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Chilean President to visit Cosin Solar CSP project in China
The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, together with his entourage and a delegation of businessmen from the energy sector, will visit the Chinese CSP plant with the highest production in the world, according to H2 News. President Boric, accompanied by representatives...
Black coating mimicking sea corals wins SolarPACES 2023 innovation award
Smiles abound at SolarPACES 2023 where the engineers behind a record-setting solar energy coating received the Technology Innovation Award. From L to R: PhD candidate Yifan Guo, Dr Juan Felipe Torres, Dr Joe Coventry, Kaoru Tsuda, CEO of Nano Frontier Technology, and...
Concentrated solar increases industrial steam market share
Industries using solar to supply steam or heat for industrial processes are increasingly selecting concentrated solar
Kuwait’s RFP for 200 MW of CSP has begun
[See SolarPACES-NREL full technical details of Kuwait's first CSP project 50 MW of Trough CSP] Kuwait is set to advance its long-awaited 4-gigawatt (GW) Shagaya solar power project, with the Request for Qualification (RFQ) for various phases scheduled for release by...
DEWA 700 MW CSP project caps 200 MW more Trough
Dubai, UAE: Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has commissioned the second 200 megawatt (MW) unit of the parabolic trough complex in the 4th phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. The first parabolic trough unit and the Tower CSP project are...
Cosin Solar now supplies 1 GW of China’s tower CSP
Press Release: Cosin Solar Sealing One More Deal, Cosin Solar’s Total Tower CSP Projects Hit 1GW! Cosin Solar Technology Co., Ltd. (“Cosin Solar”) and State Power Investment Shandong Electric Power Engineering Consulting Institute Co., Ltd. (“SDEPCI”) signed the...
China to build 100 MW of tower CSP in Tibet
Total capacity of solar: The project has an overall planned installed capacity of 650MW, including a 100MW thermal storage solar thermal power generation project and a 550MW photovoltaic power generation project. The project will be constructed in two phases, with the...
$30 million in DOE funding for solar thermal fuel, heat, or storage
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced the Solar-thermal Fuels and Thermal Energy Storage Via Concentrated Solar-thermal Energy funding opportunity, which will award $30 million for projects to produce fuels via renewable...
Women in Concentrated Solar opens mentorship program
Do you want to become a mentor? Women+ in Concentrated Solar is starting a mentorship program for women and other underrepresented genders in the concentrated solar sector, to help our mentees grow as professionals. In a first step, we are looking for mentors (all...
Solar hydrogen testing begins at CSIRO conference tour site
Tests are underway on a cutting edge renewable hydrogen technology that is being backed by iron-ore billionaire Andrew Forrest to deliver a cheaper and more scalable way to produce the zero emissions fuel using concentrated sunlight.
Egypt launches a solar desalination tender for five CSP projects
According to Fady Elsayed Senior Project Development Manager, Southern Africa, at Infinity Power, the Egyptian Government has launched a tender for five concentrated solar power plants on the north coast: "The Egyptian Electricity Holding Company (EEHC) has launched a...
Cosin wins bid for new 200 MW Chinese CSP storage/solar field
Press Release: Cosin wins 200 MW bid for solar field and MSR system On September 7, we received the "Notification of Award" from CGN China Nuclear Power Engineering Co., Ltd., confirming that Cosin Solar has won the contract for Solar Field and MSR Systems equipment...
Gonghe CSP in Qinghai Province runs a record 19 of 24 hours
803,000 kwh! The single-day power generation of Qinghai Gonghe CSP Power Station hit a new high! On July 21, the optimized operation mode of Qinghai Gonghe Solar Thermal Power Station generated a single day of 803,000 kWh of power generation, and the operating time of...
What CSIRO says about CSP for Australia
A growing need to store excess renewable energy is driving Australia to look at a range of storage plants and technologies. The region requires a lot of reliable and affordable energy storage, from batteries and other sources, not just because it must push hard to hit...
MASEN has shortlisted six consortia to build Morocco’s next CSP project at Midelt
Morocco is about to award a new contract for the construction of a hybrid solar power plant in Midelt, a city located in the Atlas Mountains. The project, known as Noor Midelt II, is part of the country's ambitious plan to increase its renewable energy capacity and...
Synhelion and CEMEX make further progress toward the world’s first fully solar-powered cement plant
Press Release: Aug 3 2023 Synhelion and Cemex announced today a significant milestone in their joint effort to develop fully solar-driven cement production: the scaling of their technology to industrially-viable levels. This includes the continuous production of...
Cosin Solar wins more EPC contracts as China accelerates CSP
Press Release: August 1, 2023: Cosin Solar Won the Bid of the Solar Field and MSR System Equipment Supply for the 100MW EPC Project of the Tuokexun County CSP + PV Hybrid Project On July 31, 2023, we received the "Notification of Award" from the Equipment and...
Spain seeks thermal energy storage proposals by September
The government of Spain is launching €280 million (US$310 million) in grants for standalone energy storage projects, thermal energy storage and reversible pumped hydro to go online in 2026. The Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge...
Seramic Materials’ thermal energy storage in recycled ceramics gets a trial
[Ed: The storage material is by Seramic Materials; developed by Nicolas Calvet, Founder and Chair of the Masdar Institute Solar Platform, the first CSP and thermal energy storage research facility in the UAE (United Arab Emirates)] Source: PV Magazine Serbia-based...
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