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 ...
Xinjiang's first CSP plant enters a stable operation stage
Since the realization of 24-hour uninterrupted power generation on June 18，2021, as of December 28, Xinjiangs first 50MW concentrating solar power plant (CSP)has accumulated tens of millions of kilowatt-hours of power generation, marking ...
Rediscovering Concentrated Solar Power: story from China
Start of new series of articles with new data on CSP power plant. Recently some media, such as Energyskeptic, falsely accused CSP technology of being unreliable, full of glitches and having a low energy return. Their opinion refers to certa...
Could CSP supply Europe's power? (But seriously this time)
Have you ever heard of a concept called Desertec? Not many people have today. But back in the early 2000s this was a much-talked-about plan to bring plentiful clean energy from the Sahara Desert to power the whole of Europe. Desertec, origi...
Reflections on Spain’s upcoming 200 MW CSP auction
Concentrated solar power ( CSP ) watchers are keeping an eye on Spain as the country looks to auction a minimum of 200 MW of capacity before 2022. Sara Aagesen, Spains Secretary of State for Energy, confirmed the auction would go ahead befo...
China's first 5MW carbon dioxide cycle generator puts into operation
On December 8, the first large-scale (5MW) carbon dioxide (CO₂) cycle generator developed and built by Xian Thermal Power Research Institute (TPRI) of China Huaneng Group completed 72 hours of trial operationand was officially put into op...
Handan ＂Solar thermal + Cultural Tourism＂ Comprehensive Development Demonstration Project is stepping up construction
Recently, Hebei Handan Solar thermal + Cultural Tourism Comprehensive Development Demonstration Projectt Phase I, the first tender section of the Water World venue with steel structure buildings as the main building, and the Ice and Snow Wo...