SolarReserve to miss fin close deadline for 150-MW Australia Concentrated Solar Power project

SolarReserve has failed to secure in time funds for its 150-MW Aurora concentrated solar power (CSP) plant project in South Australia so it plans to sell it to a third party. The announcement was made by the South Australian government on Friday as a confirmation that the project will not go ahead under SolarReserve’s control. …

Israel Builds World‘s Largest Concentrated Solar Power Tower

The Ashalim concentrated solar power and thermal electric power plant in Israel’s Negev Desert is up and running. The state-of-the-art facility is equipped with more than 50,000 computer-controlled heliostats or mirrors, which can track the sun in two dimensions and reflect the sunlight onto a boiler placed on top of a tower measuring 240 m-high …