U.S Solar Funding Notice For Small Innovative Solar PV & CSP Projects
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced the Small Innovative Projects (SIPS) in Solar 2022: Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power and Photovoltaics funding program, which will award up to $5 million...
Handan"Solar thermal +" Project Strives to Achieve Trial Operation before October 1, 2022
On February 15, Mr. Xu Kehua, Deputy Mayor of Handan Municipal City and the followers visited the construction site of the solar thermal + comprehensive development demonstration project to supervise the resumption of work after the Spring ...
China Solar Thermal Alliance received a letter of thanks from the New Energy and Renewable Energy Department of the Nati
Recently, the China Solar Thermal Alliance(CSTA) received a letter of thanks from the New Energy and Renewable Energy Department of the National Energy Administration(NEA). This is another affirmation of the work of the CSTA in 2021 by the ...
How resistant is the Concentrated Solar Power plant to wind, dust, sand, extreme temperature, and water shortage?
CSP needs high solar irradiation, which is often found in the desert areas, where the land is rarely used for other purposes. To evaluate how CSP technology could withstand different weather conditions there is no better place than Northwes...
A new concentrated solar power system could cut energy costs to 5 cents per kWh
Concentrated solar power (CPS) has the potential to lower the cost of renewable energy and provide highly available dispatchable energy at any time of the day. TheNational Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Department of Energy (DoE...
SUPCON SOLAR Delingha 50MW CSP Plant Operated Stably in the New Year
During the Beijing Winter Olympics and Chinese Spring Festival, Beijing showed its unique charm to the world with city decoration, including 3 iconic landscapes, 10 themed flower installations and 280,000 lanterns. Among them, the three ico...
NREL Results Support Cheap Long Duration Energy Storage in Hot Sand
There arent many novel clean energy technologies that could also directly remove fossil energy plants. The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has created one. Long duration storage at grid scale is crucial to meeting climate tar...
Heliogen Awarded Exclusive Right to Lease Brenda Solar Energy Zone for Green Hydrogen Production
Heliogen, a leading provider of AI-enabled concentrated solar power, today announced that the United States Bureau of Land Management has awarded the Company the exclusive right to lease land in the Brenda Solar Energy Zone (SEZ). Heliogen ...
South Africa's largest renewable energy project Redstone concentrated solar power (CSP) achieves first debt draw down
Commercial operation scheduled to start in Q4 2023; The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) acted as the Mandated Lead Arranger and Coordinating Bank, committing ZAR 2.306 billion to the transaction; The ZAR 11.6 billion Redstone concen...
Blue Book on China's Concentrating Solar Power Industry in 2021 Released
Recently, the Blue Book on Chinas Concentrating Solar Power Industry in 2021 was released, and the report was jointly drafted by the China Solar Thermal Alliance (CSTA), the Specialized Committee of Solar Thermal Power Generation of the Chi...
China's Big State-Owned Firms Begin New Concentrated Solar Power for 2024
China has announced plans to start and complete 11 Concentrated Solar Power projects with thermal energy storage by 2024. The selected projects, with backing by some of Chinas biggest energy giants, must now race to meet this very tight two...
S-CO₂ turbines could revolutionize concentrated solar power generation
Researchers at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in the USA have developed a new supercritical carbon dioxide (S-CO₂) gas turbine capable of generating concentrated solar energy (CSP). The project is part of the US Department of Ene...
The＂Olympic Rings＂ on top of the solar tower completed
On January 7, the hoisting construction of the five-ring structure, the monogram of the Yanqing Division of the Beijing Winter Olympics, was completed.The Olympic Rings made a stunning appearance on top of the solar tower. China Solar Therm...
Beijing TRX Solar completed nearly 10,000parabolic trough tube receivers delivery to Spain
Beijing TRX Solar Technology Co., LTD.won a batch of parabolic trough(PT) tube receivers orders from the owner of a commercial CSP station in Spain, and completed the delivery of all ordered products before the end of 2021. It is reported t...
NREL Launches New International Consortium To Advance High-Tech Mirrors Used in Solar Plants
The U.S. Department of Energys (DOEs) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), joined by our partners at Sandia National Laboratories and the Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute, announces the launch of the Heliostat Consortium ...