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In a bid to accelerate deployment, the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) published June 12 the world’s first best practices report for CSP plants. NREL researchers analyzed data and feedback from 80% of CSP plants operating worldwide, covering parabolic trough and less mature CSP tower and storage technologies. The report sets out a number …
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Global CSP report calls on better design handovers The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) published June 12 the world’s first global best practice report for CSP plants. The report sets out recommendations to improve the performance and reliability of CSP tower and trough plants, using feedback from 80% of global CSP capacity. Many of …
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Goodbye African oil and gas. Hello African wind and sunshine. Europe currently gets a lot of its energy from across the Mediterranean. That might not change in a climate-neutral world. Most of the fossil fuels extracted from under the sands of the Sahara are burned in the European Union. Pipelines carry gas to Europe from …
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IMAGE@DLR Product composition from redox processes in solar SMR and DMR in comparison with conventional methane reforming Solar fuels like hydrogen have the potential to be next generation energy carriers for a carbon-constrained world. Green hydrogen and other solar fuels could replace fossil fuels used for most transport; replacing heavy fuel oil used by container …
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Bill Gates calls it the 75% Problem. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from power plants only account for 25% of total, and electrical generation is one source of GHG emissions for which cheap renewable sources are well-suited. If we don’t radically reduce the remaining 75% of emissions, we could carpet Arizona in wall-to-wall photovoltaic (PV) panels …
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Morocco is playing an important role in Africa’s energy transition with the Noor Ouarzazate solar complex, according to a June 18 report by African Development Bank (AfDB) Group. The complex, southeast of Marrakech, is the largest concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in the world and its development benefited from $485 million in AfDB funding. The …
After successfully completing its registration in the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) program, the Cerro Dominador solar thermal power plant will be able to market carbon credits at the end of 2020, the estimated date of its launch, to continue contributing to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGs) established by the United Nations. …
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At the end of February, Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi outlined the company’s long-term strategy for the next three decades, which set out how the business will become more sustainable and increase its focus on low carbon energy. The plan, which has a target to cut the group’s absolute lifecycle emissions by 80% over the next …
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IMAGE@Cubico A 50 MW trough CSP project in Spain purchased by Cubico Abengoa plans to “bolt-on” novel low-cost storage to some of the first Spanish trough CSP plants, originally built with no storage Source: New Energy Update Spain’s Abengoa is looking to use low-cost PV power to support new molten salt thermal energy storage systems …
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IMAGE@DLR Product composition from redox processes in solar SMR and DMR in comparison with conventional methane reforming Solar fuels like hydrogen have the potential to be next generation energy carriers for a carbon-constrained world. Green hydrogen and other solar fuels could replace fossil fuels used for most transport; replacing heavy fuel oil used by container …
Continue reading “Which is the Most Efficient Way to Make Solar Fuels from Methane? ”