Concentrated Solar News
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$30M in New Funding to Advance Concentrating Solar-thermal Technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced the Solar-thermal Fuels and Thermal Energy Storage Via Concentrated Solar-thermal Energy funding opportunity, which will award $30 million for projects to produce fuels via renewable energy resources and improve thermal energy storage technologies. The research, development, and demonstration projects resulting from ...
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Renewables Competitiveness Accelerates, Despite Cost Inflation
The fossil fuel price crisis has accelerated the competitiveness of renewable power. Around 86 per cent (187 gigawatts) of all the newly commissioned renewable capacity in 2022 had lower costs than fossil fuel-fired electricity. Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2022, published by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) this week (Aug 29) shows that the renewable power added in 2022 ...
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Cemex and Synhelion make further progress toward the world’s first fully solar-powered cement plant
Cemex and Synhelion announced today a significant milestone in their joint effort to develop fully solar-driven cement production: the scaling of their technology to industrially-viable levels. This includes the continuous production of clinker, the most energy-intensive part of cement manufacturing, using only solar heat. At the beginning of 2022, the companies announced the first-ever ...
By Synhelion SA
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DOE Breaks Ground on Concentrating Solar Power Pilot Culminating $100 Million Research Effort
The U.S. Department of Energy celebrated the groundbreaking of its Generation 3 concentrating solar-thermal pilot facility at Sandia National Laboratories. This demonstration is the culmination of a $100 million research effort to develop next-generation concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) plants and showcase storage technology that could provide one gigawatt of storage for one hour at a ...
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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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Heliogen, Inc. Schedules Release of Third Quarter 2022 Financial Results and Conference Call
Heliogen, Inc. (“Heliogen”) (NYSE: HLGN), a leading provider of AI-enabled concentrated solar energy, today announced that it will release financial and operating results for the third quarter 2022 after the market close on Monday, November 7, 2022. This release will be followed by a conference call for investors at 10:00 AM EST on Tuesday, November 8. Bill Gross, Heliogen’s ...
By Heliogen
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Heliogen, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2022 Financial And Operational Results; Reports Progress On Scale Up Of Long Beach Facility
Heliogen, Inc. (“Heliogen”) (NYSE: HLGN), a leading provider of AI-enabled concentrated solar energy technology, today provided its second quarter 2022 financial and operational results and reaffirmed its previously announced guidance for 2022. Second Quarter 2022 Highlights Finalized and executed a lease for Brenda Solar Energy Zone with U.S. Bureau of Land Management Announced ...
By Heliogen
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IEA Report: The World Needs More Diverse Solar Panel Supply Chains
Ensuring a secure transition to net zero emissions will require increased efforts to expand and diversify global production of solar panels whose global supply chains are currently heavily concentrated in China, the IEA said in a new special report released this week. Chinese industrial and innovation policies focused on expanding solar panel production and markets have helped solar PV become the ...
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Solar Plate: An Overview
With the passage of time and the rapid advancement of technology, it is necessary to take steps toward environmental sustainability. People now prefer renewable energy sources to conventional energy sources to safeguard the environment. The UK government has taken a good step toward environmental conservation by implementing the Feed-in-Tariff scheme. They have demonstrated to the rest of the ...
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What is a PV Solar System? A Complete Guide
Solar energy has been quickly emerging as an alternative energy source. As of now, the country’s solar installed capacity was 48.556 GW as of November 2021. The nation’s solar capacity has grown eighteen times in the last seven years. At an event, the Minister of State for Environment Ashwini Choubey said “Installed capacity of solar energy in India has increased by more than ...
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Nanofoils Are Now Available at Alfa Chemistry for Wide Applications
As an outstanding member of the nanomaterial family, nanofoil has enjoyed extensive popularity in either the research community or the manufacturing industry. Earlier this month, the US-located chemical supplier Alfa Chemistry announces that diverse nanofoils are now commercially available for customers across the globe. Made up of thousands of nanoscale foils, nanofoil can be divided into many ...
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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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300MW CSP?Golmud 3.82GW PV+CSP+ESS Multi-energy Complementary Project Commenced
The GolmudWutumeiren Multi-energy Complementary Project, which is developed and will be implemented and constructed by China Green Development Group Qinghai New Energy Company (CGDG Qinghai New Energy), was commenced today. The project is located in Wutumeiren PV&CSP Park, Golmud City, Qinghai Province, with total investment of 19.575 billion CNY (3 billion USD). The planned total installed ...
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Majority of New Renewables Undercut Cheapest Fossil Fuel on Cost
The share of renewable energy that achieved lower costs than the most competitive fossil fuel option doubled in 2020, a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) shows. 162 gigawatts -- or 62 per cent of total renewable power generation added last year -- had lower costs than the cheapest new fossil fuel option. Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2020 shows that costs for ...
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What We Know -- and Do Not Know -- About Achieving a National-Scale 100% Renewable Electric Grid
With recently announced federal emissions-reduction targets, a push for national power-sector decarbonization, and plummeting wind and solar costs, the United States is poised to deploy major amounts of renewables, and fast. At smaller scales, hundreds of U.S. cities, states, and corporations have already taken bold action in setting their own local targets for 100% renewable energy and with ...
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The need for an EU-wide renewable risk mitigation scheme in the Renewable Energy Directive
Dear Executive Vice-President Timmermans and Commissioner Simson, We call on you to establish an EU-wide renewable risk mitigation schemes to de-risk private sector investment in capital-intensive renewable energy solutions in the Renewable Energy Directive. Member States are obliged to reduce the capital cost of renewable energy technologies under Article 3.5(1) of the Renewable Energy ...
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Denmark to Invest Millions in Wind, Wave, Hydro, Solar Power
A Danish aid plan to support electricity production from renewable sources has won the approval of the European Commission. Denmark will invest €400 million (nearly US$481 million) to support renewables such as onshore and offshore wind turbines, wave power plants, hydroelectric power plants and solar photovoltaics. The Commission found that the aid is necessary to further develop the ...
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Global Thermal Energy Storage Market Expected to Reach USD 8558.34 Million by 2026
A recent report from Facts and Factors Research finds that the global thermal energy storage market in 2019 was approximately USD 4,281.6 Million. The market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 10.4% and is anticipated to reach around USD 8558.34 Million by in 2026. Thermal energy storage is referred to as a technology that stocks thermal energy by cooling or heating a storage medium. Later on, the ...
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MGM Transformer Welcomes Joseph E. Biben Sales Corp to the team
MGM is pleased to welcome Joseph E. Biben Sales Corp. to the team. Operating with a staff of 21 from a 66,000 sqft warehouse/ HQ facility located in Folcroft, Pennsylvania. Biben Sales under the direction of Gene Biben, CEO and Bill Solomon, President, Biben covers the territory of Eastern PA, Southern NJ, Delaware, MD and 5 counties in Northern VA. with 12 sales engineers spread across two ...
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Industry-first EPC Best Practice Guidelines set global standard for solar sector
During the virtual Solar Quality 2020 event, SolarPower Europe’s Lifecycle Quality Workstream presented an industry-first Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) Best Practice Guidelines, version 2.0 of its industry-standard Asset Management Best Practice Guidelines, as well as the Asset Management Best Practice Mark, a voluntary quality label for providers that includes a ...
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