EnergyNest secures €110m investment from M&G-backed Infracapital
EnergyNest, the global market leader in Thermal Batteries, today announces it has signed an investment agreement with Infracapital, the infrastructure equity investment arm of the FTSE 100 listed MG plc. The agreement comprises a 110 millio...
Dubai bets on a future more 'solar' and low in carbon emissions
With the emergence of renewable technologies, many hope to reverse the impact of climate change, with initiatives such as the Mohammed BinRashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, located in the desert south of Dubai. It is the largest solar park in th...
100-Gigawatt-Hour Crushed-Rock Heat Storage for Concentrated Solar Power and Nuclear
A very large-scale long duration energy storage (LDES) idea from MIT envisages a 1 kilometer-long, 60 meter-wide lidded central storage container of rocks sunk 20 meters down into the ground about the size of 10 football fields if they were...
7MW solar heat plants will be a commodity in Europe in 5 to 10 years
Viessmann, a major German provider of climate solutions for living spaces, strengthened its project development team last year, hiringChristian Stadlerand four of his ex-colleagues in June 2020, after their former employer, Danish-based Arc...
Chile's Cerro Dominador Concentrated Solar Power plant synced with the grid
The 110-MW Cerro Dominador concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in Chile has been successfully synchronised with the Chilean SEN grid system. The solar thermal plant will inject electricity into the grid in stages over the coming months. Sy...
Mixed performance of world's largest flat plate producers in COVID year 2020
Source: solrico / data supplied by manufacturers in February/March 2021 Last years outbreak of Covid-19 around the globe reduced sales of most of the largest flat plate collector manufacturers not based in China. Only a small number of non-...
Stanwell joins $600m solar thermal plan for Mount Isa
Australias Queensland government-owned energy generator Stanwell will provide financial support to Vast Solars 50 megawatt hybrid solar thermal project to be developed in Mount Isa, Queensland at a cost of $600 million. Stanwell will provid...
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...