CSP News & Analysis
- Fractal corrosion fix in Gen3 CSP by Ranga Pitchumani 9 Jun 2023
- Thermochemical energy storage to deliver Gen3 solar 365 days/yr 1 Jun 2023
- Heat-recovery for a solar reactor is tested at ETH Zürich 8 May 2023
- Oxygen fix for high-temperature molten-salt degradation (and corrosion) at 620°C 3 May 2023
- Cascaded thermocline storage with metal wool gets test: HYBRIDplus 20 Apr 2023
- Vast Solar’s fix for tank leaks that stymied the first Tower CSP 4 Apr 2023
- Add Nickel to Ceria for Solar Syngas at just 700°C 29 Mar 2023
- Water-cooled window for hot solar receivers over 1500°C 17 Mar 2023
- Successful PROMES-CNRS thermocline test of latent/sensible heat storage 8 Mar 2023
- Are there still careers in solar energy innovation? 6 Feb 2023
- Fraunhofer-Chile finds PV-CSP combo has better LCOE than gas 17 Jan 2023
- Solar energy record: Mongolian CSP generated round the clock 10 Jan 2023
- SolarSteam wins recognition for Canadian climate tech 8 Jan 2023
- Consortium to demonstrate nitrogen for fertilizer from biosolids using solar thermal 17 Dec 2022
- Innovation in its volumetric absorber takes OVR efficiency to 90% 15 Dec 2022
- Sodium heat transfer to Magnesia gets storage test 5 Dec 2022
- Denmark’s solar district heat leadership due to great policies 23 Nov 2022
- DLR finds CST is the Goldilocks renewable to decarbonize German industry 17 Oct 2022
- China’s 2050 power could be Zero Carbon for under 1% of GDP: study 12 Oct 2022
- At SolarPACES 2022, Heliogen talks up solar heat efficiency for mines 4 Oct 2022
- The business case for storing energy thermally in former coal plants 5 Sep 2022
- BA student devises algorithm to optimize Tower CSP preheating strategy 2 Sep 2022
- How hot solar aviation fuel (thermochemistry heated by solar mirrors) took off 10 Aug 2022
- On-Sun Test of Novel Solar Combined-Cycle Finds… 1 Aug 2022
- Vast Solar to grow Port Augusta CSP to 150 MW at old SolarReserve site 18 Jul 2022
- China Announces Another 1.3 GW of CSP with 12,000 MWh of Thermal Storage 7 Jul 2022
- Paper Shows How Dispatchable CSP Can Solve the EU Gas Crisis 9 Jun 2022
- Bill Gates-funded startup Rondo turns Solar or Wind into Heat 1 Jun 2022
- Will the US Demo Long-duration Energy Storage in Time? 12 May 2022
- Mining Tech shows How Particle CSP can Hoist Tons of Hot Sand 21 Apr 2022
- CEMEX and Synhelion ace the First “Hot Solar” Cement Trial 12 Apr 2022
- How China’s Cosin Solar Solved Some Tower CSP Challenges 22 Mar 2022
- How Did Cosin Solar Tower CSP Reach Projected Performance So Fast? 16 Mar 2022
- Researchers in Australia Investigate Open Vortex Solar Receiver for Thermochemistry at 1000°C 24 Feb 2022
- NREL Results Support Cheap Long Duration Energy Storage in Hot Sand 8 Feb 2022
- Namibia to De-Risk CSP with Permitted Siting and BOOT Finance 7 Feb 2022
- World’s Largest Energy Firm to Build Three Chinese CSP Projects 24 Jan 2022
- China’s Big State-Owned Firms Begin New CSP for 2024 24 Jan 2022
- Volateq Brings Drone Monitoring Subscriptions for Trough Solar Thermal Energy 16 Dec 2021
- New Sulfur-Based Solar Reactor Makes Cheap Green Hydrogen for Copper Mines 14 Dec 2021
- Absolicon Investigates Wastewater Sludge Drying with 140°C Solar Heat 12 Dec 2021
- Hot Solar Biomass Gasifier Makes Clean Hydrogen-Rich Syngas 17 Nov 2021
- Advance Hot Solar Fuels with “Spillover” Policies 9 Nov 2021
- The Economics of Running CSP as a Capacity Resource in the 100% Renewable Future 20 Oct 2021
- Why Likana’s 24-Hour Solar Bid under $34/MWh Lost in Chile 14 Oct 2021
- Have Heliostat Cost Cuts Helped Likana Bid CSP Under 4 Cents? 30 Sep 2021
- Why Lunar Engineering is an Exciting R&D Field for the “Hot Solar” 27 Sep 2021
- New Strategies Needed to Sell Solar Heat for Mining 9 Sep 2021
- Auto Turbocharger to Power Solar-Heated Air for Industrial Drying 28 Aug 2021
- Can a new kind of CSP be a game changer? 9 Aug 2021
- A Nanotech Cermet Coating is Just One of Many Gen3 CSP Innovations 22 Jul 2021
- Beam-Down Demos First Direct Solar Storage at 1/2 MWh Scale 7 Jul 2021
- Synhelion, Wood Advance 100% Solar Hydrogen 23 Jun 2021
- How a Bank Resurrected SolarReserve’s Redstone CSP with ACWA Power 7 Jun 2021
- The Fastest Route to Commercialize Solar Hydrogen – is through Australian Copper Mines? 24 May 2021
- How a DOE Solar Desalination Award Detoured an Oil Industry Startup’s Plan 23 May 2021
- 100 GWh of Long Duration Energy Storage from MIT 14 Apr 2021
- For 100% Renewables, DOE Speeds-up Storage Policy 1 Apr 2021
- Could a Perovskite make Cheaper Solar Hydrogen? 10 Mar 2021
- Aalborg CSP to Retrofit Coal Plants into Thermal Energy Storage 28 Feb 2021
- MIT Proposes PV to Discharge Energy from 2,400°C Silicon Thermal Storage 15 Feb 2021
- First-of-its-Kind Experiment with Liquid Metals in Thermocline Energy Storage at Karlsruhe 27 Jan 2021
- HelioHeat Commercializes the DLR 1000°C Solar Receiver CentRec® 5 Jan 2021
- TEXEL Explores US Market for 2-Cent Thermal Energy Storage in Metal Hydrides 21 Dec 2020
- To Make Green Ammonia, US Researchers Design a Novel Solar Process 8 Dec 2020
- CEMEX and Synhelion to Demo Zero CO2 Cement 20 Nov 2020
- In South Africa and Spain, CSP is Meeting or Exceeding Projected Operation Targets 27 Oct 2020
- Aalborg CSP Cuts Tubing Costs up to 42% with an Asymmetric Receiver 21 Oct 2020
- At the SolarPACES Conference, Heliogen Introduces Solar Heat at 1 cent/kWh 13 Oct 2020
- Xavier Lara on How Spain’s Q4 Auction Can Achieve the 5 GW of CSP it Wants 17 Sep 2020
- Where Very Hot Solar Thermochemistry Research is Today: What’s Needed Next 7 Sep 2020
- Spanish Start-up Innovates Solar Steam Modules for Industries 21 Aug 2020
- Could Congress Commission a Government Agency Like WAPA to Build CSP? 11 Aug 2020
- Australian Researchers Assess the Commercial Viability of Solar Alumina Calcining 3 Aug 2020
- Promising Test Results for Molten Salts in Trough CSP 23 Jul 2020
- Industry Shares its Experience to Advance Next Generation CSP 9 Jul 2020
- Which is the Most Efficient Way to Make Solar Fuels from Methane? 17 Jun 2020
- Making Solar Hydrogen with a Side of Carbon Nanotubes 1 Jun 2020
- Morocco Pioneers PV with Thermal Storage at 800 MW Midelt CSP Project 25 Apr 2020
- How Much Land Would Solar Thermochemistry Need to make All Our Aviation Fuel? 20 Apr 2020
- Fred Morse: Go from Lowest Cost to Best Fit for a 100% Carbon Free Grid 3 Apr 2020
- At Synhelion, Solar Jet Fuels Get Ready for Take-off 30 Mar 2020
- Developers and Utilities Mull Solar Storage for a 100% Clean Energy Southwest 16 Mar 2020
- A New Way to Dry Cool Solar Thermal Power Plants – with Underground Air 11 Mar 2020
- Clean Tech investment challenge in commercializing innovations like HELIOtube 10 Feb 2020
- Irrigation Water Can First be Used to Cool a Solar Thermal Power Project 9 Feb 2020
- “Star” Receiver Could Cut Tower CSP Cost 11% 24 Jan 2020
- Brightsource Innovates a Solar-cured Coating for DEWA Tower CSP 18 Dec 2019
- A Novel CSP Heliostat Goes from Lab to Market in Just 5 Years 3 Dec 2019
- NREL Awarded $2.8 Million to Develop a Long-Duration Thermal Energy Storage Technology 14 Nov 2019
- Rebirth of SolarReserve’s 450 MW Likana Brings CSP Supply Chain Hope for Chile 29 Oct 2019
- Sodium-based Vast Solar Combines the Best of Trough & Tower CSP to Win our Innovation Award 18 Oct 2019
- Japan and Australia Test Solar Hydrogen Component 1 Oct 2019
- MENA Region Industries Could Heat for Less with Solar 21 Sep 2019
- Q&A: How Risk Mitigation Finance Can Cut CSP Costs 11 Sep 2019
- Novel CSP Design Combines the Solar Receiver with Thermal Energy Storage 11 Sep 2019
- Add Hydrogen Combustion to a Solar Reactor for Carbon-Free Mining and Mineral Processing 8 Aug 2019
- Could China’s Global Grid Idea Help Grow CSP? 10 Jul 2019
- Solar green hydrogen process that cuts costs 2 Jul 2019
- Designing Solar Furnaces to Make Biochars without Air Pollution 29 Jun 2019
- Start-Up VC Invests in Beam-Down Concentrator for Solar Fuel 5 Jun 2019
- Morocco Breaks New Record with 800 MW Midelt 1 CSP-PV at 7 Cents 24 May 2019
- VC-Funded Thermal “Battery” is Based on CSP Molten Salt Energy Storage 13 May 2019
- Make Carnot Batteries with Molten Salt Thermal Energy Storage in ex-Coal Plants 16 Apr 2019
- Study of Chile’s CSP Potential for Domestic Manufacturing 10 Apr 2019
- Shouhang and EDF to Test s-CO2 Cycle in Concentrated Solar Power 29 Mar 2019
- Australian Researchers Design a Solar Process for Algae-Derived Solar Fuel 28 Mar 2019
- Trucks Transport Hot Particles Storing Energy 1 Kilometer for Multi-Tower CSP? 7 Mar 2019
- Top Steelmaker Tests Thermal Energy Storage in Slag Byproduct to Cut CO2 12 Feb 2019
- China Made Solar PV Cheap – Is CSP Next? 22 Jan 2019
- Researchers Test Solar to Cut CO2 in Cement Processing 10 Jan 2019
- Study Investigates Solar District Cooling Potential for Saudi Arabia 19 Nov 2018
- Can California Really Meet its 100% Clean Energy Target? 16 Nov 2018
- How CSP Can Help Remove CO2 from air 22 Oct 2018
- Climate Policy that Actually Works: How Morocco is Meeting its Clean Energy Goals 21 Sep 2018
- Can Spain Revive the CSP Industry it Killed? 12 Sep 2018
- Researchers Seek Best s-CO2 Solar Desalination from Waste Heat 6 Sep 2018
- How Three Novel Technologies Trialled in the US Will Cut CSP Cost 18 Jul 2018
- Study: CSP Will Help China Cut Costs of Climate Action 17 Jul 2018
- What are the Pros and Cons of Longer Solar Contracts? 11 Jul 2018
- Artificial Vision Enables Solar Field Calibration Overnight 4 Jul 2018
- A Blueprint for 100% Solar Desalination 18 Jun 2018
- Eastern Morocco’s Concentrated Solar Power Potential Assessed 15 May 2018
- Researchers Reduce Intermittency in Solar Thermochemical Hydrogen Production 30 Apr 2018
- Path to a Booming Australian Solar Thermal Energy Market 3 Apr 2018
- Morocco’s Noor III Solar Tower CSP to Deliver Power by October 4 Mar 2018
- Scientists Test World’s First Solar Fuels Reactor for Night 12 Feb 2018
- Solar Heat to Make Power + Water for Namibia: Study 31 Jan 2018
- Particle Receivers to Get First Commercial Trial – in Saudi Arabia 18 Jan 2018
- Missing Link for Solar Hydrogen is… Ammonia? 7 Jan 2018
- How solar thermochemistry generates the greenest hydrogen 21 Dec 2017
- Researcher Pioneers Solar to Heat Crucial Steel Component 13 Dec 2017
- How Has Spain’s Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Performed? 30 Nov 2017
- GlassPoint Brings Gigantic 850 MWth Solar EOR to California 30 Nov 2017
- How Synhelion’s solar jet fuel started – an interview in 2017 15 Nov 2017
- All MENA CSP Now 7 Cents or Under Says ACWA Power 14 Nov 2017
- US DOE: CSP Could Provide Needed Flexibility and Reliability to Grid 6 Nov 2017
- Solar Thermal Power Prices have Dropped an Astonishing 50% in Six Months 29 Oct 2017
- Scientist Devises a Solar Reactor to Make Water and Oxygen from Moon Rocks 26 Oct 2017
- How Solar Peaker Plants Could Replace Gas Peakers 19 Oct 2017
- Solar Flux; from Bug to Feature 10 Oct 2017
- TuNur Night-time Solar Exports to EU for 10 cents – Q&A 18 Sep 2017
- Sandia Labs R&D Helped SolarReserve hit 6 Cents CSP 5 Sep 2017
- US DOE Funds Terrafore’s Phase Change Energy Storage Test 1 Sep 2017
- How Port Augusta Got the World’s Cheapest Solar Thermal Power 30 Aug 2017
- SolarReserve Breaks CSP Price Record with 6 Cent Contract 25 Aug 2017
- CSP to be Essential by 2050 …for Germany? 10 Aug 2017
- Why Chile Could Lead the World in CSP 26 Jul 2017
- Solar EOR a Big Win for GlassPoint 3 Jul 2017
- SolarPACES to Optimize Chile’s Clean Energy Grid 7 Jun 2017
- How an Artist Has Made CSP the “Default” Solar 1 May 2017
Recent Journal Publications
- Published at Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews – Assessing the sustainability impacts of concentrated solar power deployment in Europe in the context of global value chains 3 Jun 2023
- Published at Energies – Hybrid System of Photovoltaic and Solar Thermal Technologies for Industrial Process Heat 3 Jun 2023
- Published at Energy – Integrated design of solar concentrator and thermochemical reactor guided by optimal solar radiation distribution 2 Jun 2023
- Published at Solar Energy – Full-scale investigation of heliostat aerodynamics through wind and pressure measurements at a pentagonal heliostat 23 May 2023
- Published at Materials Today Energy – Strategic co-doping of ceria for improved oxidation kinetics in solar thermochemical fuel production 22 May 2023
- Published at Energy Storage and Saving – Design of a multi-inlet solar thermochemical reactor for steam methane reforming with improved performance 22 May 2023
- Published at Applied Energy – A novel high-efficiency solar thermochemical cycle for fuel production based on chemical-looping cycle oxygen removal 19 May 2023
- Published at ACS – Compositionally Complex Perovskite Oxides for Solar Thermochemical Water Splitting 6 May 2023
- Published at Solar Energy – Potential of solar thermochemical water-splitting cycles: A review 24 Apr 2023
CSP News Briefs
- Spain now needs CSP for grid stability – study 9 Jun 2023
- DOE announces 7 awards to cut heliostat costs 4 Jun 2023
- Register for the 26th Cologne Solar Colloquium June 22 26 May 2023
- SENER’s 110 MW of new Spanish CSP could start by year-end near its Gemasolar plant 25 May 2023
- Solar reactor attains over 20% efficiency in hydrogen production 19 May 2023
- The EuroTrough helps China Shipbuilding’s 100 MW CSP project set record 9 May 2023
- Power China’s 50 MW Gonghe Tower CSP has a record month 9 May 2023
- Abstract Submission Period Extended to May 12 for SolarPACES 2023 Conference 5 May 2023
- 100 MW CSP Tower operating in 700 MW DEWA project in Dubai 24 Apr 2023
- China prioritizes CSP connection and dispatch in new rule 19 Apr 2023
- Two more Chinese pilot CSP projects report monthly generating records 13 Apr 2023
- ETH seeks Assistant Professor of Solar Energy Engineering (Tenure Track) 6 Apr 2023
- CSIRO’s Renewable Energy Storage Roadmap: CSP lowest cost 2 Apr 2023
- Women in CSP networking event on March 15 midday CET 13 Mar 2023
- DOE seeks stakeholder R&D advice to advance solar fuels 9 Mar 2023
- 2022 Blue Book on China’s CSP industry launched 8 Mar 2023
- Sandia breaks ground on its Gen-3 particle-based CSP tech demo 18 Feb 2023
- Vast Solar going public with NETC on the NY Stock Exchange as Vast 15 Feb 2023
- DOE allots $1.6 billion to decarbonize coal country 14 Feb 2023
- Women in CSP group attracts over 100 initial members, starts website 11 Feb 2023
- Green hydrogen shipping breakthrough: HySiLabs 10 Feb 2023
- 50 MW Hami Tower CSP project with novel STELLIO heliostats commissioned in China 9 Feb 2023
- US and China lead in thermal energy storage patents 17 Jan 2023
- 1414 Degrees readies silicon for its high temperature thermal energy storage 8 Jan 2023
- Heliocon seeks heliostat cost reduction to $50 per square meter 24 Dec 2022
- New DOE solar technologies funding for early stage CSP / CST direct heat 14 Dec 2022
- DLR study: potential for low cost solar fuels in the MENA region 10 Dec 2022
- Solar furnace to melt steel at 2000°C for Swiss recycler Panatère 7 Dec 2022
- The race for solar megaprojects in North Africa that attracts Europeans 6 Dec 2022
- Shanghai Electric CSP starts sending overnight solar power to Dubai grid 4 Dec 2022
- Hydroxide molten salts tested in 20 MW thermal energy storage trial 25 Nov 2022
- Auction failure curtails CSP in Spain’s Ecological Transition 19 Nov 2022
- China now has 30 CSP projects with thermal energy storage underway 9 Oct 2022
- Abengoa wins Solar Project of the Year award for 600 MW trough CSP at NOOR 4 Oct 2022
- Solar heat to decarbonize industries gets $13 million boost from DOE 1 Oct 2022
- SolarPACES Conference Sept 27-30 Plenary Highlights 17 Sep 2022
- China seeks bids to build nine CSP plants 17 Sep 2022
- Synhelion produces first solar syngas in Wood’s industrial-scale reforming reactor 20 Aug 2022
- Another 400 MW of Chinese CSP Starts in Xinjiang Province 25 Jul 2022
- Spain Finally Names CSP Auction Date: October 25 Jul 2022
- Submit Particle-CSP Papers for Solar Energy’s Special Issue 22 Jul 2022
- 100 MW of CSP+8 Hrs Storage Breaks Ground in Xinjiang 21 Jul 2022
- Rondo’s Thermal Storage to Decarbonize TITAN Cement 13 Jul 2022
- SUPCON CSP sets World’s First Annual Record for Molten Salt Tower Generation 11 Jul 2022
- Webinar: What is behind China’s CSP Records and Growth? 4 Jul 2022
- Webinar: Presentation of Blue Book of China’s CSP Industry 2021 22 Jun 2022
- Cosin Breaks Ground on 100 MW CSP and Thermal Storage in Gansu Province 21 Jun 2022
- Blue Book of China’s CSP Industry 2021 Published 15 Jun 2022
- Three Gorges Seeks EPC Bids for 200 MW of CSP Under 5 cents/kWh 14 Jun 2022
- 1,500 MW of Glasspoint Solar Steam to Decarbonize Saudi Aluminum Production 11 Jun 2022
- China’s Curtailments go up as Renewables Growth Explodes 8 Jun 2022
- DOE Invests Half a Billion to De-risk Cheaper Energy Storage 18 May 2022
- ATA Webinar: Capitalize on the Coming US Grid Storage Boom 13 May 2022
- NREL scientists advance solar thermo-chemical hydrogen (STCH) production 8 May 2022
- US DOE: Submit Abstracts by May 6 for SolarPACES 2022 29 Apr 2022
- China’s CSP at Hami Expected to be 250 MW by 2025 28 Mar 2022
- How Europe can Cut Natural Gas Imports from Russia significantly within a Year 9 Mar 2022
- ACWA Power’s Redstone CSP Draws Down Debt in 9th Month of Construction 22 Feb 2022
- April 11 Deadline to Tender for 200MW CSP in Botswana 22 Feb 2022
- Info on SETO 2022 Funding for CSP/CST Technologies 9 Feb 2022
- NREL Starts SETO-Funded Study of Wind Impacts on Solar Collectors 12 Jan 2022
- Vast Solar Consortium Patents Flexitank; Prevents Thermal Storage Leaks 9 Dec 2021
- “Sun-to-Liquids” Solar Fuels R&D Wins Recognition at Cop26 24 Nov 2021
- Namibia Readies Bidding for CSP in 2022 24 Nov 2021
- These 25 Advanced CSP & CST Technologies to Share $33 Million US DOE Funding 20 Oct 2021
- IEA Report: Raise Investment and R&D to Reach Green Hydrogen Goal by 2050 7 Oct 2021
- Spain Seeks Bids for 200 MW of CSP in 2021 Auction 6 Oct 2021
- DLR-CSP Services Solar Flux Measurement System Wins International CSP Tech Award 5 Oct 2021
- Solar Fuels Pioneer Synhelion Acquires Smart Mirror Expert Heliokon 28 Sep 2021
- Masdar City Start-up Seramic Materials Launches 100% Recycled Thermal Energy Storage 23 Sep 2021
- China Begins $3 Billion Golmud Project 3.3GW CSP+PV+Thermal Storage 19 Sep 2021
- View the 2021 SolarPACES Conference Program Now 25 Aug 2021
- SolarPACES 2021 Registration Now Open 9 Aug 2021
- RFP to Demo Long Duration Energy Storage Innovations 13 Jul 2021
- Submit Papers on Solar Thermochemical Innovations to “Energies” Special Issue by Sept 1 8 Jul 2021
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Pitz-Paal receives Energy Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 29 Jun 2021
- “Solar Power Around the Clock” report released by the German Association for Concentrated Solar Power (DCSP) 22 Jun 2021
- Bill Gates-backed CSP “Sunlight Refinery” Heliogen Raises $108 Million 15 Jun 2021
- New DLR Study Answers All Your Questions About CSP & Solar Thermal 14 Jun 2021
- Thermal Storage Test Milestone at the 700 MW DEWA CSP Plant 12 Jun 2021
- Chile Considers Converting 30 Coal Plants into “Carnot” Batteries 2 Jun 2021
- Sign Up for June 17th Cologne Solar Colloquium: Industrial Heat Technologies 18 May 2021
- 100 MW Redstone Solar with 12 Hours Daily Thermal Energy Storage Closes Financing 10 May 2021
- Balloons Test Environmental Safety of Advanced Solar Power Tower Tech 22 Apr 2021
- The Cerro Dominador CSP Project Has Synchronized to the Grid in Chile 13 Apr 2021
- New DOE Funding for CSP: Webinar April 12 25 Mar 2021
- SolarPACES Lifetime Award Winner Professor Valeriano Ruiz has passed away 15 Mar 2021
- Long Duration Energy Storage gets New R&D Lab in Biden’s DOE 11 Mar 2021
- March 1 Deadline for Sandia R&D Funding Awards for CSP Technologies 20 Feb 2021
- EuroTrough Helped Cut Ramp-Up Time of China’s 100 MW Urat CSP 16 Feb 2021
- Botswana is Now Looking for Bids to Build 200 MW of CSP 22 Jan 2021
- Long-duration Thermal Energy Storage Startup Azelio Wins First Commercial Order 28 Dec 2020
- Saudi Government Raises Ownership to Half of Global Solar Leader ACWA Power 3 Dec 2020
- Bokpoort Breaks a Solar Record – CSP Operating Round the Clock 13 Days: 28 Oct 2020
- Nov 5 Webinar: Abengoa on Retrofitting CSP Plants for Intermittent Renewable Energy Storage 27 Oct 2020
- ATA Insights Webinar | CSP from Dusk to Dawn: Blueprint for 200 MW Tower 26 Oct 2020
- US DOE Announces Quarterfinalists in $9 Million Solar Desalination Prize 19 Oct 2020
- ACWA Power’s Bokpoort Sets New Production Record as South African Load-shedding Persists 10 Sep 2020
- Solar Heat for Cleaning Wastewater and Recovering Clean Water 1 Sep 2020
- SolarPACES Award Winner Vast Solar Plans a 50MW 24/7 Australian Solar Project 24 Jul 2020
- China Wins First CSP for Hydro-Rich Zambia as Drought Increases 22 Jul 2020
- ATA Webinar July 30: The Present and Future of CSP and Thermal Storage from the European Perspective 20 Jul 2020
- IEA Clean Energy Transitions Summit Convenes 80% of Global Emitters Online July 9th CEST 8 Jul 2020
- World’s First Utility-Scale Molten Salt Fresnel CSP Plant Connects to China’s Grid 30 Jun 2020
- Spain’s First CSP to Get Novel Thermal+Electric Storage Retrofit 17 Jun 2020
- Switzerland’s International Airport to Buy Synhelion’s First Solar Fuel 28 May 2020
- Applications Open for US DOE $9 Million Solar Thermal Desalination Prize 29 Apr 2020
- COVID Pandemic Announcement: SolarPACES Conference 27 Apr 2020
- California Looks for Long-Duration Renewable Energy Storage Contracts for 2026 12 Apr 2020
- Online Conference April 1-2: World Bank MENA Concentrating Solar for Power and Heat 17 Mar 2020
- Generation from Spain’s Existing 2.3 GW of CSP Showing Steady Annual Increases 3 Mar 2020
- China’s Supcon Achieves Over 105% of Projected Output in 24/7 Solar 28 Feb 2020
- Concentrated Solar Heat to Desalinate Seawater at Saudi Neom City 16 Feb 2020
- Real-Time Sky Imaging Cameras to Speed Up CSP Response Time 24 Jan 2020
- Sener Offers to Expand its CSP as South Africa’s Coal Plant Blackouts Continue 18 Dec 2019
- Evening Peak Solar CSP Projected to Undercut Gas in Chile’s Open Auctions 28 Nov 2019
- Bill Gates Funds A Second Concentrated Solar Thermal Startup: Heliogen 19 Nov 2019
- Got Ideas on How to Commercialize sCO2 With CSP? Tell Uncle Sam 12 Nov 2019
- US Lists $30 Million in 2019 CSP Research Awards 7 Nov 2019
- Logistics Firm Chooses Solar for Steam Washing at Port of Antwerp 30 Oct 2019
- China Connects Luneng, its 5th CSP Project in Climate Push 22 Sep 2019
- Supcon Just Connected 50 MW of Tower CSP to China’s Grid at Record Speed 20 Sep 2019
- Morocco’s Ourazazate Noor III CSP Tower Exceeds Performance Targets 27 May 2019
- China to Finance and Shanghai Electric to Build CSP for ACWA Power’s 950MW Dubai Solar Plant 24 Apr 2019
- May 7 Deadline for DOE $33 Million for CSP R&D in Storage, Manufacturing and Autonomous Technologies 10 Apr 2019
- South Africa OKs Start-up of SENER’s Day-to-Night Solar Thermal Energy: Ilanga-1 6 Dec 2018
- First-Ever Conference on the Role of CSP in Decarbonising the Mediterranean and Middle East: Cyprus and Online 21 Nov 2018
- Glasspoint Signs up 2nd Oman Solar EOR Project at Twice the Size: 2 GWth 13 Nov 2018
- IEA: China Overtaking US in Concentrated Solar Power by 2023 18 Oct 2018
- China’s First Commercial CSP Project Has Begun Operation 11 Oct 2018
- Final Testing for 150 MW Noor III Tower CSP 26 Sep 2018
- ARPA-E Awardees Aim to Store Energy for up to 4 Days 19 Sep 2018
- SolarReserve’s Aurora Solar Project Signs MOU for 13,000 Aussie Heliostats 18 Sep 2018
- Q&A on Chile’s CSP Lessons Learned: Carlos Arenas Coronil 6 Sep 2018
- Salt Melting Starts at SENER’s Kathu Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Project in South Africa 3 Aug 2018
- China’s First Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Has Connected to the Grid 3 Jul 2018
- Noor III 150 MW Tower CSP starts Commissioning in Morocco 7 Jun 2018
- China to Extend Deadline for Late CSP Demos – But Add Penalty 25 May 2018
- Chile’s 210 MW Cerro Dominador CSP-PV Project Signs Financing 19 May 2018
- Morocco Predicts Price Drop at Midelt CSP-PV Hybrid 18 May 2018
- SolarReserve Seeks Permit to Add 70MW PV to Aurora CSP 10 May 2018
- Abengoa Awarded Two New CSP Projects in China 10 May 2018
- Marrakesh Conference Presented Solutions for Reducing Water Use in CSP 27 Apr 2018
- IEA CO2 Report – Renewables Meet 25% of Global Demand Growth 14 Apr 2018
- Redstone CSP Contract Signed After 2-Year Delay 4 Apr 2018
- Here are the Solar Fuels Captured CO2 Emissions Will Make 30 Mar 2018
- US Clean Energy R&D Gets Biggest Funding Increase Since 2009 25 Mar 2018
- Libya is Latest MENA nation to Plan CSP 21 Mar 2018
- SolarReserve Splitting Aurora’s Transmission Cost with Aussie Mining Co. 9 Mar 2018
- Steps for Solar Resource Assessment in CSP Projects: China 9 Mar 2018
- ContourGlobal Buying Acciona’s CSP in Spain for €1.09 billion 1 Mar 2018
- Kathu CSP Plant Successfully Connected to South Africa’s Grid 1 Mar 2018
- Glasspoint Inaugurates First Four Units of Miraah in Oman 14 Feb 2018
- China Plans 2 GW CSP Plant in Mongolia 8 Feb 2018
- CSP Capacity Grew 2% to 5.13 GW in 2017 8 Feb 2018
- ACWA Power Ready for $1 Billion IPO 28 Jan 2018
- Natixis: Open Auctions, Market Confidence Driving CSP Price Records 28 Jan 2018
- IRENA Report 2017 Notes CSP’s “Spectacular” Cost Reductions 20 Jan 2018
- Morocco’s Noor II Begins Synchronization to Grid 14 Jan 2018
- CSP puts end to Morocco electricity blackouts 11 Jan 2018
- SolarReserve Achieves Key Milestone in Development of South Australia’s First Solar Thermal Power Station 10 Jan 2018
- Australia Seeking Solar Hydrogen Research to Fund 8 Jan 2018
- TuNur Applied to Export CSP to EU at 8.73 Cents 29 Dec 2017
- ATA’s New Webinar on Morocco’s Solar Opportunities Jan 22 22 Dec 2017
- Study Finds Permit-friendly CSP Sites in California Wastelands 20 Dec 2017
- Abengoa’s Xina Completes First Three Months in South Africa 19 Dec 2017
- Eskom to Sign Long-delayed Redstone CSP “in Next Week” 14 Dec 2017
- New Solar Thermal Energy Storage Idea Wins 2017 PowerUp! Competition 12 Dec 2017
- Bokpoort Breaks A Solar Thermal Energy Production Record 7 Dec 2017
- World’s Largest Solar Reactor Will Split H2O into Hydrogen 6 Dec 2017
- Could Transmission in Railroad Corridors Enable More US CSP? 5 Dec 2017
- Oil Industry Survey Finds GlassPoint Style Solar Thermal Steam is Only Future for EOR 2 Dec 2017
- Experts Predict More CSP Under 5 Cents in 2018 2 Dec 2017
- Siemens Trials Thermal Storage in Rocks for Wind Power 30 Nov 2017
- DOE Solar Desalination Concept Funding Deadline December 4 30 Nov 2017
- Power China Awards EPC Bid to SUPCON for 50 MW Tower CSP 24 Nov 2017
- KaXu Solar One Recognized in UN Climate Change Award at COP23 21 Nov 2017
- DLR Researchers Commission High Temperature Receiver with Ceramic Particle Storage 14 Nov 2017
- Splitting Water to Hydrogen using 10,000 “Suns” of Concentrated Solar Power 13 Nov 2017
- Namibia’s Outstanding CSP Potential Could “Light up Southern Africa” 12 Nov 2017
- IEA: Dramatic Drop in Fossil Fuel Investment Since 2014 9 Nov 2017
- Upcoming ATA Webinar: Solar for commercial and industrial (C&I) heat 8 Nov 2017
- Glasspoint starts up 1 GW Solar Thermal EOR on Time and on Budget 3 Nov 2017
- Xina Solar One CSP plant completes first month of operation 1 Nov 2017
- 38 Bids From 24 Energy Firms in Chile’s Energy Auctions 29 Oct 2017
- SolarReserve Bids CSP Under 5 Cents in Chilean Auction 29 Oct 2017
- Will Molten Salt Outdo Batteries for Grid-Tied Storage? 28 Oct 2017
- Huge Jump in CSP Projects for the MENA Region 27 Oct 2017
- New Fractal CSP Receivers Absorb Sunlight Better 25 Oct 2017
- Ghana to Tap its Abundant Solar Thermal Energy Potential 24 Oct 2017
- New Chance for US CSP? California Outlaws Gas-Fired Peaker Plants 13 Oct 2017
- Solar Thermal Molten Salt Storage Among Bids into Queensland Storage Tender 12 Oct 2017
- How we Talk About Climate Change Matters 3 Oct 2017
- New Solar Collector Design Aims to Bring CSP Costs to Record Lows 3 Oct 2017
- Abengoa in Positive Financial Shape After Restructuring 1 Oct 2017
- How ACWA Bid Record Low Cost CSP in Dubai 22 Sep 2017
- Dispatchable Solar CSP Broke Price Records in 2017 21 Sep 2017
- ACWA Power / Shanghai Power Win Dubai Solar Auction with 7.3 Cents CSP 16 Sep 2017
- China’s Shouhang and CNLNPC to Invest $2.3 Billion (USD) in CSP 15 Sep 2017
- China Releases Shortlist for 1st 20 Demo CSP Projects 13 Sep 2017
- SunShot Focuses $62 Million on CSP Cost Reduction 12 Sep 2017
- China’s First Commercial CSP Project at 50 MW Begins Test Run 12 Sep 2017
- SunShot to Fund Solar Thermal Desalination Research 11 Sep 2017
- South Africa’s Reneged Renewable Contracts to Lead to Lawsuits 10 Sep 2017
- TuNur Revives Sahara-Europe CSP Export Idea 7 Sep 2017