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...
Concentrating Solar Power is the Mainstay of the Future New Energy Field
China has ushered in an upsurge in the establishment of concentrating solar power (CSP) projects in 2017, since it published the benchmark electricity price for CSP and determined the first batch of demonstrative projects in 2016. However, ...
Standard of “Organic Heat Carrier for Concentrating Solar Power” formally issued with dual standard number
Approved jointly by China National Solar Thermal Energy Alliance and China Boiler Water Treatment Association, the standard of Organic Heat Carrier for Concentrating Solar Power: Biphenyl - Biphenyl Oxide Mixture, has been formally issued w...
Hangzhou Steam Turbine Co., Ltd. Wins the Bid of Turbine-generator Set for Supcon Delingha 50MW Solar Tower Project
On April 14, Supcon Delingha 50MW Solar Tower project, one of Chinas first 20 CSP demonstration projects, held the signing ceremony of its turbine-generator set. The final winning bidder is Hangzhou Steam Turbine Co., Ltd (short for Hangzho...