The 3rd China Solar Thermal Electricity Conference successfully concluded
On August 10, the Third Session of China Solar Thermal Electricity Conference successfully concluded in Dunhuang, Gansu, lasting for three days. The conference is jointly sponsored by China National Solar Thermal Alliance, China Renewable E...
Abengoa achieves practical completion for its third concentrated solar power plant in South Africa–Xina Solar One
Abengoa has achieved practical completion for Xina Solar One, its third solar thermal plant in South Africa. Xina Solar One is a 100 MW plant that uses parabolic trough technology to generate renewable and sustainable and dispatchable power...
Official start of field-leveling of Rayspower Yumen Dongzhen 50MW Parabolic trough CSP Demonstration Project
Recently, the early field-leveling of Rayspower Yumen Dongzhen 50MW Parabolic trough CSP Demonstration Project has been officially started. The construction plan of this project is to level off the site and to set up eight steps along the n...
SolarReserve Wins Aurora CSP Project In South Australia
SolarReserve LLC has won a contract to build in South Australia a 150-MW concentrating solar power (CSP) plant with 1,100 MWh of molten salt energy storage capacity to serve the State Governments needs. Construction will start next year, wi...
Shall Solar Thermal Generation Help Desalination Technology Become Strong Enough to Unleash a Boom?
In Morocco, a big new solar-powered plant for turning seawater into drinking water is being built. Is the business case for renewable-energy-powered desalination technology becoming strong enough to unleash a boom? This summer, the Spanish ...
Solar Thermal Shows Highest Energy Yield Per Square Metre
The annual energy yield per square metre is much higher for solar collectors than for other renewable technologies, as the figure on the left shows. Compared to PV, solar collectors produce, on average, three times as many kilowatt-hours. C...
Updated Progress Of Chinese 20 CSP Demonstration Projects
Nearly one year has passed since Chinas first batch of CSP demonstration projects have been approved. It is only 17 months left for those CSP projects to be finished by the end of 2018, according to the deadline set by Chinas National Energ...
Crescent Dunes CSP plant back online after repairing leakage on molten salt tank for eight months
The Crescent Dunes power plant, the first-of-its-kind solar plant in Central Nevada is back online and generating power after being down for repairs for eight months. The Crescent Dunes power plant, 225 miles northwest of Las Vegas, returne...
Saudi Arabian hybrid solar-gas plants produce world cheapest CSP
Under the management of Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), Saudi is planning its first ISCC project combined with CSP---Duba 1 ISCC power station. The project will mostly utilize F-class gas turbines for energy generation, with the concentrat...
Experimental technology offers a new ray of hope
When you were a kid, did you ever try to start a fire by using a lens or a curved mirror to concentrate sunlight? Chen Yuda is applying the same principle in a bid to solve Chinas energy and pollution problems. This technology, called conce...
SolarReserve Receives Environmental Approval for 390 Megawatt Solar Thermal Facility with Storage in Chile
Santiago, Chile SolarReserve , the industry leader in baseload solar power solutions and advanced solar thermal technology with energy storage, has received an environmental approval from the Chilean government to build a 390 megawatt solar...
SolarPACES Task III workshop will be held in Santiago de Chile on September 25th 2017
The next SolarPACES Task III workshop will be held in Santiago de Chile on Monday, September 25th 2017. The agenda will be within the following topics: 09:00 Welcome and introduction 09:15 Summary Task III progress and activities 09:30 Upda...
Single-tank molten salt receiver demo successful in Masdar City
June 22 (Renewables Now) - Masdar Institute and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have built, tested and validated what is touted as the worlds first direct absorption molten salt receiver for concentrated solar power (CSP). M...
Cleanergy and Datang enter execution phase of multibillion SEK Stirling CSP project in China
Cleanergy AB in April this year signed an agreement with Datang Holdings New Energy Technologies Limited (Datang), a Chinese energy company now moving into large scale installations of solar power plants and energy storage. The agreement co...
SaltX and Aalborg CSP to develop integrated energy storage solution for the global solar power market
SaltX Technology listed on Nasdaq First North and Danish Aalborg CSP A/S a leading provider of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) and integrated energy systems have agreed on the key terms for a non-exclusive Joint Development Agreement to deve...