Progress of Yumen Xinneng 50MW beam down solar tower system
Yumen Xinneng 50MW CSP plant uses the beam-down molten salt solar tower technology, with the heat storage time of 9 hours, and a design annual utilization time of more than 4,200 hours. A total of 15 mirror field modules will be built. The ...
Luneng 50MW Solar Tower project is debugging the mirror control system
On July 1, 2019, in the Luneng 50MW Tower CSP, the debugging of the mirror control system under the responsibility of Qingdao Yijie Hongli Technology Co., Ltd. (abbreviation: HLC) is progressing steadily. A total of 4400 heliostats have bee...
NEXT-CSP pilot solar loop will be ready soon, using 800°C particles as heat transfer and storage medium
CSTA reports, on May 21 and 22, 2019 NEXT-CSP 5TH PROJECT MEETING was held in Font-Romeu, at the CNRS solar furnace. During the meeting, partners have presented the work they have carried out so far and discussed with the entire consortium ...
800MW Noor Midelt I expected to begin construction in the last quarter of 2019
Paris, 22 May 2019 The Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (MASEN) has announced - after a competitive international bidding process - that the consortium of EDF (through its subsidiary EDF Renewables), Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company- Masdar,...
The forth Chinese CSP plant to be commissioned soon: Updates on China Gonghe 50MW tower plant
PowerChina Gonghe 50MW Molten Salt Tower CSP plant is among Chinas first batch of 20 pilot CSP projects, which is located in Hainan Eco Solar Energy Park, 12km southwest to Gonghe County of Qinghai Province. Here we have some updates about ...
Concentrated solar power in China and notice of the 5th China CSP conference
CSP development status in China After years of cultivation, Chinas concentrated solar power (CSP) industry has continued to expand, with a considerable number of companies specializing in CSP. The industry chain of CSP product manufacturing...
The 4th Council Congress of China STE Alliance democratically elected a new leadership group
On April 25th, 2019, the fourth Council Congress of China National Solar Thermal Energy Alliance (hereinafter referred to as the STE Alliance) was held in the Institute of Electrical Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...