The solar energy project will use three technologies to produce clean energy: 600MW from a parabolic basin complex, 100MW from a concentrated solar power tower and 250MW from photovoltaic panels. Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has signed an amendment to the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power …
SolarReserve Receives $2.0 Million Award from U.S. Department of Energy to Advance American Innovation in Concentrated Solar Power Technology
SolarReserve, a leading worldwide developer of large-scale solar power projects and advanced solar thermal technology, announced it was selected to receive a $2.0 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to advance concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) research and development. With energy storage technology that can store the heat generated …
Webinar about Concentrated Solar Power in Australia
Australia possesses one of the highest Direct Normal Irradiation (DNI) resources in the world. It’s expected that by the end of 2018 there will be 1.8GW of cumulative solar capacity available compared to less than 200MW in 2012. What is more, the ability to store and dispatch is key to the country. The MENA CSP …
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Climate Policy that Actually Works: How Morocco is Meeting its Clean Energy Goals
Morocco’s secret: MASEN (the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy) is actually a renewable energy “one stop shop” – from climate policy to completed projects IMAGE @MASEN An interview reveals Morocco’s secret: MASEN (the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy) is actually a renewable energy “one stop shop” – starting with climate policy, through needs assessment, planning, …
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ARPA-E Awardees Aim to Store Energy for up to 4 Days
Source: ARPA-E Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar announced the DAYS awardees today at the Innovation XLab Energy Storage Summit at SLAC National Laboratory IMAGE@ARPA-e The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the selection of 10 projects as part of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, DAYS; Duration Addition to electricitY Storage. Awardees …
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SolarReserve’s Aurora Solar Project Signs MOU for 13,000 Aussie Heliostats
SolarReserve’s heliostats for Australia’s Port Augusta solar thermal energy project are to be made in South Australia by Heliostat SA IMAGE@NREL US solar developer SolarReserve has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Australian firm Heliostat SA, to partner in manufacturing and assembling heliostats and heliostat components for the 150 MW Aurora …
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Morocco’s first CSP tower plant enters final test stage; Abengoa boosts EBITDA but revenues fall
Morocco Noor III tower plant nears completion after synchronizing to grid Spain’s Sener has completed the first synchronisation to grid of ACWA Power’s 150 MW Noor Ouarzazate III (Noor III) central tower plant in Morocco and will soon start final tests before commissioning, Sener announced September 26. The Noor III plant is equipped with 7.5 …
CSP experts warn capex gains needed to ensure desalination future
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced it would provide $21 million to 14 new solar thermal desalination projects which aim to reduce costs and open up the technology to new markets. The research projects cover a range of desalination technologies and are expected to take up to three years to complete. Elsewhere, researchers …
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SolarReserve to make Aurora heliostats in Australia; Miners poised to hunt renewables contracts: Fitch
SolarReserve signs Australian heliostat supply deal for Aurora project U.S. CSP developer SolarReserve has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Australian firm Heliostat SA for the supply and assembly of heliostats for its 150 MW Aurora Solar Energy Project near Port Augusta, South Australia. The AU$650-million Aurora project will use SolarReserve’s CSP tower technology and …