Solar Thermal Electric

Utility scale PV deals blow to csp, but growth not set in stone

Friday, 26 August 2011 REM Last week, our US correspondent, Dan McCue reported on news that the developers of what will probably be the world’s largest solar power plant, the Blythe Solar Power Project, have decided to employ ...

World's largest solar power plant shifts from csp to PV technology

Friday, 19 August 2011 Dan McCue Solar Trust of America, the firm behind what is expected to be the world’s largest solar power plant has shifted gears on its Blythe Solar Power Project in the US state of California, and will use ...

Supercritical carbon dioxide could hold the secrets for csp

Tuesday, 16 August 2011 REM As the solar industry prepares to meet in San Francisco in three week’s time, at the 2nd csp Plant Optimization Summit (7-8 September), Zhiwen Ma, Senior Engineer at NREL, has been speaking about ...

Performance, performance, performance

Monday, 18 July 2011 REM

Why is the performance testing of newly developed solar thermal electric plants important for the future of large scale projects in the US? This article tries to find the answer.

SENER and Torresol Energy honoured with US csp Today awards

Friday, 08 July 2011 REM Spain’s SENER technological group and Torresol Energy, a joint venture between the group and Abu Dhabi-based Masdar, have been awarded US csp Today awards in the categories of “engineering ...

Egypt

One of first solar-gas hybrid plants in the world goes live

Thursday, 07 July 2011 REM Even the recent social uprising in Egypt has not stopped Iberdrola from pushing forward with its plans to commission the 150-MW Kuraymat power plant due south of Cairo, which fuses solar energy with a ...

India

Titan Tracker design selected for pilot solar power tower system

Wednesday, 06 July 2011 Toby Price The Indian company, SunBorne Energy, is ambitious, aiming for grid parity for solar power in 2015. It wants to become a “thought leader” in the solar sector, and as part of this mission is ...

American csp industry receives huge boost from DoE

Monday, 20 June 2011 Toby Price 2011 will go down in the concentrated solar power (csp) industry’s history books as an excellent year. Following announcements for two loan guarantees in late 2010 to construct Ivanpah (a tower plant ...

Latin America

Abengoa to construct concentrated solar power plants in Chile, Mexico

Monday, 13 June 2011 Dan McCue

Spain’s Abengoa will develop concentrated solar power plants in the Atacama Desert in Chile and in Agua Prieta, Mexico, its first such projects in both countries.

Further costs savings achieved with new solar tracker

Tuesday, 07 June 2011 Toby Price Titan Tracker has released a new a generation of dual-axis solar trackers which it claims can reduce costs by about 30% thanks to “relevant improvements such as the centralisation of its elevation ...