Solar Thermal Electric

PARIS "buffs up" solar fields

Tuesday, 12 June 2012 Toby Price PARIS is half vehicle, half robot. It has been designed, patented and manufactured by Sener as an automated parabolic trough cleaning system for solar thermal electric plants. According to its designers, ...

India

Low-cost solar thermal solutions launched for Indian industries

Tuesday, 22 May 2012 REM Maharishi Solar Technology has announced the launch of its parabolic trough, which it describes as “a low cost solar solution for Indian industries”. The technology is a result of the strategic tie-up ...

China's biggest nuke firm embraces rooftop CSP-biomass hybrid

Wednesday, 16 May 2012 REM China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Corporation (CGNPC), the nation's largest nuclear power company, has begun construction of a rooftop CSP-biomass power plant at its new regional headquarters in Singapore. ...

United States

Renewables create jobs, expand businesses in Nevada says Senator Reid

Friday, 16 March 2012 REM United States Senator Harry Reid released a new report this week that puts a bright spotlight on the importance and benefits of federal and state policies to support the development of renewable energy ...

Leading CSP companies form advocacy alliance to bolster US market

Thursday, 08 March 2012 REM Three of the world's leading concentrating solar power companies -- Abengoa, BrightSource Energy and Torresol Energy -- have formed an alliance to advocate for the technology to US regulators, utilities ...

Why solar chimneys could be the way forward

Friday, 17 February 2012 REM With the on-going decrease of fossil fuel resources and increasing worldwide pollution, there is a growing need for more environmentally friendly renewable energy sources. Johannes Pretorius, inventor ...

Spain

AORA unveils Europe’s first hybrid micro CSP demonstration project

Monday, 13 February 2012 REM Israel’s AORA Solar has launched a demonstration – its first in Europe – of its “Tulip System” hybrid micro CSP technology. The demonstration is located at just outside the southern Spanish city ...

Solarreserve reaches construction milestone, completing tower for groundbreaking project

Friday, 10 February 2012 REM SolarReserve, a US developer of large-scale solar power projects, has completed construction of the 540-foot solar power tower for its 110 MW Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant located near Tonopah, Nev. ...

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.

Tunisia

Saharan sun will light European homes by 2016

Monday, 30 January 2012 REM In the sands of North Africa, the Desertec Foundation’s vision for a future where the world's deserts supply clean and sustainable energy to the whole of humankind is beginning to take shape. That future ...