Solar Thermal Electric

SolarReserve Reaches Milestone in Solar Thermal Project Development

Wednesday, 10 January 2018 Dan McCue SolarReserve has received Development Approval for its Aurora Solar Energy Project, a key milestone required to build the 150 MW solar thermal power station 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of Port Augusta. ...

Ashalim’s Solar Tower is World’s Tallest

Wednesday, 27 December 2017 Dan McCue The Ashalim Solar Thermal Power Station, located in Israel’s Negev desert, is one of the largest projects of its type in the world. It is also the first solar thermal or concentrated solar power (CSP) ...

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 ...

Fractal Design Creates More Efficient Solar Receivers

Thursday, 26 October 2017 Dan McCue Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed fractal-like, concentrating solar power receivers for small- to medium-scale use they say are up to 20 percent more effective at absorbing sunlight ...

New Technology Has the Potential to Lower Cost of CSP Systems

Wednesday, 04 October 2017 Dan McCue

Skysun, a startup out of Bay Village, Ohio, has developed a new design that could help cut the cost of a Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) system by more than 30%.

Excitement is Building for CSP Seville 2017

Thursday, 28 September 2017 Dan McCue

The 11th International Solar Thermal Power Summit will be held in Seville, Spain, Nov. 21-22, 2017. Every November, people interested in CSP travel to Seville to learn what is new in the industry.

NREL investigates coatings for solar power generation

Monday, 25 September 2017 Robin Whitlock

New research being conducted by the National renewable energy Laboratory (NREL) is investigating how to mitigate corrosion in concentrating solar power (CSP) plants.

ACWA Power and Shanghai Electric to Build World’s Largest CSP Plant in Dubai

Monday, 18 September 2017 Dan McCue Saudi Arabia-based ACWA Power along with China’s Shanghai Electric have been awarded the fourth phase of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. Under the terms of the agreement the new facility ...

Low-Cost Method for Solar-Thermal Conversion

Thursday, 31 August 2017 Dan McCue Researchers at Columbia Engineering, along with colleagues at the Department of Chemistry at Columbia University, and Stanford University have developed a new, scalable, and low-cost “dip and dry” ...

U.S. Army Invests in 1MW Energy Storage System to Complement 10MW Solar Power Plant

Wednesday, 23 August 2017 REM California-based SunPower Corp. has broken ground on a 10MW solar photovoltaic system at the Redstone Arsenal U.S. Army post in Alabama. With a newly added 1MW energy storage system, the project is designed ...