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Green hydrogen shipping breakthrough: HySiLabs
HySiLabs has pioneered a low-cost, non-toxic, non-explosive green hydrogen storage method in a liquid at ambient pressures and temperatures
50 MW Hami Tower CSP project with novel STELLIO heliostats commissioned in China
[Ed: the novel STELLIO heliostats seen here, and used in this Hami Tower CSP project, won the SolarPACES Innovation Award for 2015] MASERMIC and SBP Sonne have completed the commissioning of the 50MW HAMI tower solar plant located in CHINA, XINJIANG province. It is...
US and China lead in thermal energy storage patents
Background: Concentrated solar thermal energy uses thermal energy storage. And China currently has 30 CSP projects under construction with thermal energy storage. Various options of energy storage are described in patented solutions in the field of solar energy. They...
1414 Degrees readies silicon for its high temperature thermal energy storage
1414 Degrees has reached a major milestone in the development of its SiBox Demonstration Module. Construction is almost complete, meaning that the company is now confident enough to move forward with the installation of its thermal energy storage media...
Heliocon seeks heliostat cost reduction to $50 per square meter
Heliostat cost reduction is necessary to lower the cost of tower CSP. As many as 10,000 heliostats comprise the solar field.
New DOE solar technologies funding for early stage CSP / CST direct heat
The US DOE announces new 2023 solar technologies funding for early stage CSP/CST innovations
DLR study: potential for low cost solar fuels in the MENA region
Solar PV and CSP are the best suited renewables to drive MENA region synthetic fuel production potential at low cost
Solar furnace to melt steel at 2000°C for Swiss recycler Panatère
The solar furnace in Parkent, Uzbekistan will be used to recycle 50 tons of steel by the Swiss firm, Panatère in 2023
The race for solar megaprojects in North Africa that attracts Europeans
Source: El Pais (Google translated from French) Between the deposits of the road that leads to Rjim Maatoug, along the Algerian border and 120 kilometers from Kébili, in the south of Tunisia, only hydrocarbon tankers pass through in an incessant ballet. This area,...
Shanghai Electric CSP starts sending overnight solar power to Dubai grid
The energy stored in 700 MW of Shanghai Electric's trough tower CSP, once all units are operational, can generate power continuously for a maximum of 13.5 hours at night and 15 hours during periods of inclement weather. Source: Shanghai Electric for CSPFocus On...
Hydroxide molten salts tested in 20 MW thermal energy storage trial
20 MW Thermal Energy Storage Trials Hydroxide Molten Salt at the offshore energy island Bornholm Source: Recharge: Denmark’s ‘energy island’ of Bornholm is to host what is being claimed as “game changing” molten salts-based storage technology that its developer aims...
Auction failure curtails CSP in Spain’s Ecological Transition
Source: Economia Digital The low price of the ministry and the uncertainty of connection delay the installation of a new solar thermal, which in 2025 should be double the current one according to the PNIEC. The generation of energy with solar thermal technology has...
China now has 30 CSP projects with thermal energy storage underway
Email from CSP Focus China 2022, Nov 2&3 in Beijing The development of CSP is entering into a fast track in 2022 here in China. Within the Multi-Energy RE complexes combining with PV and/or Wind, CSP is playing a role as stabilizer and regulator, easing the power...
Abengoa wins Solar Project of the Year award for 600 MW trough CSP at NOOR
Press Release: Abengoa wins solar project of the year award for Noor 1 At Noor 1 Abengoa has been responsible for providing the technology, design, engineering of the HTF system, as well as the construction of the collectors for three parabolic trough plants (200 MW...
Solar heat to decarbonize industries gets $13 million boost from DOE
DOE Announces $24 Million Awards; $10.7 Million for Gen-3 CSP and $13.2 to Advance Concentrated Solar-Thermal Technologies for Industrial Decarbonization DOE also Releases Strategic Roadmap to Enhance Ability to Harness Solar Power, Lower Costs for Mirrors used in...
SolarPACES Conference Sept 27-30 Plenary Highlights
Dr Avi Schultz Conference Chair Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Program Manager Solar Energy Technologies Office U.S. Department of Energy I’m excited to see you all in person in Albuquerque in less than two weeks, and launch the packed agenda we have for the...
China seeks bids to build nine CSP plants
Source: CSPFocus September: Equipment Procurement Tenders- CGN New Energy Jilin 100MW CSP Project On September 2, Da'an Guangtou Zhongneng CSP Company issued a bidding announcement for the turbine generator set, steam generation system, solar concentration and heat...
Synhelion produces first solar syngas in Wood’s industrial-scale reforming reactor
Press Release: Paving the way for solar fuels: Jülich, Germany, August 18, 2022 Synhelion has become the first company in the world to succeed in producing syngas on an industrial scale using only solar heat as an energy source. The Swiss solar fuel pioneer...
Another 400 MW of Chinese CSP Starts in Xinjiang Province
[ED: All four projects follow China's renewables scale-up plan of 1 GW renewables projects, where 100 MW of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) is co-located with 900 MW of Photovoltaic (PV) in order to provide thermal energy storage, to extend the hours of solar...
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