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Renewables outperform fossil fuels in Chile tender
Last week Chile’s National Energy Commission awarded contracts for the supply of 1,200 gigawatt hours of energy to unregulated customers in Chile. Thirty-one companies competed for the 20-year contracts, with wind and solar projects going head-to-head on price with coal generation plant. As the winners were announced the results threw up some significant game changers which echo a new and ...
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Nominations open for the CSP today US awards 2011
The 2nd edition of the CSP Today Awards USA 2011 will take place on Tuesday, 28th of June, as part of CSP TODAY USA 2011 conference, in its 5th edition this year. The Concentrated Solar Thermal industry has got a hard year ahead, proving the viability of the projects in the pipeline and getting more projects from the planning phase to break ground. However, the industry has much development to ...
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Will India be a bigger concentrated solar thermal power than China?
Last year there was very little talk of India becoming one of the biggest markets for CSP. Today the question on everybody’s lips is: Will India be a bigger CSP power than China? As the founder of CSP Today and organizer of the 1st CSP Today India conference in New Delhi, Belén Gallego is often asked about the future of the CSP industry in India. She has written a piece about the ...
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Abengoa to develop new solar-thermal storage technology in collaboration with the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Colorado School of Mines
Abengoa (MCE: ABG.B/P SM /NASDAQ: ABGB), the international company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainability in the energy and environment sectors, together with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Colorado School of Mines (CSM), has been selected by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop a new solar storage technology for thermo-electric plants. ...
By Abengoa
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CSP Today International Awards open for nominations
The Awards, in their second year, recognize and promote industry excellence. From today, concentrated Solar Thermal power suppliers, developers and EPCs are able to nominate themselves to win one of the CSP Today International Awards. In order to respond to the developments over the past months in the industry, CSP Today has launched a different set of awards. This year for the first time, ...
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Solar research laboratory opened at Cranfield
Cranfield University today cemented its importance in the field of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) with the opening of the ‘Global CSP Laboratory’. The University is home to the largest CSP research activity in the UK and Cranfield is the only UK representative on the EERA (European Energy Research Alliance) Joint Committee on CSP. The new Global CSP Laboratory – the UK ...
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Sener and Masdar announce joint venture to develop concentrating solar power plants in the `Sunbelt`
Endeavour promises major advancement in solar generation price competitiveness Spanish engineering group SENER GRUPO DE INGENIERÍA S.A. and MASDAR, Abu Dhabi's alternative energy company, today announced a joint venture - Torresol Energy - to design, build and operate concentrating solar power (CSP) plants in the world's sunbelt regions. One of Torresol Energy's primary objectives is to widen ...
By MASDAR
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BrightSource Energy Files Application for Certification for Rio Mesa Solar Electric Generating Facility
BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading solar thermal technology company, has filed an Application for Certification (AFC) with the California Energy Commission to develop three 250 megawatt (nominal) solar power plants (750 megawatts combined) in California’s Riverside County. The plants, which will be located primarily on land owned by the Metropolitan ...
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Global CSP unveil cutting edge technology
Business weekly March 27th 2014 Cranfield University has cemented its importance in the field of Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) with the opening of the Global CSP Laboratory. The University is home to the largest CSP research activity in the UK and Cranfield is the only UK representative on the EERA (European Energy Research Alliance) Joint Committee on CSP. The new laboratory – the UK ...
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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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CSP Today International Awards open for nominations
The Awards, in their second year, recognize and promote industry excellence. From today, concentrated Solar Thermal power suppliers, developers and EPCs are able to nominate themselves to win one of the CSP Today International Awards. In order to respond to the developments over the past months in the industry, CSP Today has launched a different set of awards. This year for the first time, ...
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Ener-G-Rotors Focus Shifting from R&D to Commercialization
Cleantech company Ener-G-Rotors, Inc. received two funding awards to accelerate the company’s efforts to commercialize its state-of-the-art, waste-heat-to-electricity appliance, the GEN4, Ener-G-Rotors CEO Michael Newell announced today. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and National Grid awarded funding to assist Ener-G-Rotors as it moves toward ...
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The European solar thermal systems market set to double, says Frost & Sullivan
The market for solar thermal systems (STS) in Europe has witnessed significant developments at all levels in the last four years. Policy makers, market participants and end users have shown a keen interest in STS, ensuring a high growth potential. Due to its tremendous long-term growth prospects, this market has attracted several new participants that are playing a central role in promoting the ...
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Solar Keymark certification going strong ten years on!
Ten years ago, on 20 October 2003, the first ever Solar Keymark certificate was issued. Ten years later, the Solar Keymark is a success story, with around 2000 certificates for collectors and systems held by companies from 40 countries. The Solar Keymark was conceived ten years ago as a voluntary third-party certification mark for solar thermal products, demonstrating to end-users ...
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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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AES Solar’s Grant Feasey is short-listed for industry award
Grant Feasey from AES Solar, based in Forres, Scotland, was recently selected as an Engineering finalist in the Young Professionals Green Energy Awards. The awards, which will take place in Glasgow on May 26, showcases the enormous range of young talent in the renewables industry. After joining AES Solar as a graduate in 2011, Grant has worked his way up and is now the Senior Design Engineer at ...
By AES Ltd
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Panasonic appoint AES Solar as Scottish installer
Scottish-based AES Solar have been selected as a Panasonic Solar Premium Installer for Morayshire, The Highlands & North-East Scotland. Panasonic’s solar photovoltaic (PV) modules, including their highly efficient, heterojunction PV modules, will now be available through AES Solar. Daniel Roca, Senior Business Development Manager at Panasonic Eco Solutions Europe said: ...
By AES Ltd
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Building utility scale concentrated solar thermal power the “Indian way”
With the New Solar Mission ambitious goals that the Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy brought out on the 25th of July stipulating hard budgeting restrictions per MW as well as a firm schedule for starting construction of plants. With capital costs coming just over US$3 million per MW, the New Solar Mission might sound ambitious in the ears of international developers but, according to ...
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Building Utility Scale Concentrated Solar Thermal Power the “Indian way”
London 12/08/2010 With the New Solar Mission ambitious goals that the Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy brought out on the 25th of July stipulating hard budgeting restrictions per MW as well as a firm schedule for starting construction of plants. With capital costs coming just over $3 million per MW, the New Solar Mission might sound ambitious in the ears of international developers ...
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JFE Engineering and Solar Power Group sign technology licensing agreement for linear fresnel solar thermal power
JFE Engineering Corporation (JFEE) and Solar Power Group (SPG) have concluded a technology licensing agreement under which JFEE will commercialize SPG’s Fresnel technology having exclusive sales rights in Southeast Asia and Oceania. In addition, JFEE will also market Fresnel based solar thermal power plants in other countries around the world. JFE Engineering Corporation (JFEE) and Solar ...
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