Solar Thermal Electric

EnergyNest and Azteq to pioneer night-time solar for global packaging company

Wednesday, 03 November 2021 Robin Whitlock Thermal battery storage company EnergyNest has announced it has entered an agreement with solar thermal developer Azteq to integrate a ThermalBattery system at a new concentrated solar thermal (CST) plant ...

Heliogen and Athena Technology Acquisition Corporation announce business combination

Wednesday, 07 July 2021 Robin Whitlock Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) Athena Technology Acquisition Corporation (Athena) has announced an agreement with Heliogen, a provider of AI-enabled concentrated solar power for a business ...

Heliogen raises $108 million to advance new renewable energy technology

Wednesday, 16 June 2021 Robin Whitlock Heliogen, a renewable energy company that has embarked on a project which uses solar energy to produce carbon-free energy for high-temperature heat, power, and green hydrogen applications, has announced ...

New partnership between Synhelion and Wood accelerates market entry of solar fuels

Thursday, 13 May 2021 Robin Whitlock Swiss solar fuel pioneer Synhelion has entered into a partnership with Wood, a global leader in consulting and engineering across energy and the built environment to rapidly bring solar-based synthetic ...

Solar Heat Europe and Liquid Gas Europe publish joint policy on carbon reduction

Thursday, 29 October 2020 Robin Whitlock Solar Heat Europe and Liquid Gas Europe have called on European, national, and local policymakers to take a comprehensive approach to emissions reduction focusing on cost-effective modernisation of heating ...

NREL and Acciona Solar Power develop technology to reverse costly effects of hydrogen buildup in CSP receiver fields

Thursday, 15 October 2020 Robin Whitlock One consistent challenge of CSP plants is hydrogen buildup, which can be costly to mitigate and reduces plant efficiency, so NREL has partnered with Acciona Solar Power to develop a systemic mitigation ...

Aalborg CSP Restarts Heat Exchanger Production in China

Friday, 27 March 2020 REM While a growing number of countries around the world are closing their borders to prevent any further spreading of the coronavirus and COVID/19, China seems to have succeeded in turning the curve around. ...

Central Tower of 700 MW CSP Project Tops Out in Dubai

Monday, 20 January 2020 REM Significant progress has been made in the Dubai 700 MW concentrated solar power project, announced as the world's largest single-site CSP project. On Jan 9th, 2020, a topping-out ceremony for the project's ...

REFRACTARIS Provides Heat Shield for New Solar Tower in China

Monday, 07 October 2019 REM

Spanish firm, REFRACTARIS, has designed and built the thermal heat shield for the Luneng Haixi, a new concentrated solar power plant located in China.

China

ABB awarded a second contract for integrated automation solution for Mongolian solar energy project

Friday, 02 August 2019 Robin Whitlock ABB has been awarded a second contract to deliver an integrated automation solution for a 100 MW Urat solar energy project in Inner Mongolia province, China, building on the success of an earlier CSP project ...