Print Special Issue Flyer Special Issue Editors Special Issue Information Keywords Published Papers A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A2: Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems". Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2023 Special Issue Editors Dr. Kypros Milidonis E-Mail Website Guest Editor [...]
A pilot project in the Gobi Desert that generates energy out concentrated solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight onto a small area, is the first of its kind of China and breaks a number of records in Asia, in terms of [...]
The solar thermal is the most competitive alternative to generate electricity from the sun, complementing the photovoltaic and avoiding CO2 emissions. The new solar power must be a combination of photovoltaic and concentrated solar thermal to overcome the EU's objectives of renewable and decarbonisation by 2030, with a cost of [...]
The General Meeting of the Spanish Association for the Promotion of the Solar Thermal Industry (Protermosolar), has re-elected unanimously president of Protermosolar for a period of two years. Luis Crespo, who from 2008 to 2016 served as general secretary, was elected president of Protermosolar in 2016. Luis Crespo is a [...]
100MW parabolic trough concentrated solar power plant Ilanga CSP 1, together with Xina Solar One is among the Round 3 CSP projects under South African Department of Energy’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP). As Siyabonga Mbanjwa, Managing Director-South Africa in SENER shares on social media, significant [...]
China, the contracts for core equipment and Supervision of CPECC Hami 50MW molten salt tower CSP demonstration project are officially signed. CSPPLAZA correspondent learned that the signed contract is a package, including contracts of concentrating solar system, steam generator, turbine island, generator set and supervision. According to Dongfang Electric [...]
The high penetration of renewable energy in electricity grids brings the role of balancing production and demand for Solar Thermal Energy (STE) plants. Due to their thermal storage capability, STE plants provide certain flexibility between collecting thermal energy from the sun and transforming it into electric energy by means [...]
Now in its third year of operation, Ivanpah set new production records throughout the summer of 2016. July proved to be the best month yet, with 98,849 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity produced from all three units. Energy delivered in July represented a 60% increase over July 2015 (61,681 MWh) and a 175% [...]
Aora’s solar tulip CSP starts shining in Ethiopia, without water. Most people think that CSP (Concentrating Solar thermal Power) plants are large and expensive. But what about this? The Micro-CSP technology from Aora Tulip has a lot of advantages. This ‘micro technology’ is modular, hybrid, uses minimal water and is [...]
United PV’s recently awarded 100 MW Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant in China signals a new movement of PV developers into the CSP market, building on gains made in an increasingly crowded PV sector and bringing investment and potential technology improvements to CSP projects, industry sources said. United PV Group [...]
Aalborg CSP, leading developer and supplier of innovative renewable systems and technologies has begun construction of the world’s first Integrated Energy System based on Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) to holistically satisfy multiple energy needs of Sundrop Farms’ greenhouses in the South Australian desert. In the first phase, a 51,500m² solar [...]
The Concentrated Solar Power plants that began operating early last year in the deserts of Riverside and San Bernardino counties are becoming more productive with practice. In fact, two of the plants, the Desert Sunlight and Genesis projects in eastern Riverside County, produced more electricity than expected during a one-year [...]
The largest projects to be financed in Q3 this year included solar thermal electricity generation, or Concentrated Solar Power, plants in China, Israel and South Africa. Worldwide investment in renewable energy and energy-smart technologies totalled $70bn in the third quarter of 2015, just 1% below the equivalent figure a year [...]
