Sener Offers to Expand its Concentrated Solar Power in South Africa
Spanish-based technology and engineering company, Sener, together with its partners, has invested billions of rands in the Ilanga concentrated solar power 1 (CSP1) project,which provides solar-generated thermal electricity to around 100 000...
SDH system with parabolic troughs in Tibet
Tibets first solar district heating plant made up of parabolic trough collectors was put into operation in late October, confirmed Vicot Solar Technology, the turnkey solar field supplier based in Dezhou, China. The 20,000 m2 system supplie...
Sun could be Middle East’s biggest export by 2030, says Bill Gates-backed company founder
More than 1,600 companies contacted Heliogen since it unveiled its technology last month Heliogens concentrated solar power installation in Lancaster, California. Courtesy: Heliogen By the end of the next decade, the Middle Easts biggest ex...
Sener looks to expand generating capacity at concentrated solar power plant
Spanish-based technology and engineering company, Sener, together with its partners, has invested billions of rands in the Ilanga concentrated solar power 1 (CSP1) project,which provides solar-generated thermal electricity to around 100 000...
Enerray has inaugurated the Concentrated Solar Power CSP-ORC PLUS in Morocco
Enerray has inaugurated the solar thermodynamic plant of the Green Energy Park in Ben Guerir, Morocco. The ORC-PLUS project, born on 01/06/2015, aims at developing an innovative Thermal Energy Storage system (TES) which is optimised for CSP...
Copec inks PPA with Cerro Dominador Concentrated Solar Power plant
Copec has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) to secure electricity from the 210-MW Cerro Dominador combined photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in Chiles Atacama desert. The PPA enters into force in July 2020 and...
Shanghai Electric building world’s largest solar plant in Dubai
Beyond its operations in China, Shanghai Electric Group (601727) (2727) has long had established projects overseas, especially in the Middle East. The company has embarked on numerous projects in the solar power, gas-powered electricity, en...
EBRD grants €45 million loan for Noor Midelt I concentrated solar power project
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has granted a 45 million loan for the construction of the Noor Midelt I hybrid concentrated solar power + PV plant. It will have a capacity of 800 MW. New funds have recently been ...
Refractaris seeks in Africa and Asia to expand its international sales of shields for Concentrated Solar Power
The company Refractaris, located in the Montemayor municipality of Cordoba (Spain) and specialized in the design, production and installation of solutions aimed at protecting and isolating equipment of high temperatures above 500 degrees, h...
Concentrated Solar Power electricity: an essential building block for the energy transition
Abengoa highlights the key role of hybridization for the energy transition during its participation in COP25. Miguel Mndez Trigo, director of Solar Technology of the company, described it as a key solution for decarbonization during his par...
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 ...