Solar Thermal Electric

Gemasolar's innovative solar plant exceeds expectations

Friday, 12 August 2011 REM Gemsolar’s innovative solar facilitiy at Fuentes de Andalucía (Seville) – the first commercial plant to use molten salt storage in a central tower configuration with a heliostat field ...

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.

SENER and Torresol Energy honoured with US CSP Today awards

Friday, 08 July 2011 REM Spain’s SENER technological group and Torresol Energy, a joint venture between the group and Abu Dhabi-based Masdar, have been awarded US CSP Today awards in the categories of “engineering ...

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 ...

India

Titan Tracker design selected for pilot solar power tower system

Wednesday, 06 July 2011 Toby Price The Indian company, SunBorne Energy, is ambitious, aiming for grid parity for solar power in 2015. It wants to become a “thought leader” in the solar sector, and as part of this mission is ...

Spain

New plant produces solar power 24 hours a day

Tuesday, 05 July 2011 REM Gemasolar, the concentrated solar power plant located in Fuentes de Andalucía (Seville, Spain), owned by Torresol Energy (a joint venture between Masdar – Abu Dhabi’s future energy and ...

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 ...

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 ...