How Much Land Would Solar Thermochemistry Need to make All Our Aviation Fuel?
Researchers investigate the geographic regions with the best solar resource and the most competitive financingto supply carbon free aviation fuelIMAGE@USAF The latest figures for aviation fuel use per year show that the world used 300 megat...
A letter to overseas employees
Dear Shanghai Electric employees, The global spread of COVID-19 has posed a great challenge to public health security around the world, and has had a huge impact on production, demand, and supply. The number of confirmed cases in Europe and...
Experimental Study on Hybrid Organic Phase Change Materials Used for Solar Energy Storage
Abstract The solar energy utilization in built environment has been limited due to its low heat flux, uneven distribution in time and space and temporal difference in day and night. The phase change materials have been used to collect the f...
Dubai Concentrated Solar Power builders resist COVID-19 to resume major installs
Noor Energy 1 partners are mitigating logistics, cost and labor shortage challenges to keep the worlds largest Concentrated Solar Power project on schedule. On March 27, Shanghai Electric hoisted into place a 200-ton thermal oil overflow ta...
Coronavirus cuts Spanish power demand, Concentrated Solar Power share
Spanish power demand in March fell by 4.6% on a year ago to 20.9 TWh, as tightening coronavirus restrictions wiped out much of the countrys industrial demand, grid operator Red Electrica said in a statement. Adjusted for seasonal difference...
90MW CSP-PV hybrid solar power plant will be built in Thailand
On April 10th, CHINA GEZHOUBA GROUP INTERNATIONAL ENGINEERING CO.,LTD (CGGC INTERNATIONAL) and CPL signed an EPC contract agreement for the 90MW CSP-PV hybrid power plant project in Bangkok, Thailand. The contract value was US $ 500 million...
Experimental Study on Melting Process in an Industrial Level Molten Salt Tank
Abstract Thermal energy storage (TES) is an important part of concentrating solar power (CSP) plants. The primary advantage of TES in CSP plants is the ability to dispatch electrical output to match peak demand periods and reduce the leveli...
Raygen signs up global developer Photon, plans huge 1000 MWh solar storage project
Melbourne-based solar plus storage developer RayGen Resources says it has brought in international solar project developer Photon Energy as a minor equity partner, and has plans for a huge 100MW/1,000 MWh solar plus storage project. RayGen ...
California Looks for Long-Duration Renewable Energy Storage Contracts for 2026
An optimal power system portfolio for the US state of California that would drive the worlds fifth largest economy towards greenhouse gas reduction goals for 2030 and then to zero carbon by 2040, includes 1GW of long duration energy storage...
Australia funds feasibility study for hybrid Concentrated Solar Power-hydro plant
RayGen Resources has secured A$3 million from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to conduct a feasibility study for a pilot Concentrated Solar Power plant that uses water as storage medium. Located at Carwarp in north-west Victo...
Concentrated Solar Power+TES match a 100% clean grid
It is common wisdom in the climate and clean energy world that the electric grid will need new storage resources to cover the last mile to get to 100% carbon-free electricity. These must be flexible, reliable, dispatchable and durable over ...
Is a solar desalination breakthrough coming to the desert?
Desalination plants which convert seawater into drinking water and water for agriculture have been used since the 1950s in the Middle East and tropical regions of the world. While the technology has met urgent needs for clean water supplies...
China's Delingha solar tower plant beats six-month output targets
The 50 MW Delingha CSP tower plant in Qinghai Province has exceeded performance expectations for the first six months of commercial operations and recorded average output fulfilment rates above 100% since January, developer Supcon Solar sai...
Solar Jet Fuels Get Ready for Take-off
A Swiss startup is working on commercializing two routes to solar jet fuel with the help of ItalysEni, the 10th-largest oil company in the world. Synhelionplans to market aviation fuel in two stages; first, by 2022 to sell a solar jet fuel ...
Protermosolar, Luis Crespo retires and passes the baton to Gonzalo Martín
President of the European solar thermal association Estela until last year and of the Spanish Protermosolar since 2016, after serving eight years as the general secretary of this association, which brings together a hundred companies, Luis ...