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 ...
DEWA opens R&D centre at Dubai concentrated solar power plant
The research and development (RD) centre of the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has been officially opened at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum solar plant in Dubai. Solar power, smart grid integration, energy efficiency and w...
A delegation from the Egyptian national energy agency visits one of Indertec’s concentrated solar power plants
On Tuesday, February 25, a delegation from the NREA (The Egyptian National Renewable Energy Agency) visited the inPOWER concentrating solar power plant that CSIN (the Indertec company that markets the Thermosolar energy modules) is building...
Using Concentrated Solar Power to convert seawater into drinking water
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...
Using CSP to convert seawater into drinking water
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...
Cerro Dominador, the first concentrated solar power tower plant in Latin America, raises its receiver at 220 meters high
This is one of the last milestones in the construction of the solar thermal project executed by Abengoa and Acciona in the Atacama Desert (Chile) and owned by EIG Global Energy Partners. Weighing 2,300 tons, this highly complex piece will c...