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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 …
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Vast Solar’s modular Concentrated Solar Power tower plant with sodium transfer fluid will be competitive with coal and gas plants at scale and the Australian developer could build its first commercial plant by 2022, Craig Wood, CEO of Vast Solar, told New Energy Update. Australia’s Vast Solar is making the leap from a 1.1 MW …
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Azelio signs a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Pakistani company JD Aviation for reliable and sustainable electricity supply in Pakistan. The MOU is a first step in introducing the technology to the market in Pakistan. A market characterized by an unreliable electricity grid and good solar conditions, where long-term energy storage with cost-effective electricity …
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Once the effects of the calendar and the temperatures have been corrected, the peninsular demand of the month has been 4.5% lower than the same month of the previous year. 43.5% of the peninsular generation was renewable energy (wind energy 24.2%, solar thermal 2.4% and photovoltaic 3.9%) and 70.9% did not emit CO2. Generation structure …
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Saudi Arabia is embracing a new, more efficient way to harness solar power for electricity, inspired by its role as the main developer in one of the world’s largest renewable energy projects, the Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum Solar Park in Dubai. Concentrated solar power (CSP), which makes up a large part of the project, has …
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Vast Solar recently announced plans to build a 50 MW CSP-PV plant in New South Wales, Australia, which includes 30 MW of CSP capacity and 10 hours of molten salt energy storage capacity. The A$240 million Reference Plant project represents the first large-scale deployment of Vast Solar’s innovative CSP plant design, which features multiple small …
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Record-breaking Dubai CSP project completes financing Dubai Electricity Water Authority (DEWA), Saudi Arabia’s ACWA Power and China’s Silk Road Fund have reached financial closure on the 950 MW Noor Energy 1 CSP-PV project in Dubai, the partners announced March 24. The $4.4 billion Noor Energy 1 project is the world’s largest single CSP project and …
American firm to work with China’s Shanghai Electric on hybrid Concentrated Solar Power and solar PV project that will power 270,000 Dubai homes. The subcontracting has been awarded for 700MW concentrated solar power and a 250MW photovoltaic hybrid project. Dow, along with Chinese power generation and electrical equipment manufacturing company Shanghai Electric, will provide on-ground …
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The concrete base of the tower that is part of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, MBR, Solar Park, the largest single-site concentrated solar power, CSP, project in the world, has been completed. Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Managing Director and CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, DEWA, inspected the construction work of the fourth …
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