Construction starts on biggest CSP plant in China
A 50MW concentrated solar thermal power plant built by Supcon solar in Delingha city of Qinghai Province On March, 2021, construction of a 135-megawatt solar thermal power generation (CSP) project has begun in Delingha city of Qinghai Provi...
Cubico makes 100 MW concentrated solar power acquisition
Cubico Sustainable Investments has completed the acquisition of Grupo T-Solar, a 274MW solar platform with assets across Spain and Italy, from I Squared Capital. Cubico has also acquired the minority shareholding of KKR in Grupo T-Solars Sp...
U.S. pledges to slash solar energy costs by 60% in a decade
The Biden administration on Thursday set a goal to cut the cost of solar energy by 60% over the next decade as part of an ambitious plan to decarbonize the United States power sector by 2035. The U.S. Department of Energy said the goal acce...
Sandia Labs to build solar power testing center in New Mexico
Sandia National Laboratories has been awarded a $25 million contract to build, test and operate a new solar power test facility on its campus in New Mexico. Using a concentrated beam of sunlight to heat up sand-like particles, lab officials...
Drone company ventures into niche concentrated solar power market
Multinational drone services group Delta Drone International is venturing into drone inspections on concentrated solar power (CSP) thermal systems which is highly niche, says Delta Drone South Africa group sales and marketing headCamron Pfa...
Heliogen's High-Temperature Concentrated Solar Power Technology To Provide Carbon-Free Energy To Rio Tinto's Boron
International mining and metals company Rio Tinto and renewable energy technology company Heliogen today announced an agreement to explore the deployment of Heliogens breakthrough solar technology at Rio Tintos borates mine in Boron, Califo...
Stanwell signs up to Vast Solar's Mt Isa Concentrated Solar Power project
A novel plan for a 50 megawatt hybrid Concentrated Solar Power project in Mount Isa has got financial backing from Queensland government-owned energy giant Stanwell Energy. The $600 million project, proposed last year by thermal solar speci...
An unprecedented project developed by FURNAS will allow the generation of electric energy from a heliotérmic solar syste
FURNAS is developing, at its Technological Center for Civil Engineering, in Aparecida de Goinia, Gois, an unprecedented study in Brazil for the generation of electric energy from a heliotrmic solar system. The initiative is part of a Resear...
Cerro Dominador Concentrated Solar Power plant advances in tests of pumping molten salts towards the receiver
The Cerro Dominador project has successfully carried out the molten salt pumping tests towards the receiver, being one of the latest milestones of this project that prepares its interconnection to the National Electric System, since it is t...
Rush on industrial solar heat in Germany
In Germany, demand for high-temperature solar process heat is growing rapidly. In the past months, Soliterm, a western German provider of turnkey solar process heat (SHIP) solutions, has conducted an ever-greater number of prefeasibility st...
Concentrated Solar Power build pipeline must hit "GWs" to fend off PV menace
A lack of supportive tenders is endangering the Concentrated Solar Power industrys quest for lower costs and its leading position in overnight renewable power, a team of researchers told Reuters Events. As PV and battery costs continue to f...
Long Duration Energy Storage gets New R&D Lab in Biden’s DOE
A US$75 million national research and development (RD) facility for energy storage is expected to be up and running by 2025, the US Department of Energy (DOE) said yesterday. Called the Grid Storage Launchpad (GSL), 30 separate research lab...
Hybrid Concentrated Solar Power – PV offers lowest cost for Chile
A hybrid Concentrated Solar Power-PV plant with 13 hours of storage is the lowest cost power generation option for low-carbon baseload power in Chile, researchers at the Fraunhofer Chile Research Foundation said in a new report. The researc...
Biden administration reopens DOE loan program
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has reopened its Loan Programs Office for innovative technologies, energy secretary Jennifer Granholm announced in a speech March 3. Were ready to invest in advanced vehicles, carbon capture, advanced rea...
Could a Perovskite make Cheaper Solar Hydrogen?
A perovskite may be more cost-effective than ceria for solar-driven thermochemical hydrogen production , a new paper suggests. One perovskite formulation that works at a slightly lower temperature than ceria is explored by Xin Qian in the p...