Solar Thermal Electric

Cleanergy signs MoU to build a solar park in Dubai

Tuesday, 28 January 2014 Robin Whitlock

A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between Swedish company Cleanergy and the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) to build a 1,000MW solar facility in Dubai

Chile

Abengoa to develop Chilean solar thermal project

Monday, 13 January 2014 Robin Whitlock Abengoa has been selected by the Ministry of Energy of the Chilean Government and Corfo to develop a 110 MW solar plant using tower technology with 17.5 hours of thermal energy storage using molten salts ...

Abengoa receives nearly $2 million to develop next generation parabolic trough

Thursday, 12 December 2013 REM Abengoa has received a nearly $2 million competitive award from the US Department of Energy SunShot Initiative to improve manufacturing and assembly of its innovative large aperture parabolic trough collector ...

Abengoa to develop a 100 MW solar plant in South Africa

Tuesday, 29 October 2013 Dan McCue

Abengoa has been selected by South Africa's Department of Energy to develop Xina solar One, a 100 MW parabolic trough plant with a five-hour thermal energy storage system using molten salts.

Conference to highlight benefits of big and small scale CSP plants

Monday, 21 October 2013 REM CSP provides electricity to the grid in a far more stable way than other technologies can, but due to its scalability it can also provide important cost-effective industrial solutions, according to CSP ...

CSP Today announces award finalists

Monday, 21 October 2013 REM Finalists of the International CSP Today Awards 2013 have been announced. Amidst the backdrop of a challenging international CSP market, there have been great efforts made to excel the industry forwards ...

South Africa

French loan to help fund South African CSP plant

Tuesday, 15 October 2013 Robin Whitlock

Eskom and Agence Française de Développement will sign a €100 million loan agreement for the funding of a 100MW concentrating solar power plant

Abengoa’s Solana, first large-scale solar plant in the US with thermal energy storage,
begins commercial operation

Wednesday, 09 October 2013 Dan McCue Abengoa announced Solana, the world´s largest parabolic trough plant with a total installed capacity of 280 MW -- and also the first solar plant in the United States with thermal energy storage -- has ...

Ivanpah solar Electric Generating System reaches ‘first sync’ milestone

Thursday, 26 September 2013 Dan McCue The Ivanpah solar Electric Generating System successfully delivered power to the grid for the first time earlier this week, thus confirming the 377 MW solar thermal electric plant's Unit 1 is ready to ...

Abengoa announces first half 2013 financial results

Thursday, 29 August 2013 Dan McCue

Abengoa announced its unaudited consolidated financial results for the first half of the year ended June 30, 2013, and the underlying message is that diversity is good.