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Another 400 MW of Chinese CSP Starts in Xinjiang Province
[ED: All four projects follow China's renewables scale-up plan of 1 GW renewables projects, where 100 MW of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) is co-located with 900 MW of Photovoltaic (PV) in order to provide thermal energy storage, to extend the hours of solar...
Spain Finally Names CSP Auction Date: October
(Montel) Spain plans to auction 520 MW of renewable energy capacity on 25 October amid its ongoing effort to curb carbon emissions. The auction will award 140 MW for photovoltaic projects below 5 MW, 220 MW for solar thermal, 140 MW for biomass and 20 MW for other...
Submit Particle-CSP Papers for Solar Energy’s Special Issue
Particle-based Solar Energy Capture and Storage for Concentrated Solar Power Particle-based solar thermal energy storage (TES) coupled to concentrated solar power (CSP) is an attractive pathway towards operating at elevated temperatures while extending electricity...
100 MW of CSP+8 Hrs Storage Breaks Ground in Xinjiang
July 18, 2022 Xinjiang: The Xinhua Power Generation Company held a groundbreaking ceremony, together with Bortala Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, celebrating the start of the firm's 1 GW new solar energy project at Bozhou, located on the north side of G219 National...
Vast Solar to grow Port Augusta CSP to 150 MW at old SolarReserve site
When SolarReserve proposed a 150 MW tower Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) power plant for Port Augusta, the firm was fresh off completing Crescent Dunes, the world’s first attempt at utility scale tower CSP with storage. The startup was unable to get funding to build...
Rondo’s Thermal Storage to Decarbonize TITAN Cement
Press Release OAKLAND, Calif. - July 13, 2022 - TITAN Cement Group joins decarbonization and electrification investment leaders, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Energy Impact Partners, in supporting Rondo Energy (“Rondo”) through its recent Series A financing round...
SUPCON CSP sets World’s First Annual Record for Molten Salt Tower Generation
As of July 5, 2022, Cosin Solar's pilot project the SUPCON Delingha 50MW Molten Salt Tower CSP Plant generated 755 MWh of electricity in a single day. With this latest single-day generating record, the plant has now achieved an annual record as well. In just 11...
China Announces Another 1.3 GW of CSP with 12,000 MWh of Thermal Storage
In January this year, three of China's provinces; Gansu, Qinghai and Jilin, already announced a combined total of 1.1 GW of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) projects for completion by 2024. These are already hiring EPCs and breaking ground. Now the province of Xinjiang...
Webinar: What is behind China’s CSP Records and Growth?
https://youtu.be/wdC5cXR-7M8 What is the current status of China's CSP projects? Here Fengli Du of China Solar Thermal Alliance reveals the data on China's CSP projects to date and underway in this webinar, hosted by SolarPACES Secretariat Christoph Richter, and now...
Webinar: Presentation of Blue Book of China’s CSP Industry 2021
Zoom Webinar: Presentation of Blue Book of China's CSP Industry 2021 Date and Time: June 27, 2022, 14:00-14:45 CEST (Central European Summer Time) Agenda: Opening: Christoph Richter, Executive Secretary SolarPACES Introductory Comments: Zhifeng Wang, Chairman of China...
Cosin Breaks Ground on 100 MW CSP and Thermal Storage in Gansu Province
Jinta County, Gansu Province: The Jinta Zhongguang Solar Energy 100 MW Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project has broken ground, meeting the initial construction milestone by beginning concrete work for the receiver tower foundation. This 100MW CSP project was...
Blue Book of China’s CSP Industry 2021 Published
The Blue Book on China's CSP Industry 2021 lays out current detail on the performance of the current Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) projects in China, and the scale-up plan as China increases its overall renewable energy percentage on the grid. The Blue Book includes...
Three Gorges Seeks EPC Bids for 200 MW of CSP Under 5 cents/kWh
Source: email from Sunny Sun; CSPFocus China Three Gorges New Energy has issued the bidding announcement on the EPC of two 100MW CSP projects, both are located in Qinghai province, northwest of China. According to the announcement (in Chinese), both projects are...
Deadline for SolarPACES 2022 Technology Innovation Award is July 31
Apply for the SolarPACES Awards The call for the prestigious SolarPACES Technology Innovation Award and the Lifetime Award is now open until July 31, 2022. The awards honor the personal engagement of individuals and institutions that significantly contribute to the...
1,500 MW of Glasspoint Solar Steam to Decarbonize Saudi Aluminum Production
[Ed: GlassPoint's solar steam technology won the SolarPACES Technology Innovation Award for 2016] A Saudi Arabian firm has signed an MOU with the California-based firm GlassPoint to build the world’s biggest solar thermal steam producing plant there. The facility will...
Paper Shows How Dispatchable CSP Can Solve the EU Gas Crisis
Replacing flexible gas before baseload coal is the EU’s new focus. This makes the case for the dispatchable solar; CSP much stronger.
China’s Curtailments go up as Renewables Growth Explodes
Need for energy storage increases as China overshoots renewable deployment
Bill Gates-funded startup Rondo turns Solar or Wind into Heat
Thermal energy storage is cheap but it’s expensive turning heat back into electricity. Rondo Energy instead proposes to sell the heat.
SolarPACES 2020 Proceedings Now Published with AIP
AIP, the American Institute of Physics, has published the SolarPACES 2020 conference proceedings, volume number 2445. (The 2020 SolarPACES Conference was held online during the pandemic.) All accepted papers are freely accessible on the AIP website and contain an ISBN...
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- Researchers create a digital twin to run DAWN, Synhelion’s solar fuels plant
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