Lointek, Aalborg win contracts on giant Dubai CSP project; Spain aims to install 2.5 GW CSP by 2025

Lointek to deliver steam generation, storage systems to Dubai’s Noor Energy 1 Spain’s Lointek is to supply the integrated steam generation system and oil salt thermal storage system for ACWA Power’s 950 MW Noor Energy 1 CSP-PV plant in Dubai, the company said in a statement February 19. Under a turnkey contract, Lointek will engineer, …

Higher performance secure Aalborg CSP another order for industrial solar heating plant in Denmark

Aalborg CSP, Danish renewable energy specialist and a well-known player on the industrial and district heating market, landed a new order to deliver a 2.6 MWth solar-thermal plant in Denmark. With the system in Egedal, Aalborg CSP continues its series of new projects based on customized solutions with solar and storage supporting a competitive transition …

Vast Solar seeks funding for 50 MW Concentrated Solar Power, PV hybrid in Australia

Australian concentrated solar power (CSP) specialist Vast Solar plans to develop a hybrid project that comprises a 30 MW CSP facility with 10 hours of storage and a 20 MW PV plant, and to make this happen it needs to secure $75 million. The company said it was already working with ASX-listed financial services firm …

Key Concentrated Solar Power project developers & EPCs in China solar thermal power industry

With the rise of China concentrated solar power (CSP) industry, especially after the launch of 1st batch of 20 demonstration projects in the year of 2016, an increasing number of Chinese local companies have been entering such an emerging new energy market, trying to get some share of this “big cake”. As CSP Focus gets …

The Concentrated Solar Power will pass in Spain from 2,300 MW to 7,303 MW in 2030

The National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan foresees that wind energy will go from an installed power of 22,925 MW in 2015 to 50,528 MW in 2030, and solar photovoltaic from 4,854 MW to 36,882 MW, while concentrated solar power goes from 2,300 MW to 7,303 MW. The National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (Pniec), …

Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Vs Photovoltaic (PV)

Which solar energy technology will prevail? Concentrated Solar Power or Photovoltaic?  In review of the latest developments in renewable, solar energy technologies one can establish that the answer to this question is rather controversial. In search of recent developments in the US energy industry and global economic and financial markets one can find conflicting evidence …

Lointek wins a contract in Dubai concentrated solar power plant

LOINTEK reaffirms its global leadership position with a 70% market share in steam generation and thermal storage systems for thermosolar power. The DEWA IV concentrated solar power plant in Dubai generates renewable energy with a capacity of 950 MW, three times greater than any plant currently in operation, and it will achieve the lowest price …

Protermosolar confirms that in 2030 the contribution of renewables to electricity generation in Spain could be 84% at a cost of less than € 5c / kWh

Protermosolar incorporates the 2018 data to its report and corroborates the importance of concentrated solar power in electrical decarbonization.The balanced distribution between photovoltaic and concentrated solar power would allow to supply the demand also at night and reduce the amount of discharges, all at a lower cost than the current one. The study is based …

Concentrated solar power with steam turbines from Siemens

Siemens steam turbines are the most often used power generation product in solar thermal power plants. Siemens steam turbines are reliably operating in all common concentrated solar power (CSP) plant types. Concentrated solar thermal power is worldwide becoming a more and more important source for power generation. The reasons for this are obvious: The sun …

Aalborg CSP signs 600 MWe order with Shanghai Electric for no-leaks steam generation systems to Dubai Concentrated Solar Power project

The record-breaking Dubai 700MW CSP+250 MW PV Hybrid Project developed by ACWA POWER, with Shanghai Electric Group Corporation as EPC, will use the Steam Generation Systems based on header-and-coil technology from Aalborg CSP after signature of a 600 MWe order for delivery of 42 heat exchangers and pressure vessels. The header-and-coil technology from Aalborg CSP …