Solar Thermal Electric

CSP technology market will revive in 2012, compete with PV soon, report says

Tuesday, 07 February 2012 REM

The Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) market will begin rise again in 2012 and its growth will be steady and certain over the next five years, according to new research from SBI Energy.

Spain

Lebrija CSP plant now sending juice to the grid

Monday, 23 January 2012 REM The Lebrija solar thermal power plant located in southern Andalucía in Spain is now feeding electricity into the power grid. On December 27, 2011, the plant, erected as an EPC project by Siemens and Valoriza ...

Solar thermal electricity goes global

Tuesday, 18 October 2011 Toby Price In an announcement timed to coincide with the International Energy Agency's (IEA) biennial Ministerial Meeting in Paris today, the industry associations representing the solar thermal electricity industry ...

CSP Today two-part guide to South Africa

CSP alternative to coal in South Africa

Monday, 17 October 2011 REM In Part 2 of the CSP Today South Africa Guide, we look at how South Africa should be readily embracing concentrating solar power (CSP) as a low-carbon, sustainable, base load energy alternative to coal. ...

Spain

Spanish solar thermal electric plant starts supplying clean power to Munich

Tuesday, 04 October 2011 Toby Price Last week saw the opening of the Andasol 3 solar thermal electric plant by a consortium of five German companies in the Spanish province of Granada. The completion of the third Andasol power plant on a ...

Green light for hybrid solar and geothermal project

Thursday, 18 August 2011 Toby Price Enel Green Power has been granted final regulatory approval to develop a ground-breaking new renewable energy plant in Nevada (US). The plant will combine solar and geothermal power, making it one of the ...

Spain

Close to two million euros for research into solar-biomass hybridisation

Thursday, 28 April 2011 No sooner said than done. A couple of weeks ago, Valeriano Ruiz, President of Spain’s Advanced Technology Centre for Renewable Energy (CTAER), told Renewable Energy Magazine that solar-biomass hybridisation ...

Spain

CSP one of the few sectors not to suffer severe recession

Friday, 15 April 2011 During the three years between 2008 and 2010, 750,000 jobs were lost in Spain’s industry. At the same time, this European country commissioned 17 solar thermal electric power plants, creating thousands ...

Google investing $168 million in world’s largest solar tower plant

Tuesday, 12 April 2011 Dan McCue Internet Search giant Google continues to make a splash in the renewable energy sector, announcing this morning that it is investing $168 million (€115.9 million) to help develop the world’s ...

Spain

Solar-biomass hybridisation on the increase

Monday, 04 April 2011 Last month saw work start on the construction of a solar thermal electric plant that will combine solar energy and biomass. The plant being developed by Abantia and Comsa Emte is the second solar-biomass ...