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It is common wisdom in the climate and clean energy world that the electric grid will need new storage resources to cover the “last mile” to get to 100% carbon-free electricity. These must be flexible, reliable, dispatchable and durable over the long term. Yet, despite more and more 100% carbon-free mandates, little is happening in …
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IMAGE@Abengoa Solar thermal energy storage tanks at the 280 MW Solana CSP+TES project in Arizona (Two storage tanks would fit in a football field) CSP+TES match a 100% clean grid “best fit” needs – flexibility, reliability, dispatchability, durability – but utilities don’t know how to procure them It is common wisdom in the climate and …
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By 2023, European researchers aim to produce a blended fluid for supercritical carbon dioxide power cycles that would reduce plant capex and suit dry hotspots. A year into their research, European scientists are on schedule to develop a new blended fluid system that could increase the efficiency of supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) CSP plant cycles. …
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A year into their research, European scientists are on schedule to develop a new blended fluid system that could increase the efficiency of supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) CSP plant cycles. The 5 million-euro ($5.5 million) SCARABEUS project will see researchers add small quantities of selected elements to pure CO2 to increase the efficiency of CSP …
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Dubai CSP partners restart activity after coronavirus stoppage Aalborg CSP’s Chinese partners have restarted production of heat exchangers for the 950 MW Noor Energy 1 CSP-PV project in Dubai, the Danish company announced March 25. The $4.4 billion Noor Energy 1 project will be the world’s largest CSP plant and includes a 100 MW CSP …
President of the European solar thermal association Estela until last year and of the Spanish Protermosolar since 2016, after serving eight years as the general secretary of this association, which brings together a hundred companies, Luis Crespo has always been linked to renewables and technology . It has done so through an endless number of …
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A Swiss startup is working on commercializing two routes to solar jet fuel with the help of Italy’s Eni, the 10th-largest oil company in the world. Synhelion plans to market aviation fuel in two stages; first, by 2022 to sell a solar jet fuel based on solar reforming of methane, with 50% lower carbon emissions. …
IMAGE@Synhelion – The solar field of mirrors and tower for solar jet fuel production A Swiss startup is working on commercializing two routes to solar jet fuel with the help of Italy’s Eni, the 10th-largest oil company in the world. Synhelion plans to market aviation fuel in two stages; first, by 2022 to sell a …
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Concentrated solar power can deliver greater grid stability than photovoltaics, but needs better recognition of its value to be competitive. Concentrated solar power’s failure to gain momentum in U.S. markets is a signal that traditional resource valuations may be slowing the energy transition, a February CSP conference made clear. CSP, which converts the sun’s heat …
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This is the Seongnam project, by the company Andes Green Company S.A., which includes the construction of a photovoltaic plant and a solar power concentration plant, which will operate as a solar thermal storage source to provide energy beyond daylight hours. This Monday the Environmental Impact Statement (DIA) of the Seongnam project, presented by the …
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