Denmark’s Investment Fund for Developing Countries (IFU) announced on Friday that it has sold the 45% stake it held in the 34-MW Pampa Elvira Solar thermal plant in Chile to Canada’s Innergex Renewable Energy. Innergex, which already owned 55% interest in the plant, finalised the acquisition for USD 5.5 million (EUR 5.03m), becoming the sole [...]
ACWA Power announced that it has received the initial commercial operation certificate from the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority to operate the second phase of the Noor Energy 1 independent power project. The Noor Energy project, touted to be the largest single-site concentrated solar power plant, is located in the fourth phase of the Mohammed [...]
Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued the first batch of methodologies for four voluntary greenhouse gas emission reduction projects: afforestation carbon sequestration, grid-connected solar thermal power generation, grid-connected offshore wind power generation, and mangrove forest construction. Solar energy, as an inexhaustible and renewable energy source on Earth, is commonly associated with photovoltaic power [...]
A new report from the Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute shows that concentrated solar power has a major role to play in cost-effectively decarbonising electricity, industry and fuels over the short- and long-term. Image: CSIRO October 2023 may prove to be a turning point in Australia’s energy transition. For the first time, I heard broader [...]
Saudi Arabia plans to shift a large portion of its domestic energy production away from fossil fuel towards solar energy by 2030. Yet, the solar energy pool is mainly targeting photovoltaic technology. This study analyzes the potential of cleaner energy production from solar energy using concentrated solar power technology. First, different locations for concentrated solar [...]
On October 20, the first set of heliostats for ENERGY CHINA Xinjiang Turpan Concentrated Solar Power + PV Integration Project 100 MW CT CSP Project (the “Project”), being constructed by Cosin Solar as a member of the EPC consortium, was successfully assembled and rolled off the assembly line, marking commencement of construction of the heliostat field. The Project uses [...]
As of 24:00 on October 31, the actual power generation of the SUPCON SOLAR Delingha 50MW Molten Salt Tower Concentrated Solar Power Plant has reached 17.42GWh for this month, and its cumulative power generation in the first ten months of 2023 has reached 119.34GWh, setting the highest operational record for the same period since its [...]
Join the EuroPaTMoS (European Parabolic Trough with Molten Salt) European Research Project Webinar: Advancements in Molten Salt for Concentrated Solar Power Systems: We are excited to invite you to an enlightening webinar presenting the outcomes of the EuroPaTMoS European research project. In collaboration with nine esteemed partners from four different countries: German Aerospace Center (DE), [...]
A team of Australian researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has combined three tools to assess the economic viability of a hybrid Concentrated Solar Power and desalination plant applicable for any region worldwide. “The interesting thing is you can modify this by yourself,” lead author Yingfei Huang explained. “You can put any [...]
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 challenging site at an elevation of 4,500 meters in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The ZhabuYe Parabolic Trough power plant in the highlands of [...]