Chinese Officials Visit Gemasolar Solar Thermal Plant in Spain
Gemasolar is the first commercial concentrated solar power plant with central tower receiver and molten salt storage technology.
Gemasolar is the first commercial concentrated solar power plant with central tower receiver and molten salt storage technology.
This award brings the successful consortium’s award to three projects totaling 238 MW and accounting for a 20 percent share of South Africa’s solar energy market
To help accelerate the commercialization of new technology that uses the sun’s energy rather than the electric grid or natural gas to power air-conditioning systems while co-producing renewable electricity, Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) has launched a multi-year demonstration of an advanced concentrated solar cogeneration system to benefit businesses and the region.
The 110 MWac facility will be built on 1,100 acres and produce enough energy to power approximately 35,000 homes.
Leading concentrating solar power companies, Abengoa, BrightSource Energy and Torresol Energy have formed the Concentrating Solar Power Alliance (CSPA). The new organization is dedicated to educating U.S. regulators, utilities and grid operators about the unique benefits of concentrating solar power (CSP) and of thermal energy storage as a foundational resource for a reliable, low-carbon electricity [...]
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 [...]
Fitch Ratings has published an update of its ‘Rating Criteria for Solar Power Projects’, which describes the analytical framework Fitch applies to evaluate debt issued for a broad range of utility-scale photovoltaic (PV), concentrating PV, and concentrating solar power projects worldwide. The solar projects discussed in the report are financed as stand-alone assets (or portfolios) [...]
Solar Millennium has sold the two project holding companies Solar Millennium Capital GmbH and Solar Millennium USA 2 GmbH to solarhybrid AG, Brilon. The sale of the two companies transfers Solar Millennium’s entire project pipeline for solar power plants in the southwest of the United States with a total capacity of 2.25 gigawatts to solarhybrid. [...]
BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading solar thermal technology company, has named Richard “Dick†Kelly as Chairman of the company’s Board of Directors. Kelly is the former Chairman and CEO of Xcel Energy, and brings more than four decades of experience in the electricity generation and public utility industry to his role at BrightSource. “Dick has [...]
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 [...]
Here comes the sun Just outside Seville, in the desert region of Andalucia, Spain, sits an oasis-like sight: a 100-meter-high pillar surrounded by rows of giant mirrors rippling outward. More than 600 of these mirrors, each the size of half a tennis court, track the sun throughout the day, concentrating its rays on the central [...]
SolarReserve, a U.S. developer of large-scale solar power projects, today announced the appointment of Stephen Mullennix as Senior Vice President of Operations. Mullennix will lead the company’s efforts in asset management, operations and corporate development. Mullennix brings 16 years of experience in the renewable energy and infrastructure industries to his new position at SolarReserve. He [...]
Sialsol is a Spanish engineering company with a strong presence in the field of Solar Thermal Power Plants worldwide. More than a one year ago, resulting from development of over 300 MWe, the company drafted a Technical Manual on Solar Thermal Plant to help understand a technology, which is expected to growth spectacularly. Due to [...]
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