ContourGlobal warns on profit
Wholesale power generation firm ContourGlobal said full year earnings would be modestly below expectations thanks to delays in closing out an acquisition in Mexico. The company reported adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation a...
A Novel CSP Heliostat Goes from Lab to Market in Just 5 Years
Stellio heliostat, photographed during a dust storm at the test facilities at PSA in Spain, DLR researchers Tim Schlichting, Kristina Blume and Marc Rger measured the Stellio optical efficiency using photogrammetry, deflectometry, modal ana...
1414 Degrees acquiring Aurora Project near Port Augusta
1.14D acquiring SolarReserve Australia II Pty Ltd 2.TESS-GRID to provide electricity firming services 3.Refocus to 400MW solar farm with progressive storage capacity to several thousand MWh 4.To be developed and financed in 14D subsidiary c...
Worm gear technology helps CSP plant stay locked on target
Solar power generation continues to increase, with forecasts from BloombergNEF (BNEF) calling for global solar generation to make up 22% of the worlds electricity by 2050, up from about 2% today. BNEF has said solar and wind will account fo...
The Cerro Dominador Concentrated Solar Power in Chile completes 85%
The Spanish companies Abengoa and Acciona have celebrated this week the manufacture and assembly of the last of the heliostats that form the solar field of Cerro Dominador: the first solar thermal plant in the tower of Latin America, owned ...
Chile Concentrated Solar Power developer predicts world’s lowest price in June
The Cerro Dominador group is working with strong construction partners on its Likana Concentrated Solar Power project to cut costs and beat gas plant prices, buoyed by progress at its first plant in Chile, Fernando Gonzalez, CEO of Cerro Do...
The solar thermal could fall to 45 euros/MWh in 2020 for some Concentrated Solar Power projects
Solar thermal or Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) is not just one more renewable. Its great asset is that it allows availability and dispatchability (ability to generate electricity depending on the need of the network) thanks to its thermal ...
Storage for advanced concentrated solar power (CSP) plants
Ellen B. Stechel, a professor of practice in the School of Molecular Sciences and co director of ASU LightWorks, received $3.3 million for a project to develop long term storage for advanced concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) plants. Y...
Can concentrated solar power act as energy storage? DOE wants to know more
The Department of Energy has issued a formal request for information on methods to allow concentrated solar power (CSP) to commercially deploy as cost-competitive energy storage by generating electricity through turbines running on supercri...
Cement production with Concentrated Solar Power
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates entered the world of cement this week with a public relations blitz for Heliogen. Hes one of the backers of a new Californian technology startup looking to use concentrated solar power (CSP) to power heavy in...
TerraForm Power to buy 100 MW of Spanish CSP
US renewable power producer TerraForm Power Inc (NASDAQ:TERP) has agreed to acquire two concentrated solar power (CSP) plants in Spain with a combined capacity of about 100 MW. A wholly-owned unit of TerraForm Power will pay a total equity ...
What Are Concentrated Solar Power Plants?
Solar thermal can be split into two different types; solar thermal energy systems (heating/hot water) and concentrated solar power plants (electricity production). This article looks at what concentrated solar power (CSP) actually is. If yo...
Fire at Cerro Dominador CSP project site is brought under control
Image of the construction of the solarthermal plant of Cerro Dominador. Source: Abengoa (www.abengoa.com) A fire that broke out Tuesday evening local time at the construction site of the 110-MW Cerro Dominador concentrated solar power (CSP)...
Why Smaller Might Be Better for Concentrated Solar Power
Changes to designs and operating models could help bring CSP back into the conversation. Despite its big potential, concentrated solar power remains one of the most expensive mainstream options for generating renewable power. Rather than tr...
Chinese consortium of CGGC and Supcon Solar signed the EPC contract of 50MW Minos CSP project in Greece
On Nov. 11, 2019, under the joint witness of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) signed a financing cooperation agreement for the Greek Minos 50MW concent...