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SolarReserve and ACWA Power officially announce its 100 MW CSP tower plant in South Africa
The 100 MW Redstone Solar Thermal Power Project in South Africa, owned by a SolarReserve led consortium with ACWA Power, has been nominated ‘preferred bidder’ by the Department of Energy (DOE). The Redstone Solar Thermal Power project was awarded preferred bidder in round 3.5 of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement (REIPPP), with the lowest tariff bid to date ...
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Ivanpah: Design & integration of the world’s largest solar thermal plant
As the attention of the CSP industry in the United States turns towards mastering the design, engineering and construction of large-scale plants, EPC (engineering, procurement & construction) groups have become a vital cog in guaranteeing the success of 100MW+ projects. Currently the most prominent example would be the work of Bechtel Corporation at Ivanpah, California, the $2.2 billion ...
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392MW Ivanpah Plant now connected to the grid
The world’s largest concentrated solar power development – the 392MW Ivanpah Solar Thermal Project is now online. There has been little fuss but one of the most iconic solar developments in the world has connected to the gird and is now producing clean power. The project spans over a vast 3500 acres with 170’000 heliostats and dominates the visual landscape of northeast San ...
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Sundhy(Chengdu) won the bid of reflectors procurement in CGNPC Yanqing 863 Trough solar thermal collection test project
Recently, Sundhy(Chengdu) Solar Power Co., ltd which is a subsidiary of Rayspower Group has successfully won the bid of reflector procurement in CGNPC Yanqing 863 Trough solar thermal collection test project which is the first public biding project for CSP reflector in China. It marked the official start of China CSP project. This invitation for bids made domestic equipments formally applied in ...
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Direct steam generation: increasing temperatures is crucial for CSP
Direct Steam Generation could hold the secret to reaching higher steam temperatures and simplifying balance of plant configurations for large-scale solar thermal projects. As the CSP industry moves forward into an era of large-scale development in the United States the ability to reach higher operational temperatures to improve the efficiency of solar thermal power production is at the forefront ...
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The power generation of Inner Mongolia Uratzhongqi 100MW Parabolic Trough CSP Project exceeds the design index
From 0:00 to 24:00 on September 10, 2021, China's first batch of solar thermal power generation demonstration project - Inner Mongolia Wulatzhongqi 100MW trough Thermal oil 10-hour Energy Storage solar thermal Power Generation Project (hereinafter referred to as "Wulat Project"), under cloudy weather conditions in the morning, the one-day power generation reached 2.128,000 kWh. Although there ...
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Indian CSP powers towards national solar mission targets
Experts at CSP Today believe important steps have been taken to sustain CSP growth in India It was announced last week that the Indian state of Rajasthan is accepting bids from solar developers for 2X50MW of new solar thermal projects. This will amount to 100MW of solar thermal capacity that will be awarded on a competitive basis. The pre-bidding process took place on 3rd January 2012, with the ...
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Supply chain roadblocks problematic for Indian CSP
CSP Today explore the difficulties that the Indian CSP industry have faced in treading the fine line between reliance on foreign expertise and building a local manufacturing base, as solar power ramps up in the country. Developing an indigenous supply chain for solar thermal power projects in India was a fundamental goal of the National Solar Mission (NSM), launched by the Indian Government in ...
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Australian CSP farm build starts; Brazil calls for solar thermal projects; New trough mirror responds to molten salt growth
Aalborg CSP begins build on 50 MW Australian farm project Denmark’s Aalborg CSP has started construction of the world’s first Integrated Energy System based on Concentrated Solar Power, located in the South Australian desert. The project involves a custom-built CSP tower system with a capacity of 50-MW, which will serve the energy needs of Sundrop Farms’ greenhouses. Aalborg ...
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ENSR provides environmental permitting for major new solar energy projects in California
ENSR is providing environmental permitting and licensing support for four major solar energy projects in southern California. ENSR, part of AECOM, is a leading global environmental services firm. To help secure the environmental permits for these important new energy projects, ENSR evaluated the projects’ potential environmental impacts on water resources, air quality, socioeconomic ...
By AECOM
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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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South Africa achieves its first CSP plant fuelled 100% by the sun
The 100 MW Redstone Solar Thermal Power Project will be located in Postmasburg, near Kimberley in the Northern Cape Province and will count with 12 hours of molten salt energy storage. "The Redstone project marks important technology advancement for South Africa in solar power," said SolarReserve's CEO Kevin Smith. The 100 MW tower plant with 12 hours of energy storage will be able to deliver a ...
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Emvelo’s CEO joins CSP Today South Africa 2014
Pancho Ndebele, CEO at Emvelo will be participating at CSP Today South Africa 2014 (8-9 April, Cape Town). Emvelo is one of the two 100 MW CSP bid winners in the third round of the REIPPPP. Emvelo’s long term vision is to develop and deploy a pipeline of CSP Projects at Karoshoek Solar Valley with is strategic partners and those investors and funders interested in CSP. The Karoshoek ...
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US renewable portfolio standard: Nowhere near a good FiT
7 May 2010 CSP Today talks to José C Martín, CEO of engineering firm SENER Engineering and Systems Inc, about what it will take to get the languishing US CSP sector back on its feet. José C Martín, CEO of engineering firm SENER Engineering and Systems Inc, says FiTs are the only way forward for CSP in the US By Rikki Stancich in Paris CSP Today: Why, in your view, have so many projects stalled ...
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Launch of new seminars for Decision Makers
Germany launches seminars for ministry staff and multipliers from 57 countries on renewable energy and energy efficiency On 30th August begins the new TREE (Transfer Renewable Energy & Efficiency) series of seminars for employees of ministries and multipliers from 57 countries at the Renewables Academy, Berlin. The goal is to train relevant stakeholders on technical, economic and legal ...
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Morocco hopes to shine in mega solar project
[ALGIERS] Morocco has launched what it claims is the biggest solar-thermal energy project in a single country, aiming to produce nearly 40 per cent of its electricity needs — 2,000 megawatts (MW) — by 2020. The project will span an area of 10,000 hectares — just under half the size of Cairo, Egypt — at five different locations in the country and use concentrated solar-thermal power (CSP), which ...
By SciDev.Net
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NRG Solar Cuts Ribbon on Alpine Solar Generating Facility
NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG), through its wholly owned subsidiary NRG Solar, announced that it will commemorate the opening of the Alpine Solar Generating Facility in Lancaster, Calif., at a ribbon-cutting event later this morning. Currently the largest fully operational solar facility in California, NRG's Alpine Solar Generating Facility, a 66-megawatt station in Lancaster, Calif., celebrated ...
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NRG Solar and Eurus Energy’s Avenal Solar Facility Starts Generating Power
NRG Solar, a subsidiary of NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG), and Eurus Energy America Corporation have begun commercial operations at the 45-megawatt Avenal Solar Generating Facility, the largest solar photovoltaic (PV) generating facility in California. The 45-megawatt Avenal Solar Generating Facility is the largest solar photovoltaic (PV) generating facility in California. ...
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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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BrightSource Launches Next Generation Solar Field Technologies
BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading concentrating solar power technology (CSP) company today announced advanced solar field technologies currently being deployed at the 121 megawatt (MW) Ashalim Solar Thermal Power Station located in Israel’s Negev Desert. The fourth generation of BrightSource’s solar field technologies features improvements to the heliostats, solar field ...
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