Solar Thermal Electric

Micro CSP developer signs MOU for financing with Chinese investment firm

Wednesday, 16 November 2011 REM Sopogy, Inc., a developer of micro concentrated solar power (MicroCSP) technologies, has signed a memorandum of understanding for equity and project finance with Sichuan Dongjia Investment Company, the ...

Novatec solar superheats steam using solar power

Tuesday, 25 October 2011 REM Concentrating solar power (CSP) specialist, Novatec solar, has used an innovative Fresnel receiver design to successfully generate superheated steam at temperatures above 500°C at its 1.4 megawatt (MW) ...

solar thermal electricity goes global

Tuesday, 18 October 2011 Toby Price In an announcement timed to coincide with the International Energy Agency's (IEA) biennial Ministerial Meeting in Paris today, the industry associations representing the solar thermal electricity industry ...

CSP Today two-part guide to South Africa

CSP alternative to coal in South Africa

Monday, 17 October 2011 REM In Part 2 of the CSP Today South Africa Guide, we look at how South Africa should be readily embracing concentrating solar power (CSP) as a low-carbon, sustainable, base load energy alternative to coal. ...

Botswana

Plans to develop 200-MW CSP plant in Southern African country

Thursday, 13 October 2011 Toby Price Spain’s National Renewable Energy Centre (Cener) is leading a project to examine the technical and economic feasibility of constructing a 200-MW concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in the African country ...

CSP Today two-part guide to South Africa

South Africa must overcome local hurdles to grow CSP

Wednesday, 12 October 2011 REM Lacking of a definitive Government energy policy in South Africa has been a key barrier hindering progress in the Concentrated solar Power (CSP) market in the country. If these challenges can be overcome, ...

Israel

HelioBooster CSP system to increase output at fossil fuel plant

Tuesday, 11 October 2011 Toby Price HelioFocus and IEC (the Israel Electric Company) have signed a contract for boosting the Ramat Hovav power plant (located in the southern area of Israel) with 1 MW of clean electricity. HelioFocus will ...

solar Millennium cashes out of US power plant investments

Monday, 10 October 2011 REM

Concentrated solar-thermal company solar Millennium AG is selling four power plants it has been developing in the US to fellow German developer solarhydrid AG for an undisclosed amount.

Spain

Gemasolar: a jewel in Spain’s crown

Friday, 07 October 2011 Toby Price His Majesty the King of Spain Juan Carlos I and His Highness General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Deputy Supreme Commander of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces officially ...

Spain

Spanish solar thermal electric plant starts supplying clean power to Munich

Tuesday, 04 October 2011 Toby Price Last week saw the opening of the Andasol 3 solar thermal electric plant by a consortium of five German companies in the Spanish province of Granada. The completion of the third Andasol power plant on a ...