In March, the CSP industry in India will consider how to overcome its financial barriers and improve project bankability India’s concentrated solar projects have faced countless hurdles since the National Solar Mission (NSM) was launched in 2010. However, setting up finance for the seven bid winning projects under Phase I of the NSM has proved [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
SunPower Corp. today announced that the company has broken ground on a 13.78-megawatt (DC) solar photovoltaic (PV) power system at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (NAWS China Lake) in California. The plant is expected to create 140 jobs during construction, and generate the equivalent of more than 30 percent of NAWS China Lake’s annual [...]
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 [...]
Canadian Solar Inc, one of the world’s largest solar companies, and the Ningxia Electric Power Group has announced the successful completion and grid-connection of a 10 MW ground mounted solar project, a part of a 50MW solar plant, in Hongsibao, Ningxia, in northwest China at the end of 2011. This 10 MW project consists of an [...]
NEW YORK, NY. –In recent months, solar manufacturers from across the globe havefocused more attention on the United States as the European debtcrisis has caused demand uncertainty in the one time solar hotbed. TheBedford Report examines the outlook for companies in the Solar Industry and provides investment research on JA Solar Holdings Co.Ltd. JASO-0.73% and [...]
WASHINGTON DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the approval of two renewable energy projects that further advance President Obama’s initiative for a rapid and responsible move to utility-scale production of renewable energy. The projects – a solar plant in California and a wind farm in Oregon – will be built on [...]
Istanbul – MimtaSolar has been named “Selected Sales Partner” and authorized for the distribution and after sales service of photovoltaic products manufactured by Danfoss Solar. The informal cooperation that started between the two companies in 2010 regarding grid connected photovoltaic systems has thus been formalized. One of the largest industrial groups in Denmark, Danfoss Group [...]
SANDVIKA, Norway. REC modules were selected for a 60MW module supplier agreement with the German project developer GP JOULE for solar power plant installations in France and Germany. REC will supply 60MW for free field solar power plants managed by the project developer GP JOULE. REC Peak Energy Series Modules will be installed on a [...]
ReneSola Ltd, a leading global manufacturer of solar products, this week announced the completion and grid connection of the Company’s 20 megawatt (“MW”) solar power plant in Wulan County in Qinghai, China with the Company providing all 20 MW of solar modules. The solar power plant is the first of its kind for ReneSola. Mr. [...]
Renewvia Energy Corporation, a provider of solar power systems for owners of investment-grade commercial properties, announced that it has completed a 281 kilowatt (kW) solar power system at Casa Carranza, a Mesa, Ariz. apartment complex. The grid-connected photovoltaic solar electrical system is currently providing 25 percent of power to the 300-unit apartment complex, resulting in [...]
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 [...]
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
Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit Pushes Start Button at First Solar Thermal Power Plant in Thailand
Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit pushes start button at first solar thermal power plant in Thailand built with Solarlite’s unique technology
New Concentrated Solar Thermal Technology Uses Considerably Resources than any Other CSP technology
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