SolarReserve is to sell its 150 MW Aurora CSP project near Port Augusta in South Australia after failing to secure financing for the project, the government of South Australia said in a statement April 5. The AU$650-million ($465-million) Aurora project was based on SolarReserve’s CSP tower technology and include eight hours of molten salt storage. …
US researchers achieve world’s highest temperature sCO2 turbine
Engineers at General Electric and the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI) have designed, built and tested the world’s highest-temperature supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) turbine, boosting the prospect of greater CSP plant efficiency, SWRI said in a statement April 8. The new high-temperature supercritical carbon dioxide turbine could achieve 50% thermal efficiency in CSP plants. (Image credit: …
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Dubai Concentrated Solar Power technology inventions accelerate industry cost reductions
Supplier innovations at the 950 MW Noor Energy 1 Concentrated Solar Power project will increase construction and operations efficiency and propel the CSP industry closer to $50/MWh, industry experts told the Mena New Energy 2019 conference. Last month, the Dubai Electricity Water Authority (DEWA), Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power and China’s Silk Road Fund reached financial …
Dubai CSP technology inventions accelerate industry cost reductions
Last month, the Dubai Electricity Water Authority (DEWA), Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power and China’s Silk Road Fund reached financial closure on the $4.4 billion Noor Energy 1 CSP-PV project in Dubai. The 950 MW Noor Energy 1 project includes three 200 MW parabolic trough CSP systems, a 100 MW CSP tower plant, 250 MW of …
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