Tucson Electric Power (TEP) is partnering with AREVA Solar on an innovative concentrated solar power (CSP) addition to TEP’s H. Wilson Sundt Generating Station in Tucson, Ariz. Tucson Electric Power’s Sundt Solar Boost Project will use AREVA Solar’s Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR) solar steam generators to produce up to 5 megawatts (MW) of power [...]
GlassPoint Solar, the leader in solar enhanced oil recovery, has received the Platts Global Energy Commercial Technology of the Year award. Open to commercially applied innovation, GlassPoint’s solar enhanced oil recovery (EOR) solution was selected for its practicality, reliability and overall commercial success. “In the past year, we’ve brought solar EOR from concept to commercial [...]
GlassPoint Solar, the leader in solar enhanced oil recovery, has received the Platts Global Energy Commercial Technology of the Year award. Open to commercially applied innovation, GlassPoint’s solar enhanced oil recovery (EOR) solution was selected for its practicality, reliability and overall commercial success. “In the past year, we’ve brought solar EOR from concept to commercial [...]
Chevron Technology Ventures, a division of Chevron U.S.A. Inc. that identifies, evaluates and demonstrates emerging technologies, this week launched a unique demonstration project to test the viability of using solar energy to produce oil. The project uses over 7,600 mirrors to focus the sun’s energy onto a solar boiler. The steam produced is injected into [...]
Improving solar energy availability for parabolic trough technology Houston, TX – Struthers Wells, a division of Thermal Engineering International (USA) Inc. (TEi), a Babcock Power Inc. company with offices located in Houston, TX and Warren, PA, has been awarded a contract to design and supply two sets of solar steam generators complete with preheaters, kettle [...]
GREENS HOLDINGS LTD, a leading engineering and manufacturing group focusing on key heat transfer products designed to enhance energy efficiency and alternative clean energy equipment, today announced the successful installation of two Heat Recovery Steam Generators (“HRSGs”) that are key parts of a 225 MW gas fired power station in Northern India that is currently [...]
The illustration shows how one Solar Thermal Power company, Areva, is integrating concentrated parabolic solar thermal technology with natural gas steam to electric generators. This type of hybridization can also be done for coal or biomass fuels. The combined-cycle equipment utilizes natural gas-fired combustion turbine generators (CTG), each with heat recovery steam generators (HRSG), and steam [...]
The City of Palmdale proposes to construct, own, and operate the Palmdale Hybrid Power Plant (PHPP), an innovative 570 megawatt (MW) electric generating facility.   It combines the ultra-high efficiency clean burning natural gas fired combined cycle turbine technology (note: clean here does not refer to the amount of co2 it will produce.) with the state-of-the-art [...]
FREMONT, Calif. and MUSCAT, Oman Building on the launch of its solar enhanced oil recovery (EOR) project with Berry Petroleum earlier this year, GlassPoint Solar announced today the award of a contract to build a 7 MW solar EOR system for Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), the national oil company of Oman. PDO, the largest producer [...]
BrightSource Energy, Inc., developer of utility-scale solar thermal power plants, today announced that it has signed contracts with Siemens to purchase two steam turbine generators for use at its Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. Today’s announcement follows BrightSource Energy’s purchase of its first Siemens steam turbine generator in December 2008 to be used at Ivanpah’s [...]
BrightSource Energy, Inc., developer of utility-scale solar thermal power plants, announced today that it has signed a series of contracts with Riley Power Inc., a subsidiary of Babcock Power Inc., for three boilers to be operated at its 392-megawatt Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California’s Mojave Desert. The Ivanpah project will couple Riley’s solar [...]
SACRAMENTO – A California Energy Commission siting committee is recommending the approval of the planned Genesis Solar Energy Project in Riverside County. In its presiding member’s proposed decision (PMPD) released today, the committee said the proposed 250-megawatt facility, as mitigated, will have significant impacts on the environment. However, the benefits of the project would override [...]
Washington, DC – President Obama announced Saturday in his weekly video address that DOE has offered a conditional commitment for a $1.45 billion loan guarantee to Abengoa Solar, Inc. The loan will support the construction and start-up of Solana, a 250 net megawatt (MW) concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in Arizona. “After years of watching companies [...]
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