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Winners of the CSP Today International Awards 2014
CSP Today is proud to announce the winners of the CSP Today International Awards 2014. The ceremony took place on Tuesday, 12th November, as part of CSP Today Sevilla. Thousands of online votes cast by the concentrated solar power industry were assessed by a panel of Judges comprising, Luis Crespo, President of ESTELA, Eduardo Zarza, Head of Solar Concentrating Systems at CIEMAT, Manuel ...
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Concentrated Solar Power Cost and Commodity Analysis
FREE CSP WEBINAR - 'Concentrated Solar Power Cost and Commodity Analysis' Thursday 31st October | 2-3pm GMT Can’t make it live? Sign up now and you’ll receive the full recording and slides straight to your inbox. 60-minute CSP Webinar Presentations and Q&A with: Parthiv Kurup, CSP Cost and Systems Analyst, NREL Prof Chris Sansom, Head of Centre - Renewable Energy ...
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CSP experts share their outlook on the state of the industry in 2012
Towards the end of last year the CSP sector in the U.S. saw more projects move towards construction. A total of 390MW of new CSP projects is currently under construction, Crescent Dunes developed by Solar Reserve, using tower technology with molten salts and a capacity of 110MW, and Mojave Solar developed by Abengoa using parabolic trough technology with a capacity of 280MW. This is in addition ...
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R&D plays a key role to decrease LCOE
Renewable energies have suffered huge changes in recent years, increasing their competitiveness with fossil fuels in both prices and efficiency. The cost of PV has fallen by 70% in the last 12 years, whilst wind has dropped to 60% in less than 30 years. CSP has a long way to develop and room for improvement, the learning curve is shorter compared to other energies but both experience and ...
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CSP technology advances crucial for cutting costs in international markets
With other renewable energy costs dropping, and CSP projects beset by delays and regulatory changes, it’s more and more important to optimize CSP plant to demonstrate their value to the energy mix. Plants in operation must maximize each megawatt, with increasing competition from other renewable energies and recent regulatory changes it’s crucial to reduce costs during the whole life ...
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A `quantum of sol` – how nanotechnology could hold key to solar-powered future
A new generation of 'nano-structured' millimetre-sized solar cells that could convert the sun's energy to electricity more than twice as efficiently as current technology, is the subject of an Imperial College London exhibit called 'A Quantum of Sol' at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2009, which opens to the public this week. Visitors to the exhibit will be able to play at being ...
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Department of Energy Announces $72 Million to Advance High-Temperature Concentrating Solar Power Systems
REcently (5/15), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $72 million for new projects to advance high-temperature concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies. These projects will extend previous research on high-temperature components, develop them into integrated assemblies, and test these components and systems through a wide range of operational conditions. CSP technologies use mirrors ...
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NREL, German solar energy researchers to work together
Scientists from the two nations to collaborate on next-generation PV and fuels German and American researchers will work together more closely on solar energy topics as a result of today’s signing of a Memo of Understanding (MOU) between the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the German Helmholtz Association. The MOU identifies several key ...
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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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U.S. Department of Energy Announces Five New Projects Through BIRD Energy Partnership with Israel
On November 1, 2017, The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in partnership with Israel's Ministry of Energy (MOE) and the Israel Innovation Authority announced $4.8 million for five newly selected energy projects as part of the Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Energy program. The approved projects will leverage cost-share for a total project value of $10.5 million in the areas ...
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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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MHI-led Consortium to Implement Feasibility Study with India`s Tata Group for Creation of Smart Community in Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Plan
Tokyo, Aug 26, 2011 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI) has reached an agreement with the Tata Group, India's largest business group, to conduct a feasibility study (F/S) for the creation of an environmentally friendly smart community which an MHI-led consortium has been promoting as part of India's Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) development plan. As the leader of ...
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Beam me up Sunny!
Solar power is for wimps. You'd be forgiven if that was the impression you had, given that it's been the (usually) implicit message coming from the oil and coal industries for decades now. Obviously, they don't want you to know about the real potential for solar energy. You can easily melt steel by concentrating the sun's energy, but... not a lot of people know that! Concentrating Solar Power ...
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TÜV Rheinland Validates Performance of Solar Panel Made with ENLIGHT™ Polyolefin Encapsulant Films
The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW) continues to take steps to validate the benefits of using ENLIGHT™ Polyolefin Encapsulant Films technology to help harness the power of the sun and turn it into useful energy for the world’s needs. Crystalline silicon PV (photovoltaic) modules made with ENLIGHT™ Polyolefin Encapsulant Films were performance tested ...
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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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Soitec Announces Industry´s First Four-Junction Solar Cell for Concentrator Photovoltaic Systems, Entering Industry´s Roadmap at World-Class Level with 43.6% Efficiency
Soitec (Euronext), a world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials for the electronics and energy industries, announced today the industry's first four-junction solar cell device, which works under concentrated sunlight, putting the company on the solar-energy industry's technology roadmap at a world-class level of an outstanding 43.6 percent efficiency. ...
By Soitec
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TEP Named Utility of the Year by Solar Electric Power Association
The Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) has recognized Tucson Electric Power (TEP) as the 2012 Investor Owned Utility (IOU) of the Year for the company’s leadership and continued investment in solar energy. “We’ve worked very hard to embrace solar energy as a clean, renewable resource for our customers and an opportunity for economic development ...
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SunPower Signs Joint Venture Agreement in China
SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR), a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, today announced that it signed a definitive agreement to form a joint venture with partners Tianjin Zhonghuan Semiconductor (TZS), Inner Mongolia Power Group (IMP) and Hohhot Jinqiao City Development Company (HJCD) for the manufacturing and deployment of the ...
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EU PVSEC 2015: Only 4 Days left to submit your Abstracts
Do not miss this opportunity to be part of the leading international PV Concerence. Be part of this leading international PV Conference and present your latest results to specialists and decision-makers from around the globe. You still have 4 days to submit your abstracts by this Monday, 16 February 2015! There are three great reasons to get involved in EU PVSEC 2015: be a part of the ...
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EU PVSEC 2015 in Hamburg, Germany: An innovation platform featuring more than 1,300 presentations
The 31st European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition (EU PVSEC 2015) taking place from 14 – 18 September 2015 at the CCH - Congress Center Hamburg, Germany, will be chaired by Dr.-Ing. Stefan Rinck, Chief Executive Officer of SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES AG. There will be 1,300 presentations from 6,500 authors and co-authors from 86 countries, with 40% of these presentations ...
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