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 ...
Enesoon New Energy Co. Ltd Signs HSES Technical Services Cooperation Agreement with Fisonic Energy Crop.
Enesoon New Energy Co. Ltd and Fisonic Energy Crop. signed a HSES Technical Services Cooperation Agreement on February 28. Enesoon Holding Group Companys chief scientist Zhiyong Zeng and Fisonic Energys CEO Robert Kremer signed the agreemen...
Chile to build a 1,007MW CSP-PV integrated concentrated solar power project
This is the Seongnam project, by the company Andes Green Company S.A., which includes the construction of a photovoltaic plant and a solar power concentration plant, which will operate as a solar thermal storage source to provide energy bey...
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...