Solar Thermal Electric

American csp industry receives huge boost from DoE

Monday, 20 June 2011 Toby Price 2011 will go down in the concentrated solar power (csp) industry’s history books as an excellent year. Following announcements for two loan guarantees in late 2010 to construct Ivanpah (a tower plant ...

Latin America

Abengoa to construct concentrated solar power plants in Chile, Mexico

Monday, 13 June 2011 Dan McCue

Spain’s Abengoa will develop concentrated solar power plants in the Atacama Desert in Chile and in Agua Prieta, Mexico, its first such projects in both countries.

Further costs savings achieved with new solar tracker

Tuesday, 07 June 2011 Toby Price Titan Tracker has released a new a generation of dual-axis solar trackers which it claims can reduce costs by about 30% thanks to “relevant improvements such as the centralisation of its elevation ...

Spain

“World’s first” commercial-scale csp plant with central tower receiver and thermal storage commissioned

Tuesday, 31 May 2011 Torresol Energy, a joint venture between Masdar (Abu Dhabi’s future energy company) and Sener (the leading Spanish engineering and construction firm), has commissioned its flagship 19.9MW Gemasolar ...

Finalists announced for the csp Today US Awards 2011

Thursday, 26 May 2011 The 2nd edition of the csp Today Awards USA 2011 will take place on Tuesday 28 June, as part of csp TODAY USA 2011 conference, in its 5th edition this year. With thousands of online votes, the Concentrated ...

Spain

Sener develops new innovations in thermal storage for solar thermal plants

Tuesday, 24 May 2011 The engineering and technology group is making sustainable advances in thermal storage such as a single-tank system and a graphite storage system. At present Sener has a portfolio of 19 solar plants in ...

Spain

DLR and Endesa trial direct steam generation

Monday, 09 May 2011 The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and Spanish utility company Endesa have inaugurated a direct solar steam generation and energy storage pilot plant at Carboneras, ...

Spain

csp one of the few sectors not to suffer severe recession

Friday, 15 April 2011 During the three years between 2008 and 2010, 750,000 jobs were lost in Spain’s industry. At the same time, this European country commissioned 17 solar thermal electric power plants, creating thousands ...

MENA

Jasmine revolution an opportunity for solar development

Wednesday, 13 April 2011 The socio-economic changes facing the North Africa and Middle East region has provided a great opportunity for solar development. During a recent webinar hosted by MENASOL 2011, Dr Nazar Hassan, Deputy ...

MENA

Will solar development survive in North Africa and Middle East?

Wednesday, 30 March 2011 In recent weeks the world has seen a dramatic change in the political structure in North Africa and Middle East. With all eyes of the world on the region the question remains: what does the future economy ...