Want to invest in a couple of slightly used solar thermal power plants in Spain? It is sure to be a better bet than Nuclear plants in Japan. ( or anywhere else for that matter). The Wallstreet Journal is reporting that Spanish construction company Actividades de Construccion y Servicios SA (ACS.MC) is trying to unload its renewable [...]
Abengoa, the company that develops innovative technology solutions for sustainable development in the energy and environment sectors, reported today that its first quarter 2011 revenues rose by 43% with respect to the first quarter of 2010, to 1,656 million euros, while EBITDA increased by 30%, reaching 254 million euros.
Idener: Talking controls for the maturing CSP industry As the attention of the CSP industry turns towards understanding how to optimise the output of new and existing plants, system controls have become a vital cog in the process. Idener, a spin-off from the University of Seville’s technological base, are developing these controls, and have just [...]
Solar Millennium AG took over the project company of the planned 50 MW solar thermal parabolic trough power plant Arenales from Fotowatio Renewable Ventures together with OHL Industrial, a division of the Spanish construction group Obrascón Huarte Lain, S.A. (OHL). Both companies each acquired 50 percent of the shares. With this transaction the Solar Millennium [...]
Mitsui WebsiteFCC and Japanese company Mitsui, partners in the Gúzman solar thermal power plant project, have closed funding for the project with a 226 million euro loan. Japanese bank Mizuho and Spain’s BBVA have granted project finance (i.e. non-recourse) for the plant, which will cost 272 million euro.
Recently the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and Spanish utility company Endesa inaugurated a direct solar steam generation and energy storage pilot plant at Carboneras, located in southern Spain.
Villanueva de la Serena/Madrid. At a festive celebration, María Dolores Aguilar, Vice President of the Junta de Extremadura (local government), José Luis Navarro Ribera, Minister of Industry, Energy and Environment of the Junta de Extremadura and Miguel Ángel Gallardo Miranda, the mayor of the city of Villanueva de la Serena today laid the foundation stone [...]
ACCIONA already has four plants in operation and two under construction in this technology, totaling 314 MW and an investment of around 1.4 billion euros At a ceremony attended by the President of the Regional Government of Extremadura, Guillermo Fernández Vara, ACCIONA today opened its CSP plant at Majadas de Tiétar (Cáceres), in which it [...]
Recently, the Prime Minister of Spain José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero visited Masdar City to experience firsthand the visible progress of the sustainable, cutting-edge urban development and to reaffirm the growing cooperation between the two nations in the development and deployment of renewable energy.
IRVING, Texas.-Fluor Corporation (NYSE:FLR) has announced that Elecnor S.A. has awarded the company an engineering services contract for two new 50 megawatt (MW) concentrating solar power (CSP) plants in Alcazar de San Juan, Spain. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in the third quarter of 2010.
FLORENCE, ITALY and SEVILLE, SPAIN—The role of concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) in global renewable energy supply depends upon positive regulatory environments that encourage investment and the availability of proven technologies that efficiently meet capital investment and operating expenditure objectives.
GL Exchange Forum Examines Opportunities In The Growing Offshore Wind Market The European Union’s (EU) goal of obtaining 20% of its electricity from wind energy by 2020 is within reach because wind power’s share of total installed capacity has quadrupled in the past 10 years from 2% in 2000 to 9% in 2009, according to [...]
Abengoa Solar partners with JGC Corporation to jointly own two 50 megawatt Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants in Spain. The two solar plants represent a total investment of more than 500 million euros. Abengoa Solar and JGC Corporation (“JGC”) have formed a partnership to own two 50 megawatt Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants in El [...]
SkyFuel First in Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Industry to Offer Insurance-Backed Warranty
Solar Thermal Developer Solar Millennium Sells Additional Investments
Abengoa and JGC’s Thermal Solar Power Plant, Solacor 1, Comes Online
First Solar Thermal Power Plant in Southeast Asia is Fully Operational
Torresol Energy Launches Commercial Operations of Twin Solar Thermal Plants in Spain
Solar Alliance and SEIA Merge to Establish U.S. Solar policies at the State Level
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