A guest post by Alina Gilmanova, who with her colleague there; Zhang Haobin, provides a unique perspective from her work inside China and Recently some media, such as Energyskeptic, falsely accused CSP technology of being unreliable, full of glitches and having a low...
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SUPCON CSP sets World’s First Annual Record for Molten Salt Tower Generation
As of July 5, 2022, Cosin Solar's pilot project the SUPCON Delingha 50MW Molten Salt Tower CSP Plant generated 755 MWh of electricity in a single day. With this latest single-day generating record, the plant has now achieved an annual record as well. In just 11...
Cosin Breaks Ground on 100 MW CSP and Thermal Storage in Gansu Province
Jinta County, Gansu Province: The Jinta Zhongguang Solar Energy 100 MW Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project has broken ground, meeting the initial construction milestone by beginning concrete work for the receiver tower foundation. This 100MW CSP project was...
How China’s Cosin Solar Solved Some Tower CSP Challenges
Known then as Supcon Solar, Cosin Solar developed two tower projects in China's pilot CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) program; as technology and core equipment provider on PowerChina Gonghe 50MW tower CSP, and developing the Supcon Delingha 50MW tower CSP. These were...
How Did Cosin Solar Tower CSP Reach Projected Performance So Fast?
Cosin Solar (previously Supcon Solar) seemed to burst on the global Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) scene as a fully fledged Chinese CSP firm. Among China’s pilot projects, the Supcon Delingha 50 MW tower CSP with 7 hours of storage in Qinghai Province was among the...
China’s Supcon Achieves Over 105% of Projected Output in 24/7 Solar
From CSP Focus: China Supcon Delingha 50MW CSP plant achieved record high performance in Feb. 2020 The monthly generation of China Supcon Delingha 50WM CSP tower plant reached record high at 17.1795 GWh in February 2020 (from Jan 26 to Feb 25), with the generation...
Supcon Just Connected 50 MW of Tower CSP to China’s Grid at Record Speed
Supcon has completed its second CSP Tower project, the 50 MW Gonghe project at record speed – just under a year and a half
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