Latest Online: 2022 Cerro Dominador 110 MW SolarPACES-NREL database: All plant details on the 110 MW Cerro Dominador tower CSP project The 110 MW Cerro Dominador tower CSP project with 17.5 hours of thermal energy storage first synchronized to the grid in 2021 and was...
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Chile’s 2023 auction will incentivize dispatchable CSP
Major changes for Chile's next auction include incentives for energy storage and non-variable renewables like CSP, a splitting of the auction into three geographic zones (north, central, south), an increase in contract length to 20 years, and the possibility of...
SENER’s 110 MW of new Spanish CSP could start by year-end near its Gemasolar plant
Solgest-1, the first new Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) project in Spain since 2013 could start construction by the end of 2023 The thermal energy storage of the Solgest-1 110 MW CSP will generate 1,900 MWh. The total 150 MW of solar energy will be a hybrid of CSP...
Solar energy record: Mongolian CSP generated round the clock
Solar energy record - 12 days, 24 hours a day In a solar energy record for round-the-clock power generation, Mongolia's Wulate 100MW trough CSP project ran continuously for 12 days, generating pure solar energy without batteries; due to the thermal energy storage in...
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...
Namibia to De-Risk CSP with Permitted Siting and BOOT Finance
Namibia to follow Moroccan clean energy policy to cut CSP developer risk
Namibia Readies Bidding for CSP in 2022
At the 2021 SolarPACES Conference, NamPower generation projects head Grant Muller laid out the national power company’s now finalized plans for a CSP project in Namibia, for between 50 MW and 130 MW, with storage. After 4 years of preparations, it is ready for its...
Spain Seeks Bids for 200 MW of CSP in 2021 Auction
Spain to launch a third renewable auction - to include Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) - before the end of 2021 October 4, 2021: The Ministry for the Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge plans to launch a third renewable auction before the end of the year....
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
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
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