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Gemasolar to tower over New Delhi

Torresol Energy will present the critical lessons learned from Gemasolar to the Indian CSP community Torresol Energy paved the way for the development of a new generation of CSP technology, when the Gemasolar thermosolar project became the first commercial-scale plant in the world to apply central tower receiver and molten salt heat storage technology. The relevance of this plant lies in its ...

Jan. 16, 2012

By New Energy Update

Dates for CSP Today’s site visit to Gemasolar just announced

While some consider that there is no future for CSP in the long term, many others strongly believe that there are still plenty of opportunities for the industry, due to the uniqueness and convenience of this technology. Given the dispatchability of the CSP, clean and reliable power can be generated and distributed when needed, accommodating a larger share of variable energy sources while ...

Oct. 2, 2012

By New Energy Update

Dates for CSP Today’s site visit to Gemasolar just announced

While some consider that there is no future for CSP in the long term, many others strongly believe that there are still plenty of opportunities for the industry, due to the uniqueness and convenience of this technology. Given the dispatchability of the CSP, clean and reliable power can be generated and distributed when needed, accommodating a larger share of variable energy sources while ...

Oct. 2, 2012

By New Energy Update

How Gemasolar changed the landscape for CSP

Torresol Energy’s Gemasolar tower plant represents one of the most important milestones in the history of CSP, the audience of a recent CSP Today webinar has heard. Santiago Arias remembers the reaction he got when people found out his company was looking into CSP storage at a SolarPACES conference six years ago. “Most of our competitors said we were mad to do something nobody was ...

Oct. 31, 2011

By New Energy Update

World`s tallest CSP tower completed; Spanish CSP output hikes 16.8%

Shanghai Electric completes Noor Energy 1 CSP tower in Dubai Construction partners on the 950 MW Noor Energy 1 CSP-PV project in Dubai completed the 260-meter high receiver tower on January 9, Shanghai Electric, lead EPC contractor, said in a statement. The $4.4 billion Noor Energy 1 project will be the world's largest CSP plant and includes a 100 MW CSP tower plant, three 200 MW parabolic ...

Jan. 29, 2020

By Reuters Events

Ban Ki-moon to Launch UN’s International Year of Sustainable Energy for All at World Future Energy Summit 2012 in Abu Dhabi

His Excellency Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, will return to the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) 2012 to launch the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All. This will be Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s second consecutive year addressing Heads of State and international delegates at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu ...

Jan. 11, 2012

By MASDAR

No show stoppers for concentrating solar power

A recently published study confirms that solar thermal power is largely unrestricted by materials availability. There are, however, some issues that the industry needs to look into soon, like replacing silver in mirrors. In the wake of Chinese export restrictions on rare earth metals, the dependence of some renewable technologies on scarce materials has gained attention. Several players in the ...

Jul. 4, 2012

By FLS Energy

Gemasolar aerial images taken from the Solar Impulse zero-fuel airplane

Gemasolar, the most innovative solar thermal plant in the world, owned by Torresol Energy – a joint venture between the engineering and technology group SENER and Masdar – has been photographed from the air by the zero-fuel airplane Solar Impulse, that landed in Seville (Spain) on June 23rd, days before completing its historic bid to circumnavigate the globe without fossil fuels. On ...

Jul. 11, 2016

By Torresol Energy

Israel’s 121 MW Ashalim Plot B plant set for 50% expansion but regulation stunts other projects

“There is a very large shadow covering Israel’s real potential for CSP based applications. The reason for this shadow is primarily driven by existing energy laws, government regulation, political structure and incentive approach nationwide,” Gadot told CSP Today. Gadot’s comments come a month after Megalim, developer of Ashalim Plot B, said it is in talks with the ...

Jul. 10, 2015

By New Energy Update

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