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 ...
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...