ZhongGuang Solar100MWTowerCSP+ 600MW PV projectsite leveling worksstarted,whichmarkedthe full-scale construction phaseof the project. The preliminary development and construction of the project is progressing smoothly. In...
The first meeting of the international working group of IEC standard ‘Technology specification for solar field control .
On March 23, the first meeting of the international working group of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standard Technology specification for solar field control system of solar tower power plant (PT62862-4-2) led by China ...
Concentrated Solar Power reinforces position in China's desert
Several recent tenders have reinforced the relevance of concentrated solar power (CSP) as dispatchable green energy in Chinas hybrid wind-solar-storage base projects. The common pattern is a hybrid complex of 1 GW, with 100 MW of CSP presen...
Heliogen lines up Woodside for Australian concentrated-solar-power push
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) Bill Gates-backed Heliogen has secured funding from top Australian oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum for a full-scale trial of its concentrated-solar-power (CSP) technology ahead of a planned push in...
China's Concentrated Solar Power at Hami Expected to be 250 MW by 2025
New energy installed capacity, accounting for 70.2% of total installed capacity, will comprise 34 GW, with wind power comprising 27 GW, photovoltaic 6.5 GW, and Concentrated Solar Power 250 MW. According to the news from the Hami Financial ...
Policy supports gains for the Chinese solar thermal industry
The Chinese solar thermal industry has ended its downslide. With 18.9 GWthin 2021, the manufacturers produced the same amount of solar thermal capacity as in the previous year. The Chinese Solar Thermal Industry Status Report 2021 assessed ...
China breaks ground on major Concentrated Solar Power project
China General Nuclear Power Corp began constructing its 2 million kilowatt solar thermal storage integrated project on Wednesday in Delingha, Qinghai province. It is to date the Concentrated Solar Power storage integrated project with the h...
Optimizing Photovoltaic plant returns by adding Concentrated Solar Power
Photovoltaic (PV) solar power is undoubtedly one of the marvels of modern energy generation. Crystalline solar PV panels have become synonymous with clean energy around the world, from the rooftops of Germany to the massive solar farms of t...
CESP switches on pilot Concentrated Solar Power plant in Brazil
Brazilian utility Companhia Energetica de Sao Paulo, better known as CESP, has commenced the operation of a 500-kW concentrated solar power (CSP) plant, the countrys first of its kind. The pilot plant required an investment of BRL 57 millio...