WANENBURG, Netherlands. AEG Power Solutions, the world’s leading manufacturer of power electronic systems and solutions for industrial power and renewable energy has equipped two 49.9MW solar thermal power plants in southern Spain with UPS systems. Each plant has been equipped with AEG PS’s Protect 3 and Protect 4 UPS. The client receives a reliable, powerful [...]
BADAJOZ, Spain. GE unit GE Energy Financial Services announced today it and German fund KGAL are jointly investing EUR111.1 million in a 50-megawatt parabolic trough concentrated solar power plant using molten salt energy storage in Torre de Miguel Sesmero, Badajoz, Spain. The GE unit and KGAL agreed to invest structured equity in Extresol II, developed [...]
The new solar power plant Gemasolar in Fuentes Andalucia, Spain was officially inaugurated yesterday by His Majesty the King of Spain Juan Carlos I and His Highness General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces in Fuentes Andalucia, Spain. Owned by [...]
Siemens Energy has received an order for a solar field in Catalonia, Spain, from the Spanish EPC UTE Termosolar Borges (Abantia/Comsa Emte). Siemens will design, supply, integrate and construct the entire solar field, including the mirrors and solar receivers. The unique parabolic trough power plant, to be built in Les Borges Blanques near Barcelona, will [...]
The Spanish association for the solar energy industry, Protermosolar, has announced that 4293 Km2 of CSP plants (equivalent to 1% of Spain´s territory) could supply the country with all the power it needs. The CSP Markets Report 2011-2012 details the current plan in Spain, to install 5,000 MW of CSP… but the industry is hoping [...]
Solar Millennium AG: Corporate bond repaid as scheduled by date of maturity The third Solar Millennium AG corporate bond amounting to € 20 million, which was issued on 22 August 2006, was repaid in full to investors yesterday. The bond had a fixed interest rate of 6.5% p.a. and contributed to the successful realization of [...]
Foster Wheeler AG (Nasdaq: FWLT) announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded contracts to supply solar steam generator systems to two separate solar thermal projects in Spain. The first of the two contracts is with UTE Africa Solar, the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractor for the La Africana [...]
Examining the very latest updates on CSP Plants around the world The CSP industry has seen several plants leaving the status of ‘planning’ or ‘under construction’ to operation in the last 12 months, most of them located in Spain and the US. In fact, between 2010 and 2011, Spain installed 410 MW and the USA [...]
Solar Millennium AG, together with OHL Industrial, a company of the Spanish construction group Obrascón Huarte Lain, S.A. (OHL), sold 49 percent of the project company of the planned 50 MW power plant Arenales to the RREEF Pan-European Infrastructure Fund, L.P., a fund managed by RREEF Infrastructure, a business unit of Deutsche Bank’s Asset Management [...]
The two installations have created 700 jobs during the construction phase and 50 for their operation. ACCIONA Energy has put its 50 MW “Palma del Río I” CSP plant into service to generate clean electricity equivalent to the consumption of around 35,000 homes. It represents an investment of around 247 million euros and it is [...]
The solar thermal power plant Andasol 3 in Andalusia, southern Spain, for the first time produced solar generated steam during a test phase in which the rows of parabolic mirrors were aligned with the sun. This test is another successful step on the way to completing and commissioning the solar power plant which will generate [...]
Heraeus Thin Film Materials to Exhibit High Efficiency Sputtering Targets for Solar Applications at Intersolar North America 2011 The Heraeus Thin Film Materials Division will showcase a selection of planar and rotatable sputtering targets for the photovoltaic and solar thermal markets at Intersolar North America 2011 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center West Hall from July [...]
Termosolar Alcazar, a 50/50 joint venture between SolarReserve, a U.S. developer of utility-scale solar power projects and Preneal, a Spanish developer of renewable energy projects, today announced the Spanish government’s award of tender for the venture’s 50 megawatt (MW) solar thermal plant to be built in Alcazar de San Juan. The Termosolar Alcazar Power Project [...]
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