Solar Thermal Electric

indian CSP powers towards national solar mission targets

Wednesday, 11 January 2012 REM Experts at CSP Today believe important steps have been taken to sustain concentrating solar power (CSP) or solar thermal electric growth in india. Companies such as Siemens and Areva have announced that ...

India

Developers pulling out the stops to meet solar plan deadline

Monday, 19 December 2011 REM Solar thermal electric market intelligence provider, CSP Today, has revealed how indian developers are concentrating efforts to meet the deadline for Phase 1 of india’s solar plan, the Jawaharlal Nehru ...

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 ...

Abengoa completes india’s first solar-thermal power plant

Monday, 26 September 2011 REM

Abengoa has completed india’s first solar-thermal power plant in india, a 3 MW plant located in Gwal Pahari in the indian state of Haryana.

Spain

Spanish CSP – boom or bust?

Tuesday, 13 September 2011 REM The Spanish solar thermal electric trade association, Protermosolar, has announced that 4,293 square kilometres of concentrating solar power (CSP) plants (equivalent to 1% of Spain’s territory) could ...

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 ...

Global CSP industry reaches 40 GW

Thursday, 17 March 2011 Toby Price CSP Today has released the third edition of its CSP World Map 2011 coinciding with the 5th edition of the CSP Today USA conference. The map shows 230 concentrating solar power (CSP) plants in planning, ...

The ins and outs of DNI data for CSP development

Friday, 04 March 2011 Continuing its series of top tips for concentrating solar power (CSP) developers, CSP Today has released two top tips examining the use of Direct Normal Irradiance figures during the evaluation phase of ...

First in a series of “technical top tips” released for CSP developers

Tuesday, 15 February 2011 Toby Price With concentrating solar power (CSP) now finding new emerging markets such as india, Ferrostaal - a CSP project developer and EPC service provider - has joined force with CSP Today to prepare the first ...