To all relevant entities and individuals: In order to continuously demonstrate the unique appeal of concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies, capture scenes of construction, operationandmaintenance work and daily life at CSP power stations, and advance cultural...
Source: Press Release Zurich, September 8, 2026: Synhelion has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Morocco with the aim to develop a large-scale commercial synthetic fuel plant in the country’s southern Tan-Tan province. The facility is planned...
Source: China Solar Thermal Alliance: The core heat absorption system installation has been successfully completed for the Tibet Development & Investment Anduo Tushuo 100 MW tower solar thermal project, constructed by POWERCHINA SEPCO1 in Tibet. (Map) All 16 solar...
Synhelion says they have hired the engineering firm Saipem to carry out preliminary engineering work for a commercial-scale synthetic fuel plant at an RWE industrial site in Hürth-Knapsack, Germany. The plant is expected to produce 30,000 tons annually of renewable...
Dongfang Boiler's first milestone a success at world's highest CSP tower project Dongfang Boiler has achieved "first light" at the 100MW Amdo Tushuo tower concentrated solar power plant in Tibet, the China Solar Thermal Alliance reported on Aug. 27. This involves...
Source: CSTA On August 20, the 100MW linear Fresnel solar thermal project of the CTGR Xinjiang Hami Integrated Energy Demonstration Project, EPC contracted by CPECC Northwest for China Three Gorges Renewables, successfully completed its 14-day trial operation...
Source: The Conversation By Craig Mcgregor; Director of the Stellenbosch University Solar Thermal Energy Research Group South Africa's coal-fired power stations are retiring. The country must replace a huge amount of electricity over the next two decades. Currently,...
Two years of plant DAWN: proving synthetic fuel production at industrial scale Source: Synhelion - Published in 2026 In 2024, we switched on plant DAWN for the first time. Since starting production in late summer that year, we have gained invaluable operational...
Source: ETH The production of cement ranks as one of the world’s largest industrial sources of CO₂. A new study now shows how cement production could in future be used to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere – based on a technology utilising lime. Cement is one of the most...
According to CGN, the plant's mirror field covers a staggering total aperture area of 3.7 million square meters, comprising three 1.1-million-square-meter tower fields and one 400,000-square-meter trough field. Source: China Daily China's 350-megawatt concentrated...
Qingdao, China — July 2, 2026 — SEPCOIII has commissioned a new flexible assembly line for high-precision wind-resistant heliostats at its Hongfeng Equipment subsidiary, adding standardized, large-scale heliostat manufacturing capacity. According to SEPCOIII's...
[Ed: This plant incorporates multiple innovations, not only that outside China, Fresnel projects have never been built at this scale, and that even within China, this is only the second ever built at 100MW following China General Nuclear's 100MW Fresnel in Gansu...
[Ed: This 100 MW CSP Tower project at Jixi, Baicheng is one of two 100 MW Tower CSP plants to be connected to one of China's Ultra High Voltage (UHV) DC lines, the Lu Gu line, dedicated for extremely long-distance transmission of renewable energy. The 1.4GW New Energy...
The 350MW solar project at Wutumeiren in Qinghai Province by CGN will combine 3 Towers with Trough CSP [Ed: Till now, Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) using parabolic Trough technology has been limited in efficiency by the temperature limit of the heat transfer oil to...
Source: Powder2Power The Powder2Power project has reached a major milestone at the Themis solar tower in Targasonne, France, where the project MW-scale fluidised particle-based Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) prototype is approaching completion. Over the past...
Source: CSPPlaza On May 19th, the Hami Molten Salt Tower 50MW CSP Project generated 1,167.6 MWh in a single day, its all-time highest since commencing operation, according to offtaker Shenergy Power. China Solar Thermal Alliance had noted a previous one-day record of...
Source: CSTA via Brazil Energy From CGN Brazil: In partnership with the Government of PiauÃ, we are advancing the structuring of an innovative initiative for the development of concentrated solar power (CSP) technology with thermal storage — still unprecedented in...
Source:CSTA [CSTA News we missed from January 2026:Ed] On 29 December, China Energy's first tower concentrating solar power (CSP) project—the 100 MW Qingyu HVDC Phase-II plant of Qinghai Gonghe Co.—was successfully synchronized to the grid. The plant is the group's...
On April 30, a major milestone was achieved at the world’s highest-altitude concentrated solar power (CSP) tower project—the Tushuo 100 MW CSP plant in Amdo County, Tibet—where all 15,927 heliostats manufactured by Dongfang Boiler have been successfully delivered. As...
Source: Jennifer ZhangDeputy Editor-in-Chief at ESPLAZA&CSPPLAZA With the rapid growth of emerging energy storage markets such as concentrated solar power (CSP) and thermal power plant flexibility retrofits, the commercial deployment of molten salt energy storage...
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