SkyFuel, Inc. has confirmed plans to enter the solar thermal market in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) with their high performance parabolic trough collector, and seeks local partners to establish its presence there. SkyTrough® is the optimum technology solution for the recently announced concentrating solar power (CSP) market program promoted by the King Abdullah [...]
SkyFuel, Inc., maker of the highest performance and lowest cost parabolic trough solar collector in the world, is now the first in the Concentrating Solar Thermal Power (CSP) industry to offer insurance to support the company’s warranty. After more than a year of due diligence, Munich Re — one of the worldwide leading reinsurance companies [...]
Erlangen, 16 March 2012 – Solar Millennium AG’s insolvency administrator, Volker Böhm, has sold additional investments of Solar Millennium AG to investors. Schoeller Renewables GmbH, headquartered in Pullach im Isartal, has acquired Solar Millennium AG’s shares in PV Power Holding GmbH, headquartered in Erlangen. Solar Millennium AG had a 50 percent holding in the company, [...]
The plant will produce the energy equivalent of that needed to power approximately 26,000 homes. More than 60,500 mirrors, located over 110 hectares, will concentrate sunlight. Abengoa (MCE: ABG), the international company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainable development in the energy and environment sectors, and JGC Corporation (JGC) have brought Solacor 1, their [...]
New direct steam generation principle co-developed by DLR is used in a parabolic trough collector The solar thermal power plant fed its full output of five megawatts into the grid for the first time on 25 January 2012. This power plant went into operation at the end of last year, and is the first parabolic [...]
Torresol Energy, a joint venture between Masdar – Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company and SENER – the Spanish engineering and construction firm, announced today at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi that the Valle 1 and Valle 2 plants – two identical 50 MW parabolic trough plants, located in Cadiz, in the South [...]
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), the national trade association for the solar energy industry, announced this week that it has officially merged with the Solar Alliance, an advocacy organization committed to establishing solar policies at the state level. Effective immediately, the Solar Alliance will operate under the SEIA brand in an effort to present [...]
On November 29, 2011, Southeast Asia’s the first solar thermal parabolic trough plant built with Solarlite’s unique technology in Southeast Asia was opened in Huaykrachao, which is located in the Thai province of Kanchanaburi. Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister, Yongyuth Wichaidit, filled in for hospitalized Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to give a speech at the opening [...]
Southeast Asia’s the first solar thermal parabolic trough plant built with Solarlite’s unique technology in Southeast Asia was opened in Huaykrachao, which is located in the Thai province of Kanchanaburi. Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister, Yongyuth Wichaidit, filled in for hospitalized Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to give a speech at the opening of the 5 MW [...]
ABB has launched a new concept for turnkey concentrating solar power plants based on a low-cost, highly efficient and highly scalable technology that uses considerably less material, land and water than any other CSP technology. ABB and Novatec Solar, a company in which ABB is a shareholder, are together able to offer scalable turnkey solutions [...]
Skyline Solar ™ announced this week that its Skyline Solar X14 System has been listed by the California Energy Commission (CEC) as an eligible product. CEC listing makes the Skyline X14 System eligible for California performance based incentives (PBI), and will drive faster adoption of Skyline Solar’s cost-efficient and field-proven concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) system. The [...]
BADAJOZ, Spain. GEÂ 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 [...]
Sky Power Solutions Corp, an emerging leader in the development and marketing of next generation lithium-powered batteries worldwide, and a leading developer of residential Solar Concentrating, Electric Power Generation Systems able to produce in excess of 2 Kilowatts (kw) of electric power with ZERO emissions and sunlight as the only fuel including built-in heat capture [...]
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