ExCo Representative
Somila Xosa
Department of Science and Technology
Somila.Xosa(at)dst.gov.za
ExCo Alternate
Vikesh Rajpaul
Eskom
RajpauVI(at)eskom.co.za
South Africa
CSP News & Analysis
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 and Top Hydrogen Firm Advance Solar Hydrogen 23 Jun 2021
How a Bank Resurrected SolarReserve’s Redstone CSP with ACWA Power 7 Jun 2021
Fastest Solar Hydrogen is for the Copper Market 2 Jun 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
A Solar Process Like Gas Reforming Makes Green Hydrogen Cheaper 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
CSP Tech Explainers
How CSP Works: Tower, Trough, Fresnel or Dish
Solar Can Make Carbon Neutral Aircraft Fuel from CO2 + H2O
Q & A: DLR’s Christian Sattler on the Role of Solar Thermochemistry in Green Hydrogen Production
How CSP’s Thermal Energy Storage Works
How Solar Peaker Plants Could Replace Gas Peakers
CSP Doesn’t Compete With PV – it Competes with Gas
SolarPACES Announcements
New Deadline June 22nd for Abstract Submissions for SolarPACES 2021 15 Jun 2021
SolarPACES 2021 – First Announcement and Call for Papers 14 May 2021
Program for the 2020 SolarPACES Conference is Now Online 19 Sep 2020
SolarPACES 2020 Online Registration is Open 12 Aug 2020
SolarPACES Conference, Deadlines and the COVID Pandemic 30 Apr 2020
SolarPACES 2018 Proceedings Now Published with AIP 30 Jul 2019
SolarPACES 2017 Conference Proceedings Now Published with AIP 14 Nov 2018
CSP News Briefs
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
TuNur CEO Kevin Sara: Why Invest in Concentrating Solar Power? 12 Aug 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
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