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A fire broke out Tuesday at the 110 MW Cerro Dominador CSP project, currently under construction in Chile’s Atacama desert, the developer said on Twitter. The fire was spotted at 20:00 local time Tuesday at the top of the 250-meter receiver tower, development company Cerro Dominador, a subsidiary of EIG Global Energy Partners, said. By …
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Modular Concentrated Solar Power developer Vast Solar sees Australia’s mining sector as the greatest deployment opportunity before wind and PV growth creates wholesale market openings, Craig Wood, CEO of Vast Solar, told New Energy Update. Concentrated Solar Power with storage can meet mining operators’ demand needs. Vast Solar’s quest to build Australia’s first large-scale CSP …
ACCIONA took part in the design and construction of the Noor I CSP plant (160 MW) that is part of this complex in the province of Ouarzazate, Morocco. The Noor Ouarzazate energy complex, which includes the Noor I CSP plant that was designed and constructed by ACCIONA together with its partners Sener and TSK, …
Vast Solar’s quest to build Australia’s first large-scale CSP plant could soon be boosted by new offtake contracts with the mining sector. The developer is currently in talks with several potential offtakers over a commercial CSP-PV facility and is working to confirm the site and offtake agreements within the next six months, Wood told New …
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Fire stops building work at Cerro Dominador in Chile A fire broke out Tuesday at the 110 MW Cerro Dominador CSP project, currently under construction in Chile’s Atacama desert, the developer said on Twitter. The fire was spotted at 20:00 local time Tuesday at the top of the 250-meter receiver tower, development company Cerro Dominador, …
IMAGE@NREL ARPA-E has challenged researchers to innovate a storage technology that can be deployed in almost any location and charge and discharge electricity, at a low fixed cost per cycle, for up to 4 days. The DAYS (Duration Addition to electricitY Storage) challenge is to supply an unmet market need – to provide grid-scale …