Xiaoxin Zhou Elected as new international member to the National Academy of Engineering
Washington D.C., February 09, 2021 The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 106 new members and 23 international members, announced NAE President John L. Anderson today. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,355 and the nu...
European Solar Thermal Electricity Association, ESTELA, welcomes the long-awaited auction for renewable energy for the p
As expected, the total volume of 3 GW to be awarded in this first auction in Spain is split into 1 GW of wind power and 2 GW of photovoltaic (PV). As this very first auction is a non-specific tender, neither storage, manageability of delive...
SUPCON SOLAR Delingha 50MW Molten Salt Tower Concentrated Solar Power Plant Passed the Technical Assessment of Fichtner
Recently, Delingha 50MW Molten Salt Tower CSP Plant, constructed by Zhejiang SUPCON SOLAR Technology Co., Ltd. (SUPCON SOLAR), has passed complete technical assessment of Fichtner, a German independent engineering consultancy company. In th...
Azelio Installation at Khalifa University's Masdar Institute Solar Platform to Demonstrate Renewable Energy 24/7
Using a recycled aluminium alloy to store the heat from the days sunshine allows the MISP to produce electricity 24/7 The world is moving continuously towards using sources of energy that are more sustainable than the fossil fuels on which ...
PRESS RELEASE – Solar Heat European Market 2019 Report: Continuous growth for over 4 decades
Brussels, 21 December 2020 The European solar heat market has grown by 2.5% in installed capacity in 2019 and 3.4% on year-on-year sales. The sector has been growing its cumulative capacity continuously for over 4 decades and there are over...
Ranga Pitchumani Appointed New Editor of Solar Energy
After nearly two decades of outstanding leadership ofSolar Energyas Editor-in-Chief, Prof Yogi Goswami (University of South Florida, Tampa, United States) has retired as the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal. Ranga Pitchumani Yogi Goswami The...
Cubico expands Spanish Concentrated Solar Power portfolio to 250MW
Cubico Sustainable Investments has agreed to buy 100 MW of Spanish CSP power capacity and 174 MW of PV capacity from Grupo T-Solar, the company announced in a statement. Cubico will acquire the 50 MW Moron and Olivenza CSP plants, expanding...
Botswana to build 200 MW of Concentrated Solar Power
Botswana plans to build 200 MW of CSP capacity by 2026, according to a new integrated resource plan (IRP) published by the government on December 15. The procurement process will start this year, it said. Botswana is a land-locked sub-Sahar...
US Concentrated Solar Power valve leap boosts prospects for hotter plants
The new flow control valves will improve heat distribution and minimise risks at critical joints, allowing higher CSP temperatures and greater energy conversion efficiency, research group Sandia National Laboratories told Reuters Events. Ne...
Why Do Solar Farms Kill Birds? Call in the AI Bird Watcher
Solar facilities kill tens of thousands of birds every year, and no one is quite sure why. An artificial-intelligence-powered birder is on the case. PHOTOGRAPH: EDWIN REMSBERG/GETTY IMAGES AMERICAS SOLAR FARMShave a bird problem. Utility co...
Low-cost liquid metal coating for concentrated solar power (CSP) polymeric mirrors
A University ofHawaiʻiat Mānoa startup is shining in a national competition designed to energize U.S. solar manufacturing. HawaiʻiInnovation Lab is among 20 teams representing 12 states that have been selected to advance into the semifin...
HelioHeat Commercializes DLR's 1000°C Solar Receiver CentRec®
At the 2020 SolarPACES Conference in October , Wei Wu introduced her startup HelioHeat that will be first to commercialize the CentRec very high temperature particle receiver developed at the German solar research lab at DLR , able to attai...
Carl Sberg Aims To Clean Water From Solar
Carlsberg Group is deploying a novel solar technology to power a sustainable clean water initiative in Indias West Bengal. The innovative partnership will see a water-stressed town of 4,000 people provided with clean drinking water. Novel r...
DNV GL advises T-Solar Global Operating Assets to enable 1.4GW solar energy sale in Spain and Italy
DNV GL, the worlds largest resource of independent energy experts and certification body, carried out a vendor due diligence for T-Solar Global Operating Assets that was key for the company sale transaction. The review of the companys opera...
Should Australia invest in Concentrated Solar Power rather than gas power?
Recently NSW announced that a gas power plant would be classed as critical infrastructure to speed up the planning process. This follows the Morrison governments policy that gas power is needed to transition away from coal to renewables, bu...