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...
Switzerland’s International Airport to Buy Synhelion’s First Solar Fuel
Flughafen Zrich AG aims to cut its CO2 emissions to zero net by 2050. The coronavirus has done nothing to change this plan. That is why the company has just entered into a partnership with the young high-tech enterprise Synhelion SA to supp...
The Concentrated Solar Thermal Industry supports the Green Recovery Plan through a truly smart sector integration
ESTELA welcomes and supports the endeavour of the European Commission bringing together the Green Deal and the Recovery Plan. This initiative of the Commission constitutes a strong action framework impacting the depth and pace of the decarb...
New Concentrated Solar Power report offers learnings from Crescent Dunes flop
A new global Concentrated Solar Power report will help developers understand key failings at Crescent Dunes and other early plants and improve investor confidence in future projects, the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) told N...
Absolicon gets grant for solar thermal plant in Sweden
The Swedish Energy Agency has made a EUR-800,000 (USD 877,000) grant to Absolicon Solar Collector AB for what the latter says will be Europes largest solar thermal field for district heating with small concentrated parabolic troughs. Absoli...
Concentrated Solar Power in Cyprus
Homeowners and businesses in Cyprus showed growing interest in solar thermal technology over the last two years. Collector area additions on the island increased by 5 % in 2018 and by 24 % in 2019 after a small decline in 2017. The growth i...
Cerro Dominador concentrated solar power plant installs its solar receiver
This is one of the latest milestones in the construction of the solar thermal project being carried out by Acciona and Abengoa in the Atacama desert (Chile) and owned by EIG Global Energy Partners. Weighing 2,300 tons, this highly complex p...
IIT-M researchers develop low cost Solar Parabolic Trough Collector for industrial applications
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) have developed a low cost Solar Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC) system for concentrating solar energy with industrial applications in areas such as desalination, space heatin...