Solar Thermal Electric

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 ...

Denmark

Aalborg CSP Secures Order for Industrial Solar Heating Plant in Denmark

Wednesday, 27 February 2019 Dan McCue Danish renewable energy company, Aalborg CSP, received a new order to deliver a 2.6 MWth solar-thermal plant in Denmark. With the system in Egedal, Aalborg continues its series of new projects based on ...

Dubai

Lointek Wins Major Contracts for World's Largest Thermosolar Power Plant

Thursday, 21 February 2019 REM Lointek has been selected for the turnkey supply of the integrated steam generation system and the oil-salt thermal storage system for DEWA IV, the world's biggest thermosolar power plant that will start ...

South Africa

Engie announces the commissioning of Kathu thermodynamic solar power plant

Thursday, 07 February 2019 Robin Whitlock

Engie has announced the commercial start-up of a 100 MW concentrated thermodynamic solar power plant (CSP) with parabolic trough technology and molten salt storage system at Kathu in South Africa.

The 100 MW Kathu CSP Plant Accomplishes First Synchronization

Wednesday, 28 November 2018 Dan McCue Spanish companies, SENER and ACCIONA, have reached a critical milestone in the construction project of Kathu Solar Park. Successful synchronization was achieved on November18th when electric power was ...