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
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
Solar Could Supply Heat for Industry with a Heat Purchase Agreement 22 Sep 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
A Novel Way to Cut Cost in 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
Q & A: DLR’s Christian Sattler on the Role of Solar Thermochemistry in Green Hydrogen Production 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
Desert Solar to Fuel Centuries of Air Travel 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
SolarPACES Announcements
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
October 2018: SolarPACES ExCo Selects a New Logo 17 Oct 2018
New IEA Report: Renewable Energy for Industry 10 Nov 2017
SolarPACES ExCo elects Robert Pitz-Paal as new Chair 5 Oct 2017
SolarPACES 2017 Conference Presentations and Papers Now Available to Registered Participants 5 Oct 2017
CSP News Briefs
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
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