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As a dispute over failures at the Crescent Dunes tower plant in Nevada rumbles through US law courts, new findings on global CSP performance could help boost investor confidence in the sector. The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has studied 90 CSP projects, including Crescent Dunes, and will publish its findings in the coming …
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Oil recovery group GlassPoint Solar liquidated California’s GlassPoint Solar has gone into liquidation due to sharp falls in oil and gas prices following the COVID-19 outbreak, Oman’s government, the largest stakeholder in GlassPoint, said in a statement. A concentrated solar heat (CSH) developer specializing in enhanced oil recovery (EOR), GlassPoint developed the giant 1 GW …
Homeowners and businesses in Cyprus showed growing interest in solar thermal technology over the last two years. Collector area additions on the island increased by 5 % in 2018 and by 24 % in 2019 after a small decline in 2017. The growth in collector capacity was the result of an overall good economy and …
As one of China first batch of 20 demonstration Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) projects, Shouhang Yumen 100 MW Molten Salt Tower CSP Project is currently well prepared to start construction. Early-stage documents have been approved, and the optimization work of receiver tower design is to be completed, the tower building is supposed to be started …
This is one of the latest milestones in the construction of the solar thermal project being carried out by Acciona and Abengoa in the Atacama desert (Chile) and owned by EIG Global Energy Partners. Weighing 2,300 tons, this highly complex piece will concentrate the solar radiation projected from the 10,600 heliostats surrounding the tower. It …
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) have developed a low cost Solar ‘Parabolic Trough Collector’ (PTC) system for concentrating solar energy with industrial applications in areas such as desalination, space heating and space cooling, among others. This indigenously designed and developed system was lightweight with high energy efficiency under Indian various climatic and …
The Coalition for Energy Efficient Comminution (CEEC), a global non-profit funded by mining companies, have partnered with the University of Adelaide’s Institute for Mineral and Energy Resources (IMER) to trial the use of solar thermal energy to enhance comminution. Comminution is the process by which solid materials are reduced to smaller average particle size by …
The new law will allow decisive progress towards the decarbonisation of the economy, facilitating an optimal combination of all renewable technologies, such as concentrated solar power, wind energy and PV. The Spanish Association for the Promotion of the Solar Thermal Industry (Protermosolar) expresses its satisfaction with the beginning of the processing of the Law on …
Northwest Electric Power Design Institute Co., Ltd (NWEPDI) signed contract with Shouhang to be the engineer for Shouhang Yumen 100 MW Molten Salt Tower Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Project. NWEPDI will be responsible for the survey and design work for the 100 MW Tower solar thermal project owned and developed by Shouhang High Tech. The …
GlassPoint Solar, a venture capital startup that focuses on the use of solar energy for steam generation in heavy oil production, has gone into liquidation after taking a hit by the COVID-19 crisis. The proceedings were announced by Oman’s State General Reserve Fund (SGRF), which is a shareholder in the company with a 31% stake. …
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