
WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior (DOI) today announced the availability of a report by the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) and the possible impacts of new emission standards for the control of regional haze. DOI commissioned the study and will provide it to the [...]

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 [...]

The Global leading Display and Solar Solutions provider AU Optronics this week announced that it has successfully accomplished the first 1.2 MW solar project in South Africa with EKSOM, the biggest utility in South Africa, before the 2011 United Nations 17th Conference of the Parties (COP 17) . The project includes a tracking system PV power [...]

Examining the very latest updates on CSP Plants around the world The CSP industry has seen several plants leaving the status of ‘planning’ or ‘under construction’ to operation in the last 12 months, most of them located in Spain and the US. In fact, between 2010 and 2011, Spain installed 410 MW and the USA [...]

Welspun Energy Signs MoU With UP Govt. for 1320 MW Power Project LUCKNOW, India. Welspun Energy Ltd., part of the diversified Welspun Group, one of the fastest growing conglomerates in India, today signed a MoU and power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Government of Uttar Pradesh (UP) to set up a 1320 MW thermal power [...]

Southern Nevada’s First Non-Solar Renewable Energy Project Completed Ormat Technologies, Inc. and Kern River Gas Transmission Company today dedicated southern Nevada’s first non-solar renewable energy project, the Goodsprings Energy Recovery Station. Located 35 miles south of Las Vegas, the Goodsprings Energy Recovery Station is the first renewable energy project owned by NV Energy. The project [...]
The E.J. Stoneman Station biomass power plant, owned and operated by DTE Energy Services (Ann Arbor, Mich.), is delivering power. Dairyland Power Cooperative (La Crosse, Wis.) is purchasing the entire 40 MW output of the renewable energy facility to help serve the energy needs of its member cooperative consumers. “DTE Energy Services is proud to [...]
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Imperial Valley Solar Project First Utility Scale Project to Receive Both California Energy Commission and Bureau of Land Management Approval Tessera Solar’s Imperial Valley Solar Project became the first utility scale solar power project to be approved by both the state and federal governments, with the issuance today of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) [...]

Bergamo Acquisition Corp. has announced that Bergamo Harbinsons Energy, Ltd, a Joint Venture Company with Bergamo Acquisition Corp. USA, has entered into a joint development agreement with Andri Urja Pvt, Ltd, Delhi. The joint agreement is for the development of an advanced 5 MW Solar Hybrid Thermal Power Plant at the net sale price of [...]
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Iberese & Siemens CSP parabolic trough plant Lebrija I, will be visited by attendees of CSP Today Sevilla CSP Today talks to Iberese, Siemen´s other half in the construction of Lebrija I, a 50MW concentrated solar thermal Power plant in Sevilla. The relatively unknown company owns 50% of the project with giant Siemens and is [...]
More evidence that the hidden cost of our addiction to cheap electricity generated from the burning of powdered coal is not in our long term best interest. This time the environmental close call comes not offshore from deepwater oil wells but hundreds of miles inland from the coast , near Wilmington, North Carolina. A toxic [...]
Opening markets for Concentrated Solar Thermal Power – the industrial heat application Heavy industry can be a viable secondary market today for CSP producers, but questions remain on whether start-up costs are justifiable for industrial users, and how reliable CSP can be for processes that can’t pace production by the sun. Solar thermal heat implies [...]

Siemens to present solutions for sustainable power supply at the World Energy Congress 2010 Siemens has announced their intentions to again take part in the World Energy Congress (WEC), held from September 12 to 16, 2010, in Montreal, Canada. This event, which takes place every three years, has become a key gathering point for the [...]