Concentrated Solar Power cooling options: Workarounds for water scarcity Ahead of the CSP Yield Optimization Conference & Expo in Denver (October 27-28), CSP Today speaks to Babul Patel, senior consultant at Nexant Inc., about the cost implication of plant cooling options and how to operate plants effectively under increasingly stringent water restrictions. CSP Today: For [...]
Solar Thermal Power Market Outlook in United States (US) to 2020 – Capacity, Generation, Regulations, Major Power Plants, and Key Companies Solar Thermal Power Market Outlook in United States (US) to 2020 – Capacity, Generation, Regulations, Key Assets, and Profiles of Major Companies” gives a view of United States (US) solar thermal market and provides [...]
Docket Number: 08-AFC-8 (Application For Certification) Committee Overseeing This Case: James D. Boyd, Commissioner Presiding Member Jeffrey Byron, Commissioner Associate Member Hearing Officer: Raoul Renaud Key Dates * 7/31/2008 – Original Application for Certification (AFC) filed * 5/28/2009 – Revised Application for Certification (AFC) filed * 8/26/2009 – Commission accepts AFC as “data adequate.” General [...]
SunPower Corporation, a manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels, and solar systems, today announced it has completed a 505-kilowatt solar power installation for Horizon Power, a government-owned utility providing power to remote and regional communities and resource operations in Western Australia. The ground-mounted SunPower T20 Tracker installation is located on two sites, Marble Bar [...]
The Indian solar photovoltaic industry has been growing at a fast pace for the past four years. However, India’s share in the global photovoltaic production is less than 2%, but the country has enormous potential for PV installations According to our research report “Indian Solar Energy Market Outlook 2012″ PV installations in India are expected [...]
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE conducts research on small and medium-sized solar thermal power plants that can quickly make an important contribution to sustainable energy supply. Concentrating collectors generate temperatures up to 400 degrees Celsius, with a varied benefits : electricity , refrigeration and industrial process heat. Solar thermal power plants over [...]
Oteegee Innovations Inc. has announced that they are arranging to build the proof of concept prototype for the thermal solar collector technology. The patent application has been filed with the USPTO and with the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and certain non-PCT countries. Solar-thermal collectors harness heat from the sun for Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) power [...]
SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB) and Solar Ventures S.r.l., a developer of solar parks in Italy, France and the Mediterranean area, today announced that they have signed a contract to design and build three solar power plants in the Piedmont region of Italy. Totaling 11.1 megawatts over 30 hectares, the development represents one of the [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Justice Department, and the state of Indiana announced that Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative, Inc. has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $950,000 and install and upgrade pollution control technology at its two coal-fired power plants in Indiana to resolve violations of the Clean Air Act. The [...]
Developing CSP projects in the US is a very challenging business, and the stages involved from getting it from the drawing board to construction phase, on average take up to 4 years. The secret to success is based upon essential pillars being in place. These pillars are 1) CSP site secured 2)Connected to transmission line [...]
2010 Solar Millennium AG has hit another milestone on the road to realizing its first parabolic trough power plants in the American southwest. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has approved a power purchase agreement between Solar Millennium’s American project development unit Solar Millennium LLC, Berkeley, and the US energy provider Southern California Edison (SCE) [...]
Renewable SAMCA’s La Florida solar thermal plant Spain has overtaken the US as the world leader in solar thermal power generation. With the opening of the new 50 MW La Florida plant in Alvarado, Badajoz in the west of the country, Spain’s total installed solar thermal power capacity is 432 MW, 10 MW ahead of [...]
Enel today inaugurated the “Archimede” solar thermal power plant at Priolo Gargallo (Syracuse, Sicily). The Archimede plant is the first in the world to use molten salts as the heat transfer fluid and is also the first in the world to integrate a combined-cycle gas facility and a solar thermal power plant for electricity generation. [...]
SkyFuel First in Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Industry to Offer Insurance-Backed Warranty
Solar Thermal Developer Solar Millennium Sells Additional Investments
Abengoa and JGC’s Thermal Solar Power Plant, Solacor 1, Comes Online
First Solar Thermal Power Plant in Southeast Asia is Fully Operational
Torresol Energy Launches Commercial Operations of Twin Solar Thermal Plants in Spain
Solar Alliance and SEIA Merge to Establish U.S. Solar policies at the State Level
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