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China to build 100 MW of tower CSP in Tibet

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...

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Cosin wins bid for new 200 MW Chinese CSP storage/solar field

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...

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What happened with Crescent Dunes?

What happened with Crescent Dunes?

The Crescent Dunes CSP project in the US was the first of a kind: The first tower CSP with thermal energy storage at full-scale; 110 MW. (Above about 150 MW, the distances of the solar field encircling the tower receiver has optical limits) It was developed by the...

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What CSIRO says about CSP for Australia

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...

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Spain seeks thermal energy storage proposals by September

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...

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China

China

Latest CSP in Construction: 2023 (three projects) #1: Huidong New Energy 110 MW Beam-down Tower CSP #2: Cosin Solar: Jinta Zhongguang 100 MW Tower CSP #3: CEIC/ Lanzhou Dacheng's 100 MW Molten Salts Fresnel CSP   Latest Online: 2020 CSNP/Royal Tech Urat - 100MW...

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Spain

Spain

Latest CSP in Development: 2023 Sener Solgest-1 110 MW trough CSP Latest online: 2013 from the first round of CSP in Spain that culminated with 2.3 GW: 150 MW Termosol I, II, III, trough CSP, with 9 hours of storage: in operation since Total CSP in Operation in Spain:...

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Chile

Chile

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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