Concentrated solar power prepares its resurrection in Spain after seven years in fallow
Solar thermal was the emblem of the take-off of renewables in Andalusia and the great international commitment of companies such as Abengoa, Sener or TSK. The cut that the Government of Rajoy had to apply in the premiums of renewables in 20...
ACWA Power's Bokpoort Concentrated Solar Power plant breaks African record
ACWA Power, a leading developer, investor and operator of power generation and desalinated water plants worldwide, announced Wednesday that its South African Bokpoort CSP plant has become the first renewable facility in the continent to com...
In South Africa and Spain, Concentrated Solar Power is Meeting or Exceeding Projected Operation Targets
SolarPACES spoke with Nandu Bhula who has been with the team responsible for the success of ACWA Powers 50 MW Bokpoort trough Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant in South Africa since the start, first as CEO while the project was being bui...
Aalborg CSP Cuts Tubing Costs up to 42% with an Asymmetric Receiver
Engineers at Aalborg CSP have developed, designed and optimized an asymmetric solar receiver to pair with a new heliostat from the Spanish firm Tewer Engineering as part of the PHOTON project, which aims to reap more competitive configurati...
Protermosolar advocates thermal storage in molten salts of concentrated solar power
Gonzalo Martn, General Secretary of Protermosolar, will analyze what the role of concentrated solar power plants will be in energy storage within a decade at the I Energy Storage Congress (ALEN20). Currently, thermal storage in molten salts...
US DOE Announces Quarterfinalists in $9 Million Solar Desalination Prize
The American-Made Challenges: Solar Desalination Prize is a four-stage, $9 million prize competition, providing an additional $1 million in support, designed to accelerate the development of low-cost desalination systems that use solar-ther...
NREL and Acciona Solar Power Develop Technology To Reverse Costly Effects of Hydrogen Buildup in Concentrated Solar Powe
Integrated Hydrogen Sensor/Separation Module Provides Long-Term Boosts in Efficiency and Revenue in Solar Power Plants. NREL and Acciona Solar Power Develop Technology To Reverse Costly Effects of Hydrogen Buildup in Concentrating Solar Pow...
German heliostat tracker raises bar for Concentrated Solar Power tower accuracy
Tests of a new rapid heliostat calibration system show millimetres of error at the receiver and could be tested at commercial plants within a year, Gregor Bern, project manager at Fraunhofer ISE, told Reuters Events. A new heliostat alignme...
EU HiFlex project – Concentrated solar power for sustainable pasta
The production of delicious Italian pasta requires wheat, water and energy. Researchers from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) are now working on methods to power the production and drying process...
SUPCON SOLAR won the SolarPACES Technology Innovation Award 2020
On October 2, the 26th Solar Power Chemical Energy Systems Conference (SolarPACES 2020) closed online. Worldwide experts, scholars, and representatives of well-known enterprises, as well as passionate followers, exchanged ideas of frontier ...
Annual generation reaches 120GWh, Supcon Solar 50MW CSP plant reveals remarkable performance
On Sep. 29, 2020, Mr. Jianxiang Jin, the president and chief engineer of Supcon Solar announced the yearly electricity generation number of Supcons 50MW solar tower plant in Delingha through China Solar Thermal Alliance. From July 26, 2019 ...
Xavier Lara on How Spain's Q4 Auction Can Achieve the 5GW of Concentrated Solar Power it Wants
Spains National Energy and Climate Plan, the PNIEC (Plan Nacional de Industria, Energia y Clima) includes a desired 5 GW of Concentrated Solar Power added to its existing 2.3 GW, with 2.5 GW in a first tranche from 2021 to 2025 and a second...
Sener sells three Concentrated Solar Power plants in Seville and Cádiz to the Qualitas fund
Q-Energy, the energy investment vehicle of Qualitas Equity (former Fotowatio investor), has bought from Sener and Masdar -subsidiary of Mubadala- the Concentrated Solar Power Torresol Energy Investments S.A. (Torresol Energy), owner of thre...
HelioControl Project Completed: Determination and control of aim points for heliostat fields in operation
Among concentrated solar power plants, solar tower systems are considered to have the greatest potential in terms of efficiency and cost reduction. In particular, costs can be saved on mirrors (heliostats), which account for between 30 and ...
Protermosolar: Concentrated Solar Power generation accounted for 3.56% of total electricity production in Spain in Augus
Solar thermal energy in August reached 745 GWh, 5% more than the average of the last four years. Concentrated Solar Power energy in August has exceeded the average monthly electricity generation since 2015 by 5%, reaching 745 gigawatt hours...