CSP plant Articles
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Bill Gates-backed CSP group hits 1,000° C; Terraform buys more Spanish CSP plants
US CSP group surpasses 1,000° C using greater reflector accuracy U.S. CSP technology start-up Heliogen has achieved temperatures exceeding 1,000° C by improving the reflectiveness of CSP tower arrays, the company announced November 19. Heliogen's technology uses cameras and advanced computer vision software to align heliostats more accurately and increase solar efficiency. Backed by ...
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Solar thermal power coming to a boil
After emerging in 2006 from 15 years of hibernation, the solar thermal power industry experienced a surge in 2007, with 100 megawatts of new capacity coming online worldwide. During the 1990s, cheap fossil fuels, combined with a loss of state and federal incentives, put a damper on solar thermal power development. However, recent increases in energy prices, escalating concerns about global ...
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A CSP developer`s DNI dream
In an emerging CSP market such as South Africa, one of the many challenges developers face is siting the project based on acquiring accurate Direct Normal Irradiation data, as optimal siting of CSP plants is a key component to plant efficiency, and ultimate profitability. London, UK, August 24 2011 DNI plays a role because it is used to predict the output of concentrated solar power stations ...
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Egypt set to pick supplier for first CSP plants; Azteq installs Europe’s first industrial solar thermal plant
Egypt advances plan for five new CSP plants The Egyptian government and Cairo-based Smart Engineering Solutions are moving ahead with a plan to build five CSP plants for a total capacity of 250 MW, Egyptian media reported earlier this month. Smart Engineering Solutions plans to select the preferred technology supplier from a shortlist of 16 companies by the end of November, Osama Kamal, the ...
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Morocco extends deadline for Noor Midelt II bids; Lebanon launches feasibility study for first CSP plant
Morocco extends tender deadline for 230 MW Noor Midelt II project The Moroccan Sustainable Energy Agency (Masen) has extended the tender deadline for the 230 MW Noor Midelt II CSP-PV project by a "few additional weeks" to later this month, Moroccan media reported October 9. The Noor Midelt II tender was launched in July and developers originally had until September 16 to submit their project ...
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Energy performance India vs. Spain: As the DNI values are similar, how is the energy yield?
Technical Top Tip courtesy of Suntrace Solar Resource Assessment 1. Comparison between India and Spain When it comes to solar irradiation in India, everyone would expect this to be better when compared to Spain, for example. With respect to the Global Horizontal Irradiation GHI, which is relevant for Photovoltaic (PV) projects, this is truly the case. In regard to Direct Normal Irradiation ...
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Examining the very latest updates on CSP Plants around the world
The CSP industry has seen several plants leaving the status of ‘planning’ or ‘under construction’ to operation in the last 12 months, most of them located in Spain and the US. In fact, between 2010 and 2011, Spain installed 410 MW and the USA 79MW. Invaluable data like this and more has been compiled as part of CSP Today’s latest report: The Concentrated Solar Power ...
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Morocco`s first CSP plant forges path to tech-led cost cuts
The imminent start-up of Morocco's Noor I CSP Plant will be followed by lower cost adjacent plants thanks to technology gains such as larger trough apertures which have eclipsed the impact of higher cost dry cooling systems, Driss Berraho, Business Development Manager at ACWA Power, told CSP Today. A consortium led by ACWA Power started construction on the 160 MW Noor I project in Ouarzazate, ...
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Saudi Arabia doubles its project pipeline capacity in Q3
The third quarter of 2014 saw Saudi Arabia double its CSP project pipeline capacity with the request from the Saudi Electricity Company (SEC) that a 50 MW CSP plant be included within the 1 GW Waad Al-Shamal shale gas project in Tarif. Currently the market boosts a 50 MW announced capacity with the Waad Al Shamal Power Plant and 50 MW project in development with Duba 1. The latest project ...
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CSP players work towards JNNSM deadline
CSP Today take another look at the steps that developers in India are taking to meet the National Solar Mission deadlines next year In December 2010 the Phase I bidding process of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) in India was completed with more than sixty companies submitting bids. It is now widely agreed that Phase I resulted in aggressive bidding on the part of project ...
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Capex of modular CSP plants could halve if 1 GW deployed
Soon to complete its first full-scale module in Morocco, CSP developer 247Solar predicts series build gains could reduce capex to $3,000/kWe and sees advantages for industrial energy supply. Last month, 247Solar announced it will build its first fully-operational demonstration Brayton cycle CSP plant module at the Ouarzazate solar park in central Morocco. Due online in the first half of ...
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Developing a CSP strategy for the Middle East and North Africa
For the concentrated solar power industry, the MENA region represents a key pocket of opportunity. But understanding and explaining the CSP proposition is also a challenge that needs to be tackled. After the Shams 1 CSP plant was commissioned earlier this year, industry figures have been looking to see where a pipeline can develop for the technology in the region. This is one of the key ...
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South Africa Update – DOE confirms players for Window 3.5
After months of waiting, South Africa’s Department of Energy has finally announced the financial close of Window 3 and the preferred bidders for Window 3.5. By Jenny Muirhead The DOE released a statement on 12 December 2014 outlining the outcomes of both Window 3 and the CSP-specific Window 3.5 under its Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Program (REIPPPP). ...
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CSP and mining in Chile
With a mining industry that produces 35% of the world´s copper, it is imperative for Chile´s economic growth to produce energy from a source that is secure, dispatchable and unlimited. In an exclusive online webinar last week, hosted by CSP Today, experts discussed the positive impact that solar CSP could have on Chile’s mining industry. With many mining markets located in ...
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Determining performance characteristics crucial for CSP
As the development of large-scale CSP projects begins in the United States, the ability to accurately determine the performance characteristics in the efficiency, heat losses and overall power output of plants under operation is essential for generating widespread confidence in CSP technologies. After more than 10 years in hibernation, parabolic trough technology has been revived again with ...
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Noor Midelt winner optimizes CSP trough, storage to hit record price
An EDF-led group has won the Noor Midelt I project in Morocco with an integrated parabolic trough CSP-PV design which uses multiple energy storage types in a new efficiency breakthrough, TSK, the project's EPC and technology supplier, told New Energy Update. On May 21, Morocco awarded the Noor Midelt I CSP-PV project to a consortium led by France's EDF at a new record low price of 68 ...
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CSP industry gears up ‘to take advantage’ of new opportunities
The recent announcement of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed new carbon emission standard for future coal-fired power stations has given the CSP industry yet another huge boost in the fight for an established place in the US energy market, through the use of hybrid CSP plants. This is just one example of the new opportunities this innovative industry is able to take advantage ...
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CSP cost forecasts undervalue benefit to future grid balancing
CSP generation costs could drop to $77/MWh by 2025 but storage and hybrid solar plants can provide further value by following load, Jose Alfonso Nebrera, Director of Spanish engineering firm ACS SCE, said at the MENASOL 2016 conference on May 26. Global renewable energy expansion is reducing the cost of solar and wind energy while increasing grid intermittency and the need for dispatchable power ...
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Italy: the next CSP hotspot?
Italy could potentially have a booming CSP market, thanks to high DNI levels in the southern parts of the country and in the main islands of Sardinia and Sicily – where one of the newest CSP plants, the 50 MW Mazara, is being built. Feed-in-tariffs (FiTs) for CSP generation and industrial needs for process heat should make the market even more attractive. So why aren't developers flocking ...
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BLM issues licenses for two California solar plants
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has approved the construction of two solar power plants in California, the first of nine solar projects that could get the go-ahead to begin construction by the end of the year and thereby qualify for federal tax credits. BLM issued permits for the 709 MW Imperial Valley Solar Project, a concentrating solar power (CSP) plant that Tessara Solar is developing ...
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