CSP uses thermal power blocks like coal plants, but the advantage is that sunlight is the “fuel” so solar can be stored for very long periods
Bokpoort Breaks a Solar Record – CSP Operating Round the Clock 13 Days:
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Nov 5 Webinar: Abengoa on Retrofitting CSP Plants for Intermittent Renewable Energy Storage
Webinar: Retrofitting CSP projects to store and integrate variable renewable energy (VRE) in the grid 5 November at 12:00 CET (Check your local time) Spain’s Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan (PINEC) targets 74% of power from renewable sources by 2030, with...
In South Africa and Spain, CSP is Meeting or Exceeding Projected Operation Targets
South Africa's Bokpoort performance has been "reliably excellent" SolarPACES spoke with Nandu Bhula who has been with the team responsible for the success of ACWA Power’s 50 MW Bokpoort trough Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant in South Africa since the start, first...
ATA Insights Webinar | CSP from Dusk to Dawn: Blueprint for 200 MW Tower
Wednesday October 28th at 12:00 CET CSP is a key player in the renewable energy market, overcoming some of the issues PV plants leave in the dispatch of solar energy. Tower projects with molten salt storage have taken key attention of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)...
Aalborg CSP Cuts Tubing Costs up to 42% with an Asymmetric Receiver
“With the asymmetry of flux levels from the solar field; why not make the receiver also asymmetric to fit better with that,” she explained.
US DOE Announces Quarterfinalists in $9 Million Solar Desalination Prize
The American-Made Challenges: Solar Desalination Prize is a four-stage, $9 million prize competition, providing an additional $1 million in support, designed to accelerate the development of low-cost desalination systems that use solar-thermal power to produce clean...
At the SolarPACES Conference, Heliogen Introduces Solar Heat at 1 cent/kWh
Solar PV for electricity is great, but the world needs solar fuels too, fuel for planes, fuel for ships and fuel for steel and cement.
Program for the 2020 SolarPACES Conference is Now Online
SolarPACES 2020 is coming up soon; starting Monday, 28th September. We are happy to update you on the latest news and program additions. Conference Program The full program of technical and plenary sessions is now available online. More than 400 contributions in the...
Xavier Lara on How Spain’s Q4 Auction Can Achieve the 5 GW of CSP it Wants
What are the policies that make it possible to actually meet a renewable energy target? Regulators can’t simply decree it happens
ACWA Power’s Bokpoort Sets New Production Record as South African Load-shedding Persists
Bokpoort’s thermal storage also powered the grid during the critical evening peak of 4pm – 10pm daily with about 82% Peak Hour Load Factor
Where Very Hot Solar Thermochemistry Research is Today: What’s Needed Next
A state of the art assessment of day or night solar thermochemistry at very high temperatures 1,000ºC to 2,000ºC
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...
Spanish Start-up Innovates Solar Steam Modules for Industries
Solatom’s Fresnel solar module is shipped ready to go and connected onsite as a turn-key design to generate steam or high pressure hot water
SolarPACES 2020 Online Registration is Open
The online registration is now available on the conference website. SolarPACES (Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems) will be held as an online event from September 28 - October 02, 2020. We strive to make this an opportunity to connect the CSP community in a new...
Could Congress Commission a Government Agency Like WAPA to Build CSP?
When Bernie Sanders proposed building publicly owned renewables it was dismissed as pie in the sky. But a US agency once did exactly that
Australian Researchers Assess the Commercial Viability of Solar Alumina Calcining
Commercializing alumina refining using solar heat Approximately 27% of Australia’s industrial carbon emissions come from alumina refineries, in which fossil fuels are burned to heat the processes. But concentrated solar thermal (CST) could provide up to half of the...
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...
Promising Test Results for Molten Salts in Trough CSP
What if the more bankable trough technology could run on molten salt, like the more efficient tower CSP? Wouldn’t that leverage the best of each technology?
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...
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- Rethinking pressurized gases for Fresnel solar receivers
- Volateq’s drone-based monitoring targets key risks in parabolic trough collectors
- Ranga Pitchumani – we’ve just started scratching the surface of Gen3 CSP
- Stored solar heat gets an algorithm to ensure a steady supply
- Aluminum melted with Annular Fresnel solar at over 700°C
- Tallying a year’s sun on solar calcination with sCO2 cycles
- Researchers create a digital twin to run DAWN, Synhelion’s solar fuels plant
- A buried solar receiver to melt lunar ice
- Solar vacuum pyrolysis leverages the lunar vacuum to mine oxygen
- PSA advances a solar reactor to extract oxygen from lunar ilmenite
- Solar steam from Glasspoint to decarbonize a California mine
- Startup concentrates solar to melt NASA’s lunar landing pads
- How rotating the solar receiver could cut Trough CSP land use
- New star-shaped solar receiver cuts costs and prolongs tower CSP life
- 3D-printed ceramics tested to maximize thermal energy storage in molten salts
- ARPA-E-winning thermal energy storage in sand wins commercial interest
- Sandia’s Gen-3 particle-based CSP demo to debut this fall
- Optimizing the safety factor in high temperature solar absorbers
- Finding an ideal channel geometry inside compact flow gas receivers
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