concentrated solar technology News
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SunOyster receives "Future Star Award"
Outside of the conference venue in China’s capital, the concentration of fine dust (PM 2.5) on the grey winter days equals with 272 μg/m³ almost seven times the European benchmark level for health risks. Inside, the 4th Bluetech International Clean Air Conference gathers 300 researchers, government officials and entrepreneurs who are hotly debating possibilities to improve the air ...
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GeoModel Solar joins CHILESOL 2014 exhibition this May
The solar data provider will be exhibiting its services at the 2nd Chilean Solar Conference & Exhibition in Santiago this May. On the 27th and 28th May Santiago will host the CHILESOL 2014 conference, which covers both utility scale solar technologies: concentrated solar power and photovoltaic. It will also feature a solar focused exhibition which GeoModel has joined this week. The ...
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Concentrating Photovoltaic (CPV) Technology Ready to Compete in Solar Market, According To GTM Research
While the CPV market remains a fraction of the world’s total installed solar base, at a mere 28 of the total 33,000 megawatts (MW), CPV technology is finally gaining momentum with multiple utility-scale project announcements over the past year. This growing pipeline of CPV represents a vote of confidence from solar developers for a technology that, to date, has been marginalized because it ...
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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 establishes US$30m centre to push Middle East renewables
Egypt has established a US$30 million centre for renewable energy for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).The Regional Centre of Excellence for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency, located at Nasser City, Cairo, was opened last week (25 June) at a ceremony in Cairo.It is supported by grants of US$11 million from the European Union through the European Investment Bank and the European ...
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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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Parabolic Trough report tackles lack of cost data for CSP plants
The new Parabolic Trough Report 2014: Cost, Performance and Thermal Storage published by CSP Today gives new clarity to cost and performance of concentrated solar power parabolic trough technology. As detailed in CSP Today’s Parabolic Trough Report 2014: Cost, Performance and Thermal Storage, the current global portfolio for the parabolic trough industry features over 65 operating plants ...
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Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Technological Leap at Noor Ouarzazate III
The Noor Ouarzazate III concentrated solar power (CSP) plant, part of the largest solar complex on Earth, is already in service in Ouarzazate, Morocco, and almost ready to enter commercial operation. Rated at 150 MW, it differs from two adjacent plants, Noor Ouarzazate I and Noor Ouarzazate II, already in operation, thanks to its novel technology: Noor Ouarzazate III uses a power tower with ...
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CSP with storage to play a unique role in the South African energy market
One of the key features of concentrated solar power (CSP) technology is the potential to operate with storage and provide a truly dispatchable renewable energy supply. With energy stability and supply a critical issue for South Africa, CSP is set to play a leading role in the energy mix South Africa’s energy supply is currently characterized by uncertainty. There is not enough power ...
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BrightSource Energy signs agreement with China to develop CSP
Recently, BrightSource Energy signed agreements with different Chinese institutions to provide their expertise on concentrated solar power technology (CSP). The agreements highlight the importance of China for the global CSP market, and it is another conquest for tower technology. Leading US developer BrightSource Energy signed Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with the China Power ...
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Solaria Corporation Raises a Total of $65 Million, Exceeding Financing Goal
FREMONT, Calif. - Solaria Corporation, a global manufacturer of solar photovoltaic modules, announced today that it raised more than anticipated in its just closed Series D financing round. The round’s total of $65 million dollars—which includes $10 million in a growth loan facility—is $20 million above the company’s original target, demonstrating investor and industry ...
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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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Timeline of CSP research and development in the U.S. revealed
CSP Today has produced a guide detailing all the legislative drivers to develop concentrated solar power (CSP) technology. The guide gives the details the 7 Department of Energy (DOE) funding initiatives which have been launched in the past year. The cumulative total of the initiatives runs into many billions of dollars – and is set to secure the future of CSP development for many years to ...
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NREL Helps DOE Assess Progress “On the Path to SunShot”
Analysts and researchers at the Energy Department's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) played a significant role in a suite of studies released today by DOE's SunShot Initiative that identify the progress made by the U.S. solar energy industry toward SunShot's goal of achieving cost parity with traditional energy sources by 2020. "We're close to 70 percent of the way toward ...
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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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NREL Report Finds Similar Value in Two CSP Technologies
Parabolic troughs and dry-cooled towers deliver similar value for concentrating solar power (CSP) plants, despite different solar profiles, a new report by the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has found. The report, “Estimating the Performance and Economic Value of Multiple Concentrating Solar Power Technologies in a Production Cost Model,” found that ...
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Scientists set new record for solar cells efficiency
Researchers at the Germany-based Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) announced that they have succeeded in improving the efficiency of solar cells, which are designed to convert available light into electricity. The quantum electronic phenomenon called the photovoltaic (PV) effect makes this possible. The team said the effectiveness of III-V semiconductor multi-junction solar ...
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Hyperlight Energy Awarded $1.5 Million from U. S. Department of Energy to Advance Low-Cost Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Collector
Hyperlight Energy, a developer and manufacturer of low cost Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technology, announced today that it was selected by the U. S. Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative to receive a $1.5 million award to develop a pilot CSP production line in San Diego, CA. The project will also validate a rapid field deployment design in a one-megawatt demonstration project at the ...
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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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Fotowatio adds four solar plants to portfolio; becomes one of largest solar operators
Within just two months of announcing a EUR 225 million investment from GE Energy Financial Services and Grupo Corporativo Landon, Fotowatio, one of Spain’s largest and most successful solar companies, announced today it acquired four solar photovoltaic power plants producing 32 megawatts of clean energy in Murcia, Spain. In addition to the portfolio of projects Fotowatio has developed and ...
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