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...
EuroTrough Helped Cut Ramp-Up Time of China’s 100 MW Urat Concentrated Solar Power
Solar Field HTF Power Block Commissioning Since September to December 2020, commissioning of Urat Solar Field HTF Power block was performed, achieving 100% of steam turbine load while operating close to the winter solstice. The key factors ...
Pacific Green Solar Technologies (PGST) became member of China Solar Thermal Alliance (CSTA)
Recently, with the approval of chairman board of China Solar Thermal Alliance (CSTA), Pacific Green Solar Technologies Inc. (PGST) joined the China Solar Thermal Alliance as the first foreign enterprise. China Solar Thermal Alliance is the ...
China's largest molten salt solar thermal power station in Gobi Desert
With 12,000 mirrors, Chinas largest molten salt solar thermal power station in the Gobi Desert can reduce annual carbon dioxide emissions by 350,000 tonnes, equivalent to afforesting some 666.67 hectares of land Rainbow Llama： China fight...
ENGIE acquires 100 MW Concentrated Solar Power plant in South Africa
ENGIE(www.ENGIE-Africa.com) is pleased to announce that it has reached an agreement to acquire from Abengoa a 40% equity stake in Xina Solar One, a 100 MW Concentrated Solar plant, as well as 46% of the Operations Maintenance Company. The p...
Super Mirror Concentrated Solar Power Plant in Gansu, NW China
The molten-salt concentrated solar power plant is located in Dunhuang, northwest Chinas Gansu Province. The 100MW power plant, also called the super mirror power plant, works by using 12,000 mirrors that concentrate the sunlight onto a rece...