Solar Thermal Electric

Performance, performance, performance

Monday, 18 July 2011 REM

Why is the performance testing of newly developed solar thermal electric plants important for the future of large scale projects in the US? This article tries to find the answer.

Egypt

One of first solar-gas hybrid plants in the world goes live

Thursday, 07 July 2011 REM Even the recent social uprising in Egypt has not stopped Iberdrola from pushing forward with its plans to commission the 150-MW Kuraymat power plant due south of Cairo, which fuses solar energy with a ...

Gemasolar wins Sener recognition in European Business Awards

Tuesday, 28 June 2011 REM Sener, which has developed Gemasolar, the first commercial solar thermal electric plant to use a molten salts central tower receiver, has been selected as a Country Representative of Spain in the prestigious ...

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 ...

SolarReserve gets multi-million dollar federal guarantee for Crescent Dunes

Friday, 27 May 2011 The US’s first utility-scale solar thermal power project to be developed using US technology has been given a push after its developer, SolarReserve, received an offer from the US Department of Energy ...

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

Renewable energy innovator to represent Spain in European Business Awards

Tuesday, 10 May 2011 Renewable energy is coming of age, as demonstrated by the recent selection of the engineering group, Sener (which is especially active in the solar thermal electric segment) to represent Spain in Europe’s ...

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

Close to two million euros for research into solar-biomass hybridisation

Thursday, 28 April 2011 No sooner said than done. A couple of weeks ago, Valeriano Ruiz, President of Spain’s Advanced Technology Centre for Renewable Energy (CTAER), told Renewable Energy Magazine that solar-biomass hybridisation ...