concentrated solar energy News
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Heliogen, Inc. Schedules Release of Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results and Conference Call
Heliogen, Inc. (“Heliogen”) (NYSE: HLGN), a leading provider of AI-enabled concentrated solar energy, today announced that it will release financial and operating results for the third quarter 2022 after the market close on Monday, November 7, 2022. This release will be followed by a conference call for investors at 10:00 AM EST on Tuesday, November 8. Bill Gross, Heliogen’s ...
By Heliogen
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Nanofoils Are Now Available at Alfa Chemistry for Wide Applications
As an outstanding member of the nanomaterial family, nanofoil has enjoyed extensive popularity in either the research community or the manufacturing industry. Earlier this month, the US-located chemical supplier Alfa Chemistry announces that diverse nanofoils are now commercially available for customers across the globe. Made up of thousands of nanoscale foils, nanofoil can be divided into many ...
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$30M in New Funding to Advance Concentrating Solar-thermal Technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced the Solar-thermal Fuels and Thermal Energy Storage Via Concentrated Solar-thermal Energy funding opportunity, which will award $30 million for projects to produce fuels via renewable energy resources and improve thermal energy storage technologies. The research, development, and demonstration projects resulting from ...
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Egypt to test multi-purpose power units
The Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) has announced the launch of a pilot Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project to test units that can simultaneously produce electricity and desalinate water. The four-year project test project, known as "Multi-Purpose Applications by Thermodynamic Solar", or MATS, has received 22 million Euros (US$28 million) from the European Union ...
By SciDev.Net
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Energy researchers find Obama an eager student
'He was very responsive, and an incredibly warm person,' said Paula Hammond, one of the five MIT researchers who got a chance to demonstrate their energy-related work to President Barack Obama during his visit to the campus last Friday. 'He understood the potential of what we were doing, and asked very specific questions,' she said. While the Presidential visit marked the second time a sitting ...
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New collaboration reinforces Cranfield’s solar reputation
Cranfield University and Global CSP, developers of the world’s first precision engineered solar energy collector system, are to work together on two solar energy projects. The collaboration will involve testing and improving Global CSP’s solar energy collector system – the ‘solar captor’. Based on aircraft technology, the solar captor is fully insulated against ...
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Heliogen, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2022 Financial And Operational Results; Reports Progress On Scale Up Of Long Beach Facility
Heliogen, Inc. (“Heliogen”) (NYSE: HLGN), a leading provider of AI-enabled concentrated solar energy technology, today provided its second quarter 2022 financial and operational results and reaffirmed its previously announced guidance for 2022. Second Quarter 2022 Highlights Finalized and executed a lease for Brenda Solar Energy Zone with U.S. Bureau of Land Management Announced ...
By Heliogen
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Concentrated Solar Power leading energy storage race in 2014
Regulatory bodies including CPUC and FERC continue to roll out requirements supporting the development of energy storage technologies to deal with the problem of grid intermittency created by high levels of renewable integration. As a result of this there is growing interest in concentrated solar power (CSP) as a procurement option. The strongest storage mandate to date has been set out by the ...
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CSP to play a key role stabilizing the grid in South Africa
The South African economy has been affected by recent power interruptions, highlighting the urgent need for concentrated solar power to improve energy efficiency. Eskom announced a power emergency last week, asking industrial users to reduce consumption by 10% and residential consumers to switch off air conditioners, lights, and non-essential appliances during peak times. Experts highlighted ...
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City of Lancaster Announces Collaboration with Heliogen to Produce Green Hydrogen
The City of Lancaster today announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Heliogen, Inc., a California-based renewable energy technology company that uses concentrating solar thermal systems to convert sunlight into steam, heat, power, and green hydrogen fuel. Under the terms of the MOU, Heliogen will serve as the technology provider, project developer, builder, operator, and ...
By Heliogen
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Largest solar plant of the world to be launched in California
BrightSource Energy, a U.S. company specializing in solar thermal electricity generation, is about to inaugurate by the end of the year the largest production center ever built in the Mojave Desert in California. The new plant of Ivanpah, in the County of San Bernardino, is the project of the world's largest solar power plant, and has a focus on solar thermal concentrating technology towers. ...
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Heliogen Achieves Breakthrough Temperatures from Concentrated Sunlight for Industrial Processes
Heliogen, the clean energy company that is transforming sunlight to create and replace fuels, recently announced its launch and that it has - for the first time commercially - concentrated solar energy to exceed temperatures greater than 1,000 degrees Celsius. At that temperature, Heliogen can replace the use of fossil fuels in critical industrial processes, including the production of cement, ...
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Solarexpo and Greenbuilding open bookings for 2010
Solarexpo, the international exhibition and conference on renewable energy and distributed energy, and Greenbuilding, its sister event dedicated to energy efficiency and sustainable architecture, opened bookings for 2010 on 14 September. After only three days, the first three exhibition halls have already sold out. Solarexpo and Greenbuilding will be held at Verona Exhibition Centre, Italy, on ...
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CSP Technologies Compete With PV
The Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) market will rise again in 2012 and in the next five years, according to new research from SBI Energy. Emerging from an enforced hiatus by PV solar technologies, the global capacity of utility-scale CSP was 2 GW at the close of 2011 with approximately another 2500 to 3500 MW becoming operational in 2012. SBI Energy estimates the cost of the installed base of ...
By SBI Reports
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Xcel Energy To Test Battery Storage Technology In Stapleton
Xcel Energy is partnering with battery vendors Sunverge Energy and Northern Reliability, Inc. to test battery storage technology to maximize the use of rooftop solar energy while ensuring the safety and reliability of the electric grid. The two-year pilot project is taking place in Stapleton's North Central Park and Eastbridge neighborhoods. As customers' demand for solar energy in their homes ...
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Concentrated solar power with thermal energy storage can help utilities’ bottom line, study shows
The storage capacity of concentrating solar power (CSP) can add significant value to a utility company’s optimal mix of energy sources, a new report by the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) suggests. The report found that CSP with a six-hour storage capacity can lower peak net loads when the sun isn’t shining, enough to add $35.80 per ...
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NREL to Help Four Start-ups Ramp up Solar Energy Innovations
Companies with innovative, game-changing ways to lower the cost of solar energy have been awarded $5.8 million to work with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The SunShot Incubator Program is an expansion of DOE's successful PV Technology Incubator Program, launched in 2007, which to date has funded $60 million in projects and leveraged $1.3 billion in ...
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How to put “Carbon genie” back into the bottle?
The Carbon emission in the atmosphere is steadily increasing. The latest statistics indicates that it has reached a staggering 35.6 billion tons/yr, a 2.6% increase over the previous year, thanks to the growth of China. It is becoming evident that there is a relationship between the Carbon emission, global warming and erratic weather patterns around the world. According to ‘The ...
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Corporate Cleantech M&A Grew 153 Percent in 2011 Totaling $41.2 Billion
Cleantech Group™, a global research firm focused on cleantech innovation, today released preliminary 2011 results for clean technology venture and corporate investments around the globe, totaling $8.99 billion, a 13 percent increase over 2010. Cleantech mergers & acquisitions reached record highs in 2011 with 391 deals and a dollar volume of $41.2 ...
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Global CSP capacity reaches 4.95 GW; South Africa’s Redstone CSP project signs PPA after two-year delay
Our pick of the latest solar thermal news you need to know Global CSP capacity reached almost 5 GW at end of 2017 Global CSP capacity hit 4.95 GW at the end of 2017, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency’s annual report on global renewables capacity. The 100 MW Xina plant in Pofadder, South Africa was the only CSP plant to begin commercial operations in 2017, marking the ...
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