News source: Hydrogen Insight Industrial users can bid for subsidies to switch to green H2 or other low-emissions technology Germany’s government has launched the first €4bn ($4.4bn) bidding round of its estimated €50bn Carbon Contracts for Difference (CCfD)...
CSP News Briefs
India to issue a tender for a 500-MW concentrated solar-thermal power project
News Source: Economic Times/Energy World The tender was announced by the Chairman and Managing Director R P Gupta of the Indian state-owned Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI). Probable locations for the project development will be Gujarat, Rajasthan, or Andhra...
Spain, one of the most attractive countries to develop thermal storage
News Source: El Periodico de la Energia It is estimated that by 2030, these technologies could electrify up to 8% of current global gas consumption, which would translate into a 2% reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions. In a world increasingly aware of the...
Vast secures $40 million to build its solar fuel plant at Port Augusta to supply green methanol for shipping
News Source: RenewEconomy The developers of a solar thermal powered methanol production facility that will supply green fuel for shipping and aviation have bedded down $A40 million in funding deals that will underpin construction of the Port Augusta plant, known as...
Japan to pay 15 years cost difference to birth green hydrogen technologies
[CfD or Contracts-for-Difference subsidies pay the difference between an entrenched energy technology and a newly developing one to bring down those costs till it has scaled-up. CfD policies in the UK for its first decade of offshore wind jumpstarted widespread...
SolarPACES 2022 Conference Proceedings published Open Access
SolarPACES 2022: Proceedings are being published Dear participants of the SolarPACES 2022 conference, We are delighted to announce the release of the SolarPACES 2022 conference proceedings on the TIB platform. Please be aware that the papers are being published...
Cosin begins heliostat assembly for 2 of 3 100MW Xinjiang tower CSP projects
Press Release: Cosin Solar On January 24, the first set of heliostats for the 100MW CT CSP project of the POWERCHINA Turpan Tuokexun CSP + PV Hybrid Project, being constructed by Cosin Solar, was successfully assembled. The project, located in Tuokexun County, Turpan...
Nordic Green Bank lends Kyoto Group EUR 4 million for Heatcube thermal storage
Press Release:Nefco Nefco – the Nordic Green Bank – has signed a loan agreement with Kyoto Group AS, a Norwegian company that has developed a heat storage technology based on molten salt. The EUR 4 million investment will support the international scale-up of Kyoto...
RFI by Feb 20: Supercritical Carbon Dioxide-Based Turbomachinery for Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power Plants
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) issued a request for information (RFI) to better understand the opportunities to deploy supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) based turbomachinery for concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP)...
DOE Wants your Input on Receivers and Reactors for Concentrating Solar-Thermal Technologies
Solar Energy Technologies Office The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) issued a request for information (RFI) to better understand technology development needs and commercialization opportunities for receivers and reactors used in...
Glasspoint and Saudi firm Ma’aden unveil 9 tons/hr solar steam demo plan
Source: Email from Glasspoint Ma’aden and GlassPoint Unveil Plans to Build Solar Thermal Technology Showcase First phase of project development for world’s largest industrial solar thermal project NEW YORK/RIYADH, January 11, 2023 -- Saudi Arabian Mining Company...
India’s proposed big CSP tender gets China’s attention
Source: CSPFocus (the premier news outlet for CSP in China) It was reported that India will carry out a round of renewable energy bidding in the first quarter of 2024, which requires bidders to submit a program must contain more than 50% of the CSP capacity. This news...
Cosin Solar completes heliostats on former Three Gorges CSP project
Source: Cosin Solar On December 26, installation of the 25594th heliostats was successfully completed in the Jinta ZhongGuang Solar "CSP + PV" hybrid pilot project 100MW CSP project, marking the completion of the assembly and installation of all the heliostats in the...
US Department of Energy lays out roadmap for LPO funding
The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) provides access to debt capital for high-impact energy and manufacturing projects. Over more than a decade, LPO has developed a strong understanding of what makes a project more likely to advance through...
The Future Is Bright for Turning Sunlight Into Sustainable Jet Fuel
Source: Bloomberg/Lufthansa The Challenge The aviation sector has charted a course to decarbonize itself – and investors see opportunity. According to BNEF, startups with a focus on low-carbon aviation technology raised $4.6 billion in 2022, and another $1.21 billion...
US releases rule ensuring only green hydrogen gets $3/kg tax credit
Source: Hydrogen Insight The US government has finally unveiled its long-awaited proposed rules on clean hydrogen production, determining the criteria that developers will have to meet in order to qualify for the hydrogen tax credit of up to $3 per kilogram. The...
GlassPoint redesign directly heats storage, cutting solar steam cost 30%
Press Release: GlassPoint Unveils Technology Advancements Reducing Solar Steam Costs by 30% The new "Unify" storage system and redesigned structure enable lower-cost, zero-carbon, 24/7 industrial heat for the only solar steam solution proven at scale NEW YORK,...
DEWA inaugurates its 700 MW trough and Tower CSP project for Dubai
The world’s largest concentrated solar power (CSP) project was inaugurated in Dubai on Wednesday as part of the fourth phase of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. With a total investment of $4.3 billion (AED15.78 billion), the fourth phase covers an area...
Game-changing Sun-to-Liquid: Fuels from Concentrated Sunlight launches II
Round II of Sun-to-Liquid is launched: This initiative will demonstrate the scalability and high efficiency of producing sustainable synthetic fuel from CO2, water, and sunlight. Synhelion is one of the industry partners for the project, providing the expertise for...
Solar fuels efficiency increase from MIT – use multiple reactors
The system as a whole resembles a train of box-shaped reactors running on a circular track. In practice, this track would be set around the solar thermal source. MIT engineers aim to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like system of...
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