Effective February 1, 2012, Shmuel Fledel (58) will become CEO of the Solar Thermal Energy Business Unit in the Solar & Hydro Division of Siemens Energy. Fledel is an aeronautical engineer and has vast experience in production process improvement. He has profound knowledge of engineering, finance and marketing, which he gained in various high-level management [...]
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 [...]
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New direct steam generation principle co-developed by DLR is used in a parabolic trough collector The solar thermal power plant fed its full output of five megawatts into the grid for the first time on 25 January 2012. This power plant went into operation at the end of last year, and is the first parabolic [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Going Green in Australia Made Easy By Solar Panels NEW SOUTH WALES. The Clean Energy Council recently revealed that Australia is home to the world’s best clean energy resources – sunshine, wind, waves, geothermal hot rocks, biomass and more. The council says Australians can benefit a lot from trying to harness these clean environmental energy [...]
The joint venture of SolarReserve, a U.S. developer of utility-scale solar power projects, the Kensani Group, an experienced empowered infrastructure player in the Southern African market, and Intikon Energy, a South African developer of renewable energy projects, announced this week that the South Africa Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded the consortium preferred bidder status for [...]
Coupling Storage with High-efficiency Power Tower Technology Provides Cost-Competitive, Reliable and Dispatchable Solar Power during California’s Peak Demand Periods; Reduces Costs to California Ratepayers BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading solar thermal technology company, today announced the addition of its SolarPLUSTM thermal energy storage capability to three of its power purchase agreements with Southern California Edison [...]
ISTANBUL, TURKEY. GE (NYSE: GE) and Turkish energy company MetCap Energy Investments have announced their investment in one of Europe’s most efficient, natural gas-fired power plants. Featuring GE technology, the 878-megawatt Eurostar project will help to power Istanbul, supporting Turkey’s efforts to modernize its aging energy infrastructure and meet its growing electricity requirements. During the [...]
SunEdison, the solar unit of U.S.-based MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. WFR +0.36% , said recently that it has arranged $110 million in finances for building 50 megawatts of solar power projects in western India. The company secured the funding from Overseas Private Investment Corp., L&T Infrastructure Finance Co. and Infrastructure Development Finance Co., SunEdison said [...]
SolarNet Holdings LLC, a majority owned subsidiary of ITOCHU Corp., has strengthened its management team by appointing Toshihiko Fujioka as its new CEO. A 27-year veteran of ITOCHU, Fujioka had served as General Manager of ITOCHU’s Solar Business Department since 2009, with overall responsibility for the company’s extensive global solar operations, ranging from the distribution [...]
WANENBURG, Netherlands. AEG Power Solutions, the world’s leading manufacturer of power electronic systems and solutions for industrial power and renewable energy has equipped two 49.9MW solar thermal power plants in southern Spain with UPS systems. Each plant has been equipped with AEG PS’s Protect 3 and Protect 4 UPS. The client receives a reliable, powerful [...]
With the rapid growth of the optoelectronic industry in China, the country’s power generation enterprises have been planning their own thermal power generation projects, which leads to China Concentrating Solar Power Summit in Beijing on December 5th. Among the newly encouraged energy resources listed in the Catalog of Guidance of Industrial Structural Adjustment (2011 Version) [...]
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