Solar Thermal Electric

New partnership between Synhelion and Wood accelerates market entry of solar fuels

Thursday, 13 May 2021 Robin Whitlock Swiss solar fuel pioneer Synhelion has entered into a partnership with Wood, a global leader in consulting and engineering across energy and the built environment to rapidly bring solar-based synthetic ...

Solar Heat Europe and Liquid Gas Europe publish joint policy on carbon reduction

Thursday, 29 October 2020 Robin Whitlock Solar Heat Europe and Liquid Gas Europe have called on European, national, and local policymakers to take a comprehensive approach to emissions reduction focusing on cost-effective modernisation of heating ...

Aalborg CSP Restarts Heat Exchanger Production in China

Friday, 27 March 2020 REM While a growing number of countries around the world are closing their borders to prevent any further spreading of the coronavirus and COVID/19, China seems to have succeeded in turning the curve around. ...

Central Tower of 700 MW CSP Project Tops Out in Dubai

Monday, 20 January 2020 REM Significant progress has been made in the Dubai 700 MW concentrated solar power project, announced as the world's largest single-site CSP project. On Jan 9th, 2020, a topping-out ceremony for the project's ...

Abengoa and Acciona to build Cerro Dominador Solar Thermal Plant

Wednesday, 01 August 2018 Dan McCue Abengoa and Acciona, through a consortium formed for this purpose, have signed a contract to complete the construction of the Cerro Dominador solar thermal plant in Chile. The consortium, led by Acciona ...

World Bank Approves Financing for Second Solar Power Complex in Morocco

Tuesday, 12 June 2018 REM The World Bank is providing an additional $125 million for Morocco’s adoption of innovative solar technology. The additional financing, which includes $25 million from the Clean Technology Fund, will ...

CSP Market to Witness Over 17% Growth by 2025

Monday, 20 November 2017 REM Global Concentrated Solar Power Market is set to surpass 24 GW by 2025, as reported in the latest study by Global Market Insights, Inc. Growing adoption of clean energy fuel over conventional fuel will ...

South Australia

Solar Research Field Opens in South Australia

Tuesday, 10 October 2017 REM Australian car parts company Precision Components has partnered with the University of South Australia to open the concentrated solar research field in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia. ...

SolarReserve Inks Deal with South Australian Government for 150 MW Solar Thermal Project

Saturday, 19 August 2017 Dan McCue

SolarReserve has signed a long-term generation project agreement to build a 150 MW solar thermal power station with 8 hours of energy storage near the town of Port Augusta, South Australia.

ESTIF becomes Solar Heat Europe

Monday, 03 July 2017 Robin Whitlock

The European Solar Thermal Industry Federation (ESTIF) has changed its name to Solar Heat Europe in response to continuing demand for heat energy in Europe.