SaltX Berlin pilot plant shows very promising results
Tests carried out since the start in April 2019 confirm stability and scalability The Swedish energy storage company SaltX Technology built and deployed a first-of-its-kind energy storage in 2019. The pilot plant, which is based on a nanoco...
Q&A: How Risk Mitigation Finance Can Cut CSP Costs
Cutting risk in financing will be the next key to further cut CSP costs, according to the author of Non-recourse project financing for concentrated solar thermal power published in the journal Utilities Policy. Dr. Steven Geroe teaches Ener...
Capex of modular Concentrated Solar Power plants could halve if 1 GW deployed
Soon to complete its first full-scale module in Morocco, Concentrated Solar Power developer 247Solar predicts series build gains could reduce capex to $3,000/kWe and sees advantages for industrial energy supply. Modular CSP arrays bring eco...
Shanghai Electric Exhibits Concentrated Solar Power Breakthrough
Shanghai Electric Group, a leading multinational power generation and electrical equipment manufacturing conglomerate, delivered a new wave of smart, connected and green integrated solutions and technological breakthroughs to the 24th World...
Cloud camera system WobaS provides concentrated solar power plants with reliable radiation nowcasts
The cloud camera system WobaS predicts the solar radiation in the next fifteen minutes. The system has been developed by the DLR Institute of Solar Research together with CSP Services GmbH and TSK Flagsol Engineering GmbH. It provides tempo...
Azelio to Partner With Masdar and Khalifa University to Install Concentrated Solar Power Pilot Project at Masdar City
Swedish solar energy company Azelio has partnered with Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (Masdar) and Khalifa University of Science and Technology to run a pilot project evaluating new technology in power storage. An agreement to formalize th...
Novel Concentrated Solar Power Design Combines the Solar Receiver with Thermal Energy Storage
Among the many international researchers inventing improvements in Concentrated Solar Power (CSP), a Chinese-Finnish team has designed an interesting innovation. They propose integrating energy storage in rocks and fan-recirculated hot air ...
Greece will start Minos 50MW solar tower CSP project
Saturday, during the International Trade Fair at Thessaloniki, the Prime Minister of Greece made his keynote speech, outlining the Governments program and priorities for the next 12 months with which to rejuvenate the economy. He made speci...
100MW Urat parabolic trough power plant construction goes well, more than 60% collectors installed
The 5th China Solar Thermal Electricity Conference, organized by China Solar Thermal Alliance was successfully closed on August 22, 2019 in Hangzhou China. During the conference, Mr. Zhang lei from Royal Tech CSP Company said that 100MW Ura...
Amper wins Dubai 100MW Tower CSP contract with Shanghai Electric Group in Dubai
Shanghai Electric Group has awarded Nervin Industries, a subsidiary of the Amper Group, the construction of salt storage tanks for a solar thermal power plant in Dubai for 13 million dollars (about 11.77 million euros). In a relevant fact r...
The CSP companies providing valves for China solar thermal power plants
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) is an innovative solar power technology and has been taken by countries like Spain, USA, Dubai, Morocco, South Africa, China and India. With the great expansion of new-built power projects and official support...
Africa’s biggest solar projects listed
Morocco is home to Africas biggest solar project Noor whereas South Africa hosts eight of the ten largest solar plants in Africa. Power-technology lists Africas biggest operational solar projects by installed capacity. Noor Solar Complex 51...
Concentrating solar power technology
Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technology involving the use of mirrors to focus sunlight onto a receiver that captures and converts the solar energy into heat for electricity generation has been in use since 1980s. The CSP technology has, ...
China Shouhang Dunhuang 100MW CSP Plant is running well
From July 29th to August 2nd, China Shouhang Dunhuang 100MW CSP Plant was continuously in operation. 103 hours of day and night continuous power generation under summer conditions was realized for the first time, and the power generation ex...
SUPCON Delingha 50MW tower CSP project achieved 97.65% of design generation capacity
Recently, the one-week power generation of SUPCON Delingha 50MW tower CSP demonstration project reached 97.65% of design generation capacity. According to the project owner Zhejiang Supcon Solar Technology Co.,Ltd., from July 25th to August...