Luis Crespo participates in the SolarPACES concentrated solar power conference

Luis Crespo, president of Protermosolar, will preside over the first plenary session of the XXV edition of SolarPACES, which will be held from October 1 to 4 in South Korea. The president of Protermosolar, Luis Crespo, will preside over the first plenary session of the SolarPACES 2019 congress, the most important international event in the …

Vast Solar closes capital raise to finance Concentrated Solar Power project

Australian concentrated solar power (CSP) company Vast Solar has finalised a capital hike to progress development of its 30-MW solar thermal power reference plant. Vast Solar did not disclose how much it raised through the capital increase but mentioned that it gained further support from existing investors. In February, it said it was looking to …

SUNCNIM and Banque des Territoires inaugurated the world’s first Fresnel type thermodynamic solar energy plant with energy storage in Llo, Occitania

SUNCNIM and Banque des Territoires, shareholders in the ELLO project company, inaugurated the Llo thermodynamic solar power plant with energy storage, in the presence of Martine Rolland, representative of Hermeline Malherbe, President of the Departmental Council of the Eastern Pyrenees, Eliane Jarycki, representative of Carole Delga, Former Minister and President of the Occitania Region, Jean …

SaltX Berlin pilot plant shows very promising results

The Swedish energy storage company SaltX Technology built and deployed a first-of-its-kind energy storage in 2019. The pilot plant, which is based on a nanocoated salt material, confirms a good material performance and a scalable energy storage concept. Furthermore, the large-scale tests showed a promising roundtrip efficiency. The overall goal of the project was to …

China Connects Luneng, its 5th CSP Project in Climate Push

Luneng at Haixi in Qinghai Province; China’s 4th tower CSP demonstration project is completed by 2020 deadline IMAGE @CSPFocus Luneng’s 50 Megawatt (MW) tower Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project with 12 hours of thermal energy storage (in molten salts) connected to the Chinese grid on September 20th. Beginning construction in June of 2017, it took …

CSH Could Decarbonize Industrial Heat Globally

Large-scale CSH suppliers like Aalborg or Glasspoint could sell heat to small businesses in industrial parks through HPAs IMAGE @Glasspoint Concentrating Solar Heat (CSH) could decarbonize industrial heat globally Citing a study by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), World Bank energy consultant Elena Cuadros said CSH holds the promise to replace fossil fuels supplying …

MENA Region Industries Could Heat for Less with Solar

Presentation IMAGE@Elena Cuadros Which Middle East and North Africa (MENA) nations could decarbonize industrial heat with CSH most cost-effectively? World Bank energy consultant Elena Cuadros has supplied very detailed calculations showing where CSH could be substituted at a lower cost than fossil fuels , by comparing CSH costs to specific fossil fuel costs currently used …

DEWA reviews construction of 4th phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park

Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), has inspected the construction of the 4th phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, which is the largest single-site Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project in the world. Based on the Independent Power Producer (IPP) model, the fourth phase …

Project a concentrated solar power plant in La Puna, Argentina

Jujeños technicians and the rionegrina state company Applied Investigations (Invap) made field records in the Puna region and defined technical aspects around the construction of a project of a solar thermal power plant in the department of Susques. The work was carried out among engineers of the state-owned Jujuy Energy and Mining Company of the …

Supcon Just Connected 50 MW of Tower CSP to China’s Grid at Record Speed

  Supcon 50MW Gonghe IMAGE@SUPCON Supcon has just completed its second CSP Tower project, the 50 MW Gonghe project at record speed – just under a year and a half. On September 19th, Supcon connected its Gonghe 50MW CSP Project to China’s grid. From contract in mid 2018, to completion yesterday, Gonghe was built in …