19 2019-04

SUPCON Delingha 50 MW Solar Tower Plant Reached Full-load Operation

At 14:19, April 17th,2019, SUPCON SOLAR Delingha 50MW CSP Solar Tower Plant reached full-load operation. Records show the major indicators of the system has exceeded their design parameters: The molten salt at the outlet of the receiver rea...

11 2019-04

121 MW Ashalim Plot B starts commercial operation

Its reported that GE Renewable Energy received the Provisional Acceptance Certificate (PAC) for the 121 MW Ashalim Plot B Concentrated Solar Power Tower on April 7, 2019. This marks the handover of the plant to the customer Megalim and the ...

11 2019-04

Introduction to CSP performance models and their uses 5 days of training

Introduction to CSP performance models and their uses 5 days of training. May 20-24, Beijing Organizer: China National Solar Thermal Energy Alliance (STE Alliance) Training content: Molten-Salt Tower Modeling Design basics Solar Resource da...

04 2019-04

Concrete base of CSP tower for 4th phase of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park now complete

Monday, April 01, 2019 HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), has inspected the construction work of the fourth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, the largest single-site con...

12 2019-03

100MW parabolic trough solar pant installing the hydraulic drive system

It is reported that the hydraulic drive system developed by CSIC Chongqing Hydraulic Mechanical- Electronical Co., Ltd. has been sent to Inner Mongolia for the 100MW parabolic trough solar power project, at the site, the installation and co...

08 2019-03

Dubai super engineering project achieved another node progress

Cheers! The Dubai 100MW solar tower plant has completed the foundation of the Solar Tower. photo source: Noor Energy 1 The 100MW solar tower plant is one part of the Dubai phase IV solar hybrid plant, which comprises of one 100MW solar towe...

08 2019-03

Saudi Arabia’s Tadawul-listed Al Yamamah Steel wins $107m contract for Dubai concentrated solar power park

Saudi Arabias Tadawul-listed Al Yamamah Steel has signed a $106.7m (SAR400.3m) contract with Spains Europea de Construcciones Metalicas to supply steel for a solar park project in Dubai. The four-year contract, signed off on 3 March, 2019, ...

26 2019-02

Key Activities and events of CNSTEA in 2019

As a Class-A alliance of the Ministry of Science and Technology, China National Solar Thermal Energy Alliance (hereinafter referred to as CNSTEA) achieved good results in 2018 in such aspects as academic exchanges, technical training, infor...

21 2019-02

The largest parabolic trough power plant in China has installed the first collectors

China Shipbuilding New Power Co., Ltd (shorted as CSNP) is the EPC contractor of the largest Parabolic Trough Power Plant in China, with the support of Royal Tech CSP as the solar field technology integrator. At present, the project is over...

20 2019-02

The first solar tower heating system put into operation in China

On October 5, 2018, the small centralized solar heating demonstration system developed by Solar Thermal Energy department of Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEECAS), in the absence of any auxiliary en...

20 2019-02

SEPCOIII Gets the First-level Qualification of General Contracting for Construction Projects

Recently, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction issued the Notice on Approving the Tenth List of Construction Enterprises Qualification in 2018, The first-level qualification of general contracting for construction projects o...

20 2019-02

SEPCOIII Gets 5 National Utility Model Patents and 4 Software Copyrights

On February 11th, SEPCOIII Hongrui Consulting Company got 5 national utility model patents and 4 software copyrights, and including the utility model relates to a type of welded plugging plate in hydraulic pressure test of pipeline, a syste...

13 2019-02

Shanghai Electric released the project details of Dubai 950MW CSP+PV hybrid plants

Shanghai Electric, as the EPC contractor, released the latest progress of the Dubai 950MW CSP+PV solar complex, the fourth phase of Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in Beijing January 22, 2019. As its reported before that the fourt...

24 2019-01

20 CSP demonstration projects are expected to be fully promoted

The file of Promoting the Construction of Solar Thermal Power Demonstration Projects issued by China National Energy Administration last May clearly stated that the first batch of solar thermal power (CSP) demonstration projects which are c...

13 2018-12

World's largest CSP plant ties tariffs to big storage to hit record price

ACWA Powers Noor Energy 1 CSP-PV project in Dubai combines optimized 15-hour CSP storage with demand-focused tariffs and supply chain efficiency to hit the record-low price of $73/MWh, project partners told the CSP Madrid 2018 conference. A...