The Concentrated Solar Power project and the new storage system
At the end of February, Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi outlined the companys long-term strategy for the next three decades, which set out how the business will become more sustainable and increase its focus on low carbon energy. The plan, which h...
Concentrating Solar Power Best Practices Report Is First of Its Kind
So, you want to build a concentrated solar power (CSP) plant. Have you developed a technical specification that clearly defines the key project requirements? Does your team have the relevant experience and knowledge to successfully deploy a...
Panda Green to develop 1 GW hybrid PV and concentrated solar power project in China
Panda Green Energy Group plans to develop a 1,000 MW hybrid project in China that combines solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal power generation with energy storage and hydrogen production. The company has entered into a memorandum of ...
Aalborg CSP acquires unique Pit Thermal Energy Storage (PTES) technology
Danish renewable and energy storage specialist, Aalborg CSP acquires all rights and patents for unique Pit Thermal Energy Storage (PTES) technology from Arcon-Sunmark A/S. A Pit Thermal Energy Storage (PTES) is basically a water reservoir u...
Cubico refinances 50 MW concentrated solar power plant in Spain
Cubico Sustainable Investments said today it has achieved financial close on the refinancing of a 50-MW concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in Spain. The renewables investor, which is backed by Ontario Teachers Pension Plan and PSP Investm...
Dubai installs world’s tallest concentrated solar power tower
Dubai saw the lifting and installation of the Molten Salt Receiver, MSR, on top of the worlds tallest solar power tower at 262.44 meters, at the largest Concentrated Solar Power project in the world. Worlds Tallest Solar Power Tower (Asharq...
Abengoa to install first retrofit Concentrated Solar Power storage pilot
Falling PV costs may have curbed Concentrated Solar Power growth, but they are also accelerating hybrid CSP-PV deployment. In Spain, CSP operators are designing new storage systems that can be retrofit to existing plants to provide dispatch...
Global Concentrated Solar Power costs dive as learnings kick in
Average CSP prices to fall by a half as Chile, Dubai projects near completion. The global average cost of new CSP projects is set to plummet in 2020 and 2021, based on auction and power purchase agreement (PPA) data, the International Renew...
Molten salt receiver installed at Mohammed bin Rashid Solar Concentrated Solar Power plant
TheMohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park on Wednesday witnessed the installation of theMolten Salt Receiver (MSR) on top of the worlds tallest solar power tower at 262.44 metres. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai ...
Irena: Concentrated Solar Power costs have fallen by 47%
Renewable electricity costs have fallen sharply over the past decade, driven by improving technologies, economies of scale, increasingly competitive supply chains and growing developer experience. Since 2010, utility-scale solar PV power ha...
Demand for electrical energy in Spain falls 13.1% in May
Wind energy represented 21.9% of the electricity demand in Spain in May, concentrated solar power 3.3% and photovoltaic energy 9, 3%. 52.5% of the monthly generation was from renewable sources and 70.8% were produced from technologies that ...
Thermal and economic evaluation of phase change material volume fraction for thermocline tank used in concentrating sola
Highlights The effect of PCM volume fraction for three-layers TES tank is investigated. A numerical model is used to define the temperature distribution of molten salt. The thermal/economic performance of the three-layers thermocline tank i...
Making Solar Hydrogen with a Side of Carbon Nanotubes
As detailed in the paper co-authored by IHI Corporation researcher Satoshi Seo ( Production of C2-olefins and Hydrogen from Methane Pyrolysis with Concentrated Solar Energy ) presented at the SolarPACES Conference in South Korea; this novel...
Solar Energy Center developed LCOE Map for installation of Concentrated Solar Power plants in Chile
Among other results, the study carried out by researchers at the Center for Solar Energy Technologies of Fraunhofer Chile, shows that the optimal location to install a Concentrated Solar Power tower plant, due to costs and solar potential, ...
FROM GREEN DEAL TO GREEN RECOVERY: A joint initiative of the EU solar industry
In early 2020, the proposal of the European Commission to launch a Green Deal set an ambitious double objective for the sake of European citizens wealth and health : increasing the European contribution to fight climate change while boostin...