Bokpoort’s thermal storage also powered the grid during the critical evening peak of 4pm – 10pm daily with about 82% Peak Hour Load Factor
CSP News Briefs
Solar Heat for Cleaning Wastewater and Recovering Clean Water
Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technology is being successfully applied to treat wastewater effectively and do so while driving down costs and lower carbon emissions. Source: Rioglass Wastewater treatment is an increasingly complex and resource intensive process. Many...
SolarPACES Award Winner Vast Solar Plans a 50MW 24/7 Australian Solar Project
Australian solar thermal developer Vast Solar has unveiled plans to take its technology into the mainstream, unveiling a $600 million proposal to build a “baseload” solar plant in Mt Isa that will combine solar thermal, solar PV, battery storage and fast-acting gas...
China Wins First CSP for Hydro-Rich Zambia as Drought Increases
The Zambian subsidiary of the Chinese giant Sinohydro has been chosen to carry out the civil engineering work for the construction of the Kalulushi solar concentration plant (SCP) in the copper belt province. Chinese state-owned Sinohydro is the world's 14th largest...
ATA Webinar July 30: The Present and Future of CSP and Thermal Storage from the European Perspective
How do the big objectives announced by the European Commission turn into actionable projects for renewables and storage of hydrogen in the different country members? Which programs that apply to CSP and thermal storage are currently being discussed in Brussels? How...
IEA Clean Energy Transitions Summit Convenes 80% of Global Emitters Online July 9th CEST
The IEA Clean Energy Transitions Summit on 9 July will bring together countries representing the vast majority of the global economy The year’s largest global gathering on energy and climate issues aims to support a resilient and sustainable economic recovery from the...
World’s First Utility-Scale Molten Salt Fresnel CSP Plant Connects to China’s Grid
The China Dunhuang Dacheng 50MW molten salt linear Fresnel CSP project plant has now officially begun commercial operation on June 19, 2020. To celebrate the occasion of commercial operation of the first ever molten salt Fresnel CSP occasion, the developers and...
Spain’s First CSP to Get Novel Thermal+Electric Storage Retrofit
Abengoa plans to “bolt-on” novel low-cost storage to some of the first Spanish trough CSP plants, that were built without storage
Switzerland’s International Airport to Buy Synhelion’s First Solar Fuel
Synhelion is developing technology to produce synthetic gas from air and sunlight. This can be processed into fuel that can be burned in standard engines
Applications Open for US DOE $9 Million Solar Thermal Desalination Prize
Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the launch of the $9 million American-Made Challenges: Solar Desalination Prize, a competition to accelerate the development of systems that use solar-thermal energy to produce clean water from...
COVID Pandemic Announcement: SolarPACES Conference
California Looks for Long-Duration Renewable Energy Storage Contracts for 2026
An optimal power system portfolio for the US state of California that would drive the world’s fifth largest economy towards greenhouse gas reduction goals for 2030 and then to zero carbon by 2040, includes 1GW of long duration energy storage, an analyst has...
Online Conference April 1-2: World Bank MENA Concentrating Solar for Power and Heat
ATA Insights invites you to attend the World Bank's MENA CSP KIP capstone online conference: Concentrating Solar for Power and Heat (April 1-2, 2020) This final workshop of the World Bank’s Middle East & North Africa Concentration Solar Power Knowledge &...
Generation from Spain’s Existing 2.3 GW of CSP Showing Steady Annual Increases
Spain’s solar generation from Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) continues to increase as operating experience continues to increase efficiency
China’s Supcon Achieves Over 105% of Projected Output in 24/7 Solar
From CSP Focus: China Supcon Delingha 50MW CSP plant achieved record high performance in Feb. 2020 The monthly generation of China Supcon Delingha 50WM CSP tower plant reached record high at 17.1795 GWh in February 2020 (from Jan 26 to Feb 25), with the generation...
Concentrated Solar Heat to Desalinate Seawater at Saudi Neom City
Source: Power-Technology Saudi Arabia has appointed the UK-based Solar Water PLC to build the first ‘carbon-neutral’ desalination plant in the city of Neom. The desalination plant will use concentrated solar power to heat a steel dome that boils the seawater. Works on...
Real-Time Sky Imaging Cameras to Speed Up CSP Response Time
Advances in sky camera systems are set to drive up CSP efficiency in the coming years. In Europe, tests of WobaS All Sky Imager (ASI) technology at the 50 MW La Africana parabolic trough plant in Spain increased plant revenue by 2% over a two year period. Developed by...
Sener Offers to Expand its CSP as South Africa’s Coal Plant Blackouts Continue
Source: South Africa ITWeb Spanish-based technology and engineering company, Sener, together with its partners, has invested billions of rands in the Ilanga concentrated solar power 1 (CSP1) project,which provides solar-generated thermal electricity to around 100 000...
Evening Peak Solar CSP Projected to Undercut Gas in Chile’s Open Auctions
Unlike in other countries, Chile’s open auctions have no subsidies or technology restrictions, pitting CSP against combined cycle gas turbine power plants
Bill Gates Funds A Second Concentrated Solar Thermal Startup: Heliogen
Building on R&D from IDEALAB, Bill Gates has now invested in his second CSP-based start-up after Malta, with Heliogen. Press Release; Singular scientific achievement takes place at Heliogen’s commercial facility in Lancaster, California PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS...
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