Dedicated to Continuous Innovation
Are you looking at solar thermal power (Concentrated Solar Power) industry? How about Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region? Well known of the MENA super CSP projects like…? 100MW Shams 1 Parabolic Trough in Abu Dhabi 510MW NOORo CSP complex in Morocco 700MW NOOR Energy 1 CSP complex in Dubai 50MW Shagaya CSP plant …
MMYPEM will perform maintenance works in the 50 MW Concentrated Solar Power Shagaya plant, a project where the company was the winning tender for the assembly of the solar field, BOP equipment and turbine. Shagaya 50 MW concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in under the Phase One of 2GW Kuwait Shagaya Renewable Park. As Mr. …
Continue reading “MMYPEM participates in Shagaya 50 MW Concentrated Solar Power in Kuwait”
Under the Arabian sun, a monumental construction effort is making headway. Located deep within Dubai’s desert interior, the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park – named after the emirate’s ruler and the UAE’s vice president and prime minister – continues to grow and has just passed another milestone. In its eighth year of development, …
Continue reading “A $13.6bn record concentrated solar power park rises from Dubai desert”
Germany has committed to completely decarbonize its national energy system. Going 100% renewables, however, comes with electricity dispatchability challenges. One of the possible solutions would be to replace the coal in coal power plants with renewable energy as the ‘fuel’ for the turbines, using thermal storage to offset the intermittency of renewables and thereby keep …
Dubai 950MW Concentrated Solar Power -PV project NOOR Energy 1, the super solar power complex is the 4th phase of Dubai Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. September 2017 witnessed the winning of consortium of ACWA Power and Shang Electric to execute the project. Up to date, the project have been progressed with high …
Highlights•Botswana has more than 1800 kWhy−1 of direct normal irradiance (DNI) which exceeds the threshold for economic viability of concentrating solar power (CSP) technology. Botswana has approximately 220,016 km2 of available land to support CSP plants, which represents approximately 38% of the total land area.•The largest proportion of available land relative to the district size is the …
Continue reading “Assessment of the concentrated solar power potential in Botswana”
Whenever I visit the Sahara I am struck by how sunny and hot it is and how clear the sky can be. Aside from a few oases, there is little vegetation, and most of the world’s largest desert is covered with rocks, sand and sand dunes. The Saharan sun is powerful enough to provide Earth …
Continue reading “Should we turn the Sahara Desert into a huge solar farm?”
SENER’s proven experience in concentrated solar power places the company in an unbeatable position in hybridization projects, which open a new landscape on the world energy map. SENER has been involved in 29 solar thermal power plants built all around the world, using SENER’s own technology, and most of them featuring thermal storage. The last …
Continue reading “Concentrated Solar Power hybridization projects on the new world energy landscape”
China to Finance and Shanghai Electric to Build ACWA Power’s DEWA CSP IMAGE@Utilities Middle East EPC Contract with Shanghai Electric to Develop 700 MW DEWA CSP Project Signed in China ACWA Power Apr 15, 2018 DEWA and ACWA Power, in collaboration with Shanghai Electric, will undertake the 700 MW CSP portion of the 950 MW …
Australia still has a promising solar thermal technology future despite a major Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project in South Australia failing because of financing issues. Energy expert Simon Currie says the emerging CSP industry can overcome the collapse of SolarReserve’s $650 million Aurora project near Port Augusta. Solar thermal technology is perfect for Australian conditions, …