Leading global energy and chemicals company completing a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for utility-scale solar power plant using BrightSource technology OAKLAND, California-BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading solar thermal technology company, today announced that Sasol has selected BrightSource’s power tower solar thermal technology following a worldwide review of solar technologies. Under the agreement, BrightSource [...]
Tucson Electric Power (TEP) is partnering with AREVA Solar on an innovative concentrated solar power (CSP) addition to TEP’s H. Wilson Sundt Generating Station in Tucson, Ariz. Tucson Electric Power’s Sundt Solar Boost Project will use AREVA Solar’s Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR) solar steam generators to produce up to 5 megawatts (MW) of power [...]
The Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) market will rise again in 2012 and in the next five years, according to new research from SBI Energy. Emerging from an enforced hiatus by PV solar technologies, the global capacity of utility-scale CSP was 2 GW at the close of 2011 with approximately another 2500 to 3500 MW becoming [...]
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CSP Today have released details of their hotly anticipated free webinar looking at the impact of phase I of the national solar mission on future market growth in India, taking place Wednesday 1st February. As we move into 2012 the progress made in phase I of India’s National Solar Mission has been a subject of [...]
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 [...]
CSP Today reveals the important steps Indian developers are taking to meet the JNNSM deadline in May 2013. In December 2010 the Phase I bidding process of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) in India was completed with more than sixty companies submitting bids. The reverse bidding mechanism that was introduced under the JNNSM [...]
AKOTRACE®, PART OF GEMASOLAR SUCCESS We take a break analyzing ways to optimize the performance of a CSP plant to talk instead about a real life example: Gemasolar. The magnificent plant has been recently officially inaugurated as the first commercial scale solar power plant capable of generating electricity all day and night. It has 15 [...]
Solar cooling, at first, sounds like a paradox. How can something so hot be responsible for producing cold? Through careful exploitation of thermodynamic principles, these systems utilize solar heat energy to fuel a cooling process. Energy is always lost to the surroundings whenever it changes form. So instead of transforming solar heat energy into electricity, [...]
Solar power can be used in many extraordinary ways. One of the most majestic applications of solar thermal energy is the solar furnace. These are enormous installations that make use of solar thermal energy for extreme high heat processes (temperatures as high as 3500oC/6330oF). The technology is wonderful for high temperature researchers; the heat produced [...]
Offshore wind energy capacity in Europe is projected to increase 17-fold between 2010 and 2020, while newer renewable technologies such as concentrated solar power and wave/tidal power will also increase more than 11-fold according to projections. European countries are also expected to significantly boost solar photovoltaic power, onshore wind and other renewable technologies over the [...]
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Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Concentrated Solar Power Market Trends, Policy Landscape, Technology Drivers, Competitive Threats, and Global Forecasts Concentrated solar power (CSP) has been a “start-stop” industry since the 1500s, when Leonardo da Vinci conceived the use of a parabolic mirror concentrator to heat water for [...]
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 [...]
The market for concentrated solar power (CSP) systems began a revival around 2004, at which time several key policy announcements inspired investors and engineers to start developing again. The revival gained further momentum in 2006, fueled by concerns about climate change and energy independence, with a peak in 2007-2008 as silicon-based photovoltaic (PV) modules rose [...]
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