The condenser for the power plant block of the Andasol 3 Solar Thermal power project arrived at the building site near La Calahorra on Monday. Also the turbine for the Andasol 3 power plant has already reached the Mediterranean coast in the south of Spain. At the same time, the generator that was built in [...]
Alcoa has announced that it is jointly testing an advanced solar technology with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), with the goal of making Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) technology competitive in the United States by lowering its cost to generate energy. NREL and Alcoa recently installed a new Alcoa-designed Concentrating Solar [...]
Abengoa Solar and E.ON Climate & Renewables have today formed a partnership that will see them jointly own and operate two 50MW Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants. The plants which are already under construction are located in Ecija (Seville), Southern Spain, one of the best areas in Europe in terms of solar radiation. The 50:50 [...]
Starwood Energy Group Global LLC (“Starwood Energy”), a private investment firm focused on energy infrastructure projects,recently announced that its affiliate, , LLC has signed a definitive power purchase agreement (“PPA”) with Arizona Public Service Company. Starwood Solar will contract with Lockheed Martin Corporation to construct a 290 megawatt concentrating solar trough plant in Harquahala Valley, [...]
July 1st marked the day that Europe’s first ever parabolic trough power plant, Andasol 1, was officially inaugurated under the patronage of the president of the Junta de Andalucía. In December 2008,Andasol 1 was connected to the grid and supplies up to 200,000 people in southern Spain with environmentally friendly electricity. With a collector surface [...]
Erlangen, Germany/ Berkeley, California Solar Millennium, LLC, Berkeley, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Solar Millennium AG, Erlangen (ISIN DE0007218406), signed power purchase agreements with US investor-owned utility Southern California Edison (SCE). The agreements, which are subject to approval of the California Public Utilities Commission, call for the development of two, 242 MW power plants, with the [...]
Australia’s NEP Solar, has won the prestigious Innovation Award at Intersolar 2009. Intersolar’s 2009 Award was made to NEP Solar for its new solar process heat collector,the PolyTrough 1200, which is now being manufactured in Sydney for local and export markets. The award was presented to NEP Solar’s Chief Financial Officer Antoine Millioud and General [...]
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Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit pushes start button at first solar thermal power plant in Thailand built with Solarlite’s unique technology
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