Sahara sun could ensure cleaner future
Harnessing the powerful sunlight over the Sahara Desert could provide renewable energy that reduces carbon emissions and provides fresh economic value to the largely deserted area, analysts said. As global energy demand increases, scientist...
China beam-down Concentrated Solar Power pioneer predicts 30% cost reduction
The developer of the worlds first commercial beam-down Concentrated Solar Power plant predicts a four-fold hike in thermal efficiency for a larger 200 MW plant. As CSP developers seek new ways to cut costs, a new 50 MW beam-down tower plant...
Andalusia has 43% of Spain’s concentrated solar power and solar radiation 13% higher than average
Andalusia is the Spanish region with the greatest and best renewable resource, with 43% of the solar thermal megawatts (MW) installed in Spain; the first autonomous community in solar thermal power, surpassing the million square meters of s...
Logistics Firm Chooses Solar for Steam Washing at Port of Antwerp
The Port of Antwerp has inaugurated the first Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) in Europe as part of its efforts to make its operations more environmentally friendly. [Actually, there are many such projects in Europe: for example the many ci...
TESS technology for concentrated solar power plants
Technologies developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energys (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and partner organizations have won nine 2019 RD 100 awards. The awards program, sometimes called the Oscars of Innovation, honors revo...
AfDB and BRICs new development bank will jointly provide financing for African projects，Clean energy involved in the pr
The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the New Development Bank have signed an agreement to promote new impact projects to improve the lives of millions of Africans. Under the deal, the New Development Bank a multilateral development bank ...
Sodium-based Vast Solar Combines the Best of Trough & Tower CSP to Win our Innovation Award
At the 2019 SolarPACES Conference, Vast Solar took the SolarPACES Technical Innovation Award for their use of high temperature sodium-based HTF in tower CSP, presented in their paper: Vast Solar: improving performance and reducing cost and ...
EGYPT: SES partners with government on 250 MW concentrated solar project
Smart Engineering Solutions, a company specialising in renewable energy and energy efficiency, is currently working in partnership with the Egyptian government. The objective is to implement a project to build five concentrated solar power ...
Port of Antwerp installs Europe’s first industrial concentrated solar thermal plant
Port of Antwerp today announced the inauguration of the first Concentrated Solar Thermal Plant (CST) in European process industry that could generate eco-friendly heat from sunlight for Adpo Logistics in Beveren, Belgium. The plant was inst...
Egypt plans to establish $1.2bn CSP solar power plants with installed capacity of 250MW
Smart Engineering Solutions, in cooperation with the Ministry of Military Production, plans to launch concentrated solar power (CSP) plants and manufacture components of this system in Egypt with investments of $ 1.2bn. Osama Kamal, company...
Cerro Dominador CSP developer plans larger plants in Chile
The ground-breaking 110 MW Cerro Dominador CSP plant could start commissioning by end of 2019 and the fund-owned developer is studying larger projects at three other sites in northern Chile, Francisco Vizcaino, Project Director at Cerro Dom...
FRESNEX collectors installed at the HYBUILD Spanish demo site
At the HYBUILD Spanish demo site located in Almatret, solar collectors provided by FRESNEX have just been successfully installed. Local stakeholders, in particular from the town of Almatret and from University of Lleida, have been trained o...
Moroccan concentrated solar power plant hailed as shining example
Efforts by the North African country to tap into the potential offered by renewable energy should be replicated at EU level, according to the head of a successful Moroccan energy agency. So successful has the country been in meeting its ele...
CSIC Sunway to supply 5 cleaning vehicles to CPECC Hami 50MW Tower CSP project
On September 27, 2019, CSIC Sunway Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. (CSIC Sunway in short) officially received the Letter of Acceptance for supplying 5 cleaning vehicles to CPECC Hami 50MW Tower CSP project. The solar field of the project ad...
CPECC Hami 50MW Tower CSP project starts receiver hoisting
On October 5th, the first piece of receiver outer walls of CPECC Hami 50MW Tower CSP project was successfully hoisted in place, which lays the foundation for the next installation of receiver pipe, electric heat tracing and thermal insulati...