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All Chinese CSP Projects
 Clink here to enlarge map. China’s CSP projects online from 2012-present, by Province: QINGHAI 10MW Tower CSP+2.5 HRS TES, developed by Supcon Solar (now Cosin Solar), at Delingha, Qinghai (2013) NREL CSP Focus 50MW Trough CSP+9 HRS TES, developed by China...
Thermal Energy Storage Working Group
General Coordination:Â Esther Rojas, CIEMAT, Spain If you are willing to participate in any of the following Activity Lines, do not hesitate to get in contact with the corresponding coordinator of the activity or with Esther Rojas (general coordinator) Objective...
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China
Latest online: 2025 Nine new projects came online in 2025; all but one are Tower, for the details see the new SolarPACES-CSTA Database Three recent projects online in recent years include innovations now at scale #1: Huidong New Energy 110 MW Beam-down Tower CSP This...
Spain
Latest CSP in Development: 2023 Sener Solgest-1 110 MW trough CSP Latest online: 2013 from the first round of CSP in Spain that culminated with 2.3 GW: 150 MW Termosol I, II, III, trough CSP, with 9 hours of storage: in operation since Total CSP in Operation in Spain:...
Israel
Latest Online:2019 Ashalim 230 MW tower and trough CSP SolarPACES-NREL database: All plant details on the Ashalim CSP project that combines tower (Ashalim/Megalim 121 MW) and trough (Ashalim/Negev 110 MW) CSP with thermal energy storage in molten salts. . Earliest...
Chile
Latest Online: 2022 Cerro Dominador 110 MW SolarPACES-NREL database: All plant details on the 110 MW Cerro Dominador tower CSP project The 110 MW Cerro Dominador tower CSP project with 17.5 hours of thermal energy storage first synchronized to the grid in 2021 and was...
United Arab Emirates
Latest CSP online: 2024 DEWA "NOOR" 700 MW Tower & Trough CSP project SolarPACES-NREL database: CSP plants in the United Arab Emirates The world's largest CSP complex will be the 700 MW solar project at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, about 95%...
Papers Published in Peer Reviewed Journals
https://www.solarpaces.org/category/latest-in/recently-published-csp-papers-journals/
Current CSP Research Funding Opportunities
FEB 2024 https://www.solarpaces.org/doe-has-announced-new-funding-to-advance-large-scale-csp/ JAN 2024 Apply by March 6 Topic Areas SIPS Topic Area 1: CSP (7-12 projects, $400,000 each) This topic area will support small, focused projects investigating the...
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The SolarPACES Awards
The SolarPACES Awards honor the personal engagement of individuals and institutions that significantly contribute to the deployment of CSP technology. Two types of Awards can be given: 1. Technology Innovation Award Deadline: 31 July, 2021...
Map of CSP projects globally by Technology and current Status
Note: This map is as of 2015. For current status see the SolarPACES-NREL database   View by operational status in 2015 - Red; Currently Non-Operational, Blue; Operating, Green; Under Construction, Yellow; Under Development (NB; slide sideways to view new projects in...
Women in Concentrated Solar
Optical Properties Working Group
General Coordination: Aránzazu Fernández-GarcÃa, CIEMAT-PSA, Spain (arantxa.fernandez@psa.es) Objective Define and improve the measurement methods and protocols of optical properties of solar materials (including reflectors –clean and soiled-, receiver particles,...
Current Award Winners
Winners of the 2022 SolarPACES Awards: SolarPACES Chair Gilles Flamant presented the award to Dr. Christoph Falter, on behalf of Bauhaus Luftfahrt, Dr. Johannes Grobbel, on behalf of DLR, Dr. Alon Lidor, on behalf of ETH Zurich and Dr. Charles-Alexis Asselineau, on...
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