Solar Thermal Electric

Masdar, Total and Abengoa launch world’s largest CSP plant

Tuesday, 19 March 2013 REM

Masdar, along with its partners, Total and Abengoa, has launched Shams 1, the largest concentrated solar power plant (CSP) in operation in the world.

Magnetohydrodynamics: a breakthrough for high efficiency concentrated solar

Tuesday, 12 June 2012 Toby Price Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has announced the signing of an exclusive license agreement with Concentrating Solar Power Utility, Inc. for a breakthrough solar power technology utilising magnetohydrodynamics ...

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 ...

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 ...

MENA

Jasmine revolution an opportunity for solar development

Wednesday, 13 April 2011 The socio-economic changes facing the North Africa and Middle East region has provided a great opportunity for solar development. During a recent webinar hosted by MENASOL 2011, Dr Nazar Hassan, Deputy ...

Spain

Japanese and Spanish close deal for solar thermal power plant

Friday, 01 April 2011 A subsidiary of the citizen services group, FCC, and the Japanese company Mitsui, have closed the funding for the Gúzman solar thermal power plant with a €226 million loan. Japanese bank Mizuho ...

FCC and Mitsui partner to harness the Spanish sun

Wednesday, 17 November 2010 Spain’s FCC Energía and the Japanese multinational Mitsui & Co. Ltd. have joined forces to develop the Guzmán solar thermal electric plant in Palma del Río (Córdoba, ...

Alstom enters solar thermal electric market through BrightSource Energy

Friday, 21 May 2010 Alstom has announced it is investing up to $55 million in solar thermal electricity company, BrightSource Energy Inc., with an equity stake that positions Alstom as one of the main shareholders in the ...

Renovalia Energy and Iberdrola Renovables pave the way for the second generation of solar thermal electric plants

Tuesday, 20 April 2010 Both companies have agreed to evaluate "second-generation solar thermal electric equipment" at Iberdrola Renovables’ complex in Puertollano (Spain). The uniqueness of this equipment is ...

Solar thermal electric odyssey?

Tuesday, 20 April 2010 2013 will be a key milestone for the solar thermal electric industry. At least that is what leading members of Protermosolar, the Spanish solar thermal electric trade association, think. Until then, those ...