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On 30th,December,2018, Supcon Solar Delingha 50MW Tower CSP has successfully connected to the grid. Supcon Solar has delivered its promise of on-time grid-connection to the National Energy Administration. Supcon Solar Delingha 50MW Tower CSP is one of China’s first batch CSP Demonstration Projects. The project is developed, invested, designed, constructed and will be O&M by …
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Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) projects — involving the use of mirrors in place of photovoltaic (PV) panels in the electricity generation process — will be part of a sizable portfolio of utility-scale renewable energy schemes envisaged for development in the Sultanate in the coming years. According to a key official of Oman Power and Water …
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Dubai Electricity and Water Authority announces completion of 128 pillars of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Concentrated Solar Power Park’s solar tower. The fourth phase of the park is the largest single-site investment project in concentrated solar power (CSP) in the world based on the independent power producer (IPP) model. Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, …
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A pilot project in the Gobi Desert that generates energy out concentrated solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight onto a small area, is the first of its kind of China and breaks a number of records in Asia, in terms of installed capacity, tower height, light concentration, …
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The 5 countries have signed today in Brussels a joint declaration that lays out their plan to facilitate cross-border trade of renewable electricity from producers to corporate consumers. At COP 22, France, Germany, Morocco, Portugal and Spain signed the SET (Sustainable Electricity Trade) Roadmap: a declaration that would eventually lead to renewable electricity exchanges between …
We say goodbye to a very important year for the Concentrated Solar Power sector that will constitute that point of support for the lever that drives the accelerated deployment of this technology worldwide (also in Spain!). This year, large commercial solar thermal projects have priced the combined cycle plants in Dubai, Australia and Chile, with …
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Particularly in regions lacking water, innovative water saving solutions for cooling and mirror cleaning are needed to significantly reduce the water consumption of solar thermal power plants.In the MinWaterCSP project, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE worked together with its partners on several approaches to reduce the water consumption in CSP plants. Minimizing …
Last month, Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power and the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) agreed to add 250 MW of PV capacity to the 700 MW Noor Energy 1 CSP project, previously known as DEWA CSP. Developed by ACWA Power, the giant $4.4 billion project sets new records on scale and cost efficiency. The project …
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ACWA Power’s Noor Energy 1 CSP-PV project in Dubai combines optimized 15-hour CSP storage with demand-focused tariffs and supply chain efficiency to hit the record-low price of $73/MWh, project partners told the CSP Madrid 2018 conference. Last month, Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power and the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) agreed to add 250 MW …
ContourGlobal sells 49% stake in 250 MW Spanish CSP capacity ContourGlobal has agreed to sell 49% of 250 MW of Spanish CSP assets to a fund advised by Credit Suisse Energy Infrastructure Partners (CSEIP), ContourGlobal announced December 6. ContourGlobal purchased the five 50 MW assets from Spain’s Acciona earlier this year. The plants are situated …