Dedicated to Continuous Innovation
Luis Crespo participates in CSP Madrid 2019 and will open the congress together with the IDAE general director. Luis Crespo, president of Protermosolar, will expose the unique characteristics of storage and flexibility of solar thermal technology, making it essential for electric decarbonization. The president of Protermosolar, Luis Crespo, together with Joan Groizard, General Director of …
Solar thermal can be split into two different types; solar thermal energy systems (heating/hot water) and concentrated solar power plants (electricity production). This article looks at what concentrated solar power (CSP) actually is. If you would like information on solar thermal heating instead, you can find this here. What is Concentrated Solar Power? Concentrated solar …
Continue reading “What Are Concentrated Solar Power Plants?”
Ellen B. Stechel, a professor of practice in the School of Molecular Sciences and co director of ASU LightWorks®, received $3.3 million for a project to develop long term storage for advanced concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) plants. Year round, day and night, on demand power generation is the next solar frontier and essential to deep …
Continue reading “Storage for advanced concentrated solar power (CSP) plants”
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 …
Continue reading “Fire halts construction at Chile’s first Concentrated Solar Power tower”
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 …
Continue reading “Vast Solar in talks with Australian mining groups for first CSP plant”
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 …
Despite its big potential, concentrated solar power remains one of the most expensive mainstream options for generating renewable power. Rather than trying to catch up through technological breakthroughs, however, the CSP industry should turn to lower-hanging fruit. That’s the view of Luis Crespo, president of Protermosolar, Spain’s solar thermal electricity association. Spain was a pioneer …
Continue reading “Why Smaller Might Be Better for Concentrated Solar Power”