Khi Solar One began operations in 2016 September 29 (Renewables Now) - Abengoa SA (BME:ABG) moved to positive EBITDA of EUR 16 million (USD 18.9m) in the first half of 2017, compared to negative EUR 59 million a year earlier, attributing the improvement to efforts to...
The giant 700 MW project in Dubai will combine tower and trough technologies and use scale and local infrastructure synergies to set a new benchmark price of $73/MWh for CSP with storage, Andrea Lovato, ACWA Power’s Executive Director of Business Development, told New...
Saudi Arabia's ACWA Power and China's Shanghai Power have been selected as the winners in the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) competitive auction, for the world's largest concentrated solar power (CSP) plant at 700 MW. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice...
CSP Plaza is reporting: Beijing Shouhang IHW Resources Saving Technology Co., Ltd. just signed a Cooperation Framework Agreement on Jointly Developing CSP Business with CNNP Liaoning Nuclear Power Co., Ltd. (CNLNPC). In the announcement posted late night the same day...
On September 14th, the National Energy Administration officially released the “Chinese 1 GW Demonstration Project Short List”, with total installed capacity of 1GW, including 9 tower plants, 7 parabolic trough plants and 4 Fresnel plants. a total of 20 projects in the...
Energy Department Announces Achievement of SunShot Goal, New Focus for Solar Energy Office WASHINGTON, D.C. - In conjunction with the annual Solar Power International conference, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released new research today that shows the solar...
China’s first commercial concentrated solar power plant has begun a test run and is scheduled to send power to the grid by the end of this year, said the operator on Monday. The Delingha solar thermal power station operated by the China General Nuclear Power Group...
Subprogram: Concentrating Solar Power Funding Number: DE-FOA-0001821 The SunShot Initiative intends to release a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) for solar desalination technology, which supports research, development, and potential demonstration of early- stage...
South Africa’s acclaimed Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement (REIPPP) Programme has stalled for more than two years as Eskom refused to sign PPAs with 37 IPPs
TuNur Ltd has filed a request in the Tunisian Ministry of Energy, Mines and Renewable Energy for the authorization of a 4.5GW solar energy export project destined to fuel Europe.
By Roger Lilley for EE Publishers. With yet another renewable energy (RE) project completed on time and on budget, one has to wonder why the Departments of Energy (DoE) and Public Enterprises (DPE) tolerate Eskom’s continued refusal to sign additional power producer...
A Fraunhofer study comparing annual energy yields per square meter has found that solar thermal collectors will produce on average about three times as many kilowatt hours from the same amount of space as photovoltaic solar. The study was conducted by Florian...
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) issued on 15 January 2017 a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a 200MW CSP plant, the fourth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. The lowest bid has come in at 9.45 US cents/kWh. The three other bids ranged...
The 2010 SolarPACES Lifetime Award Winner Arnold Goldman passed away earlier this week. From SolarPACES we would like to express our sympathy and condolences to his family and friends. The solar industry lost a beloved innovator this week with the passing of Arnold...
On Friday 5 May, The International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) has condemned the Kingdom of Spain to pay €128 million to Eiser Infrastructure Limited and its affiliate Energia Solar Luxembourg due to the reforms undertaken by the Spanish...
Investment in renewable energy still lacking in 17 countries in South and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia The 17 UNECE countries in South and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia represented only 0.2% or USD 0.4 billion of global...
All the most important European concentrated solar energy R&D infrastructures are participating in the ‘Solar Facilities for the European Research Area Second Phase (SFERA II)’ Project, funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Program...
On September 1, 2016，China National Development and Reform Commission issued the notice of feed-in tariff policy for CSP plant. According to the document, the feed-in tariff for the solar thermal power demonstration projects is ￥1.15/kWh. The notice pointed out that...
September 13th, National Energy Administration issued a notice on the construction of concentrating solar power generation demonstration projects, up to 20 projects were included in this first demonstration project list and the status showed that the capacity was...
The Government of Greece has recently accepted the invitation from the Executive Committee of the IEA's Technology Collaboration Programme Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems (SolarPACES), extended at its meeting on March 24, 2015 in Rome, Italy, to join the...
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