Australia’s science agency CSIRO announced that its Concentrated Solar Power research facility in Newcastle, New South Wales had a breakthrough as part of research investigating the potential of “falling ceramic [...]

The EuroTrough technology, developed by sbp sonne, has been selected for China’s newest Concentrated Solar Power plant in Tibet. sbp sonne will provide the technology and engineering service for this [...]

At the 4th SFERA-III Doctoral Colloquium and Summer School, around fifty young researchers from all over the world met in Cologne from 11 to 15 September 2023. 🎓 Doctoral students [...]

One of the earliest recognitions of GlassPoint’s innovation in concentrated solar thermal was the SolarPACES Technology Innovation Award 2016 for its innovative trough CST enclosed inside glasshouses for generating steam [...]

The SolarPACES network, under the auspices of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has presented this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award to a duo: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Pitz-Paal from the German Aerospace [...]

The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, together with his entourage and a delegation of businessmen from the energy sector, will visit the Chinese Concentrated Solar Power plant with the highest [...]

Tunisia is innovating in the field of desalination. Tunisian engineers have just inaugurated Desaltec-z1 at the Miladi organic oil mill in Zarzis, in the south-east of the country. The new [...]

An international team of engineers accepted the Technology Innovation Award at the 2023 Solar Power and Chemical Systems (SolarPACES) conference on 13 October. We spoke to Dr Juan Felipe Torres [...]

Heliogen, a leading AI-enabled concentrating solar energy technology provider, has reached two significant milestones in the development of its Capella Project. The Capella Project is the world’s first fully integrated [...]

Breakthrough solar thermal research is using ceramic particles that act like a battery, storing solar energy as heat. Concentrated solar thermal (CST) with ceramic particles offer a reliable, renewable power [...]