concentrated solar project News
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Acciona and TSK to discuss challenges and successes of constructing Noor I CSP plant in Morocco at MENASOL
Acciona and TSK delegation to attend MENASOL (6-7 May, Dubai) and join a panel discussion on Morocco’s CSP industry and the lessons learnt on site in Ouarzazate The 160MW Noor I CSP project in Morocco has been under construction for almost a year and is expected to reach commercial operation in the second half of 2015. It is Morocco’s first concentrated solar power plant and is ...
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CSP industry set to see $8.6 billion revenue
A recent forecast has estimated the concentrated solar power industry is set to go from strength to strength with estimated $8.6 billion revenue by 2020. This is no surprise as in recent weeks the industry has been boasting positive news about the industry. This week Abengoa a leading developer involved in a number of major concentrating solar power (CSP) projects in the US, including the 280MW ...
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CSP projects miss deadlines in International Market
Four of the five concentrated solar power projects in India, with a total capacity of 470 MW have missed the scheduled commissioning date, 9th May, and are running way behind project schedule. The CSP potential in India is huge, with four CSP plants over 28 MW under construction, these projects are being built for the first time in India and now the government has decided to defer the penalties ...
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Focus on concentrated solar power: E.ON promotes research into heat storage systems
The new call for applications under E.ON’s international research initiative focuses on a highly topical energy trend: 'Heat storage for concentrated solar power'. This topic is the third key subject area on which E.ON is inviting universities and institutes worldwide to submit proposals for innovative research projects. Concentrated solar power (CSP) bundles the sun’s rays so that electricity ...
By E.ON AG
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U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Update
Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Office (LPO) Senior Investment Officer Khalid Abedin spoke at the opening event for the U.S. Energy Association’s CCUS Road Show on January 28, 2020, in Washington, DC. LPO staff will be participating at future events in New Orleans (March 17) and Houston (April 21). LPO will also be presenting at the ...
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Major CSP developers to discuss Southern Africa’s potential market
Renewable energy projects are advancing rapidly in Southern Africa, with new government support for independent power producers (IPPs) and new interest from investors. Southern Africa is seen by multiple analysts as one of the most important regions to develop renewable energies globally. Recently, 17 renewables projects were granted preferred bidder status under the last round of South ...
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Abengoa Awarded Two CSP projects by South Africa`s Department of Energy
SEVILLE, Spain, Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Abengoa (MCE: ABG), the international company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainable development in the energy and environment sectors, has been awarded the first two CSP projects in South Africa by South Africa's Department of Energy. These two projects contribute to South Africa's goal to introduce up to 17,800 MW of ...
By Abengoa
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The good, bad and ugly on CSP Project Development
Developing CSP projects in the US is a very challenging business, and the stages involved from getting it from the drawing board to construction phase, on average take up to 4 years. The secret to success is based upon essential pillars being in place: CSP site secured Connected to transmission line Profitable PPA signed Sufficient finance fixed Plant will be constructed within budget and ...
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The good, bad and ugly on CSP Project Development
Developing CSP projects in the US is a very challenging business, and the stages involved from getting it from the drawing board to construction phase, on average take up to 4 years. The secret to success is based upon essential pillars being in place: CSP site secured Connected to transmission line Profitable PPA signed Sufficient finance fixed Plant will be constructed within budget ...
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Abengoa presents its results for the first nine months of 2014
Strong business performance: double digit growth in EBITDA (24 %) and net income (38 %). Healthy contracting activity leading to backlog of €7,305 million. First drop down of assets to Abengoa Yield announced. Abengoa (MCE: ABG.B/P SM /NASDAQ: ABGB), the international company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainability in the energy and environment sectors, ...
By Abengoa
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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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U.S. Department Of Energy thinks that ‘exporting American CSP is a great opportunity’
In an interview Peter Davidson, the Executive Director of the Loan Programs Office (LPO) told CSP Today there are huge opportunities for US companies to take what they have learnt from major projects in the U.S. and start exporting overseas. In an interview with CSP Today, Davidson reflected on the LPO funding of over $5.4 billion to utility scale Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) projects such as ...
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Southern Africa set for a flood of renewable energy projects according to Frost & Sullivan
Despite the considerable potential that exists to produce electricity using renewable energy (RE) in Southern Africa, RE projects have been largely limited to off-grid, small-scale applications. However, the renewable energy market in South Africa is expected to grow exponentially in the next few years, owing to the announcement of the renewable energy feed-in tariff made in March 2009. New ...
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Grid Integration of Large Scale Renewables in the MENA Region
Renewables Academy starts a new capacity building project for Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria and Tunisia on grid integration of renewable energies In order to empower professionals in the MENA region to be able to cope with high volumes of renewable energy power in their electricity systems, the Renewables Academy AG (RENAC) was commissioned by the Federal Ministry for the ...
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Introducing the best of the continent’s power and water people and projects: the African Utility Week Industry Awards finalists
Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront’s Solar Farm, Nigeria’s Genesis Energy, Nairobi City Water in Kenya and Sierra Leone’s Kandeh Yumkella of the SE4All Initiative are just some of the exciting and pioneering power and water professionals, utilities and projects that have been named as finalists for this year’s African Utility Week Industry Awards. Other success stories ...
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Emerson to apply Ovation technology at first U.S. commercial-scale solar power facility with fully integrated energy storage
Ovation platform’s integrated control and diagnostics will deliver operations and maintenance efficiencies at the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant Emerson Process Management has been awarded a contract to apply its Ovation expert control system at the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project near Tonopah, Nevada. When it comes online at the end of 2013, this 110-MW concentrated solar power ...
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NREL Finds Up to 6-cent per Kilowatt-Hour Extra Value with Concentrated Solar Power
Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) projects would add additional value of 5 or 6 cents per kilowatt hour to utility-scale solar energy in California where 33 percent renewables will be mandated in six years, a new report by the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has found. The report, “Estimating the Value of Utility-Scale Solar Technologies in California Under a ...
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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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Abengoa Closes $1.2 Billion Financing for the Mojave Solar Project and Starts Construction
Abengoa, the international company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainable development in the energy and environment sectors, announced today that it has finalized a $1.2 billion loan guarantee with the Department of Energy to build the Mojave Solar Project. This concentrating solar power (CSP) plant will use advanced proprietary parabolic trough technology that will increase ...
By Abengoa
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Economy, planet in trouble: green energy to the rescue?
With a tipping point in climate change maybe a few years out, perhaps triggered by the soon completely melted summertime Arctic ice cap, we’re probably well past the point where a semi-market-based-only approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions, like cap-and-trade, will do any good. Government needs to step in. Among the measures that can be done now is to continue to build emission free ...
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