SUPCON SOLAR released the latest six-month operation data of Delingha 50 MW Concentrated Solar Power plant
The monthly generation of SUPCON SOLAR Delingha 50MW Concentrated Solar Power Plant hit 13.0134GWh in March 2020 (Feb.26th to Mar.25th), with fulfillment rate of 100.31%, and 11.6352GWh has been delivered to the grid. According to the opera...
China, the world’s largest concentrated solar power plant overcoming coronavirus
While a growing number of countries around the world are closing their borders to prevent any further spreading of the coronavirus and COVID/19, China seems to have succeeded in turning the curve around. As a result, Aalborg CSP resumes wor...
Simulation Tool Detects Efficiencies of Solar Power Plants
Renewable energy has an important contribution to make in protecting the environment and climate. Solar power plants plays a particularly significant role here and has become more widespread in recent years due to photovoltaics. However, th...
World first “solar hydro” plant in Victoria gets backing from ARENA, AGL
A Victoria-made dispatchable concentrated solar and hydro storage technology is set to be tested at a pilot-scale in the states north west, with the backing of the federal governments Australian Renewable Energy Agency and in partnership wi...
Tough work to turn the bucket: Aalborg CSP's order book abounds again
Aalborg CSP got a 600 MW solar boiler order in Dubai and a new collaboration with Shanghai Electric Group Corporation in China at the beginning of 2019. It became the turning point for Aalborg CSP, which in 2019 has been able to reap the fr...
ARCI’s cost-effective technology can convert solar energy to industrial process heat
The receiver tube technology developed by the ARCI team efficiently absorbs solar radiation and converts it into heat for the targeted applications, specially in industries. Scientists from the International Advanced Research Centre for Pow...
Abengoa Concentrated Solar Power contract signals Spanish maintenance battle
Abengoas first full-scope third-party Concentrating Solar Power maintenance contract in Spain comes as new investors, ageing assets and potential new build place greater focus on operational efficiency, experts told New Energy Update. In Ja...
Online Conference April 1-2: World Bank MENA Concentrated Solar Power and Heat
ATA Insights invites you to attend theWorld Banks MENA CSP KIP capstone online conference: Concentrating Solar for Power and Heat(April 1-2, 2020) This final workshop of the World Banks Middle East North Africa Concentration Solar Power Kno...
SaltX's Chinese partner initiate the construction of a pilot plant
SaltX Technologys partner in China, Shuangliang Boiler Co. LTD (Shuangliang), moves into the next phase of the pilot plant project. As part of the development work, design parameters have been set and a ton of nanocoated salt has been order...
Prefabricated Fresnel collectors used in Spanish SHIP plants
Ecotherm, an Austrian provider of steam and heat transfer solutions, is now offering concentrating solar systems based on the Linear Fresnel collector technology that it acquired from its former business partner Fresnex. The latter had to g...
Developers and Utilities Mull Solar Storage for a 100% Clean Energy Southwest
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Ghenova and CAPSUN Technologies jointly developed SPIRE project, taking integrated PV & Concentrated Solar Power tec
Ghenova and CAPSUN Technologies have jointly developed the SPIRE project, a disruptive technology that integrates the best features of Photovoltaic Plants (PV) and Concentrated Solar Plants (CSPs). The concept is simple: by means of a selec...
Short- and long-term thermal energy storage in a residential setting, new blog by VITO
The energy system of the residential demonstrator in Oud-Heverlee is equipped with different types of hot-water vessels used for thermal energy storage. These storage units offer, combined with the solar collectors, the possibility to incre...
New Way to Dry Cool Concentrated Solar Power Plants – with Underground Air
This first concept entails 99 hectares of PVC tubes with a diameter of a half meter, sunk 4 meters below ground, with air pumped through them at 1.5 meters per second. The solar thermal plant used in the study covers an area of about 195 he...
Abu Dhabi Turns To Solar For Future Power Needs
The next four years will see Abu Dhabi scale up its aggregate renewable energy capacity with up to 9GW of baseload nuclear and solar energy, summing up capacity from concentrated solar power (CSP) and photovoltaic (PV) plants. Will this be ...