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SolarReserve Receives $2.0 Million Award from U.S. Department of Energy to Advance American Innovation in Concentrated Solar Power Technology

SolarReserve, a leading worldwide developer of large-scale solar power projects and advanced solar thermal technology, announced it was selected to receive a $2.0 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to advance concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) research and development. With energy storage technology that can store the heat generated …

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Climate Policy that Actually Works: How Morocco is Meeting its Clean Energy Goals

Morocco’s secret: MASEN (the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy) is actually a renewable energy “one stop shop” – from climate policy to completed projects IMAGE @MASEN An interview reveals Morocco’s secret: MASEN (the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy) is actually a renewable energy “one stop shop” – starting with climate policy, through needs assessment, planning, …

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ARPA-E Awardees Aim to Store Energy for up to 4 Days

Source: ARPA-E Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar announced the DAYS awardees today at the Innovation XLab Energy Storage Summit at SLAC National Laboratory IMAGE@ARPA-e The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the selection of 10 projects as part of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, DAYS; Duration Addition to electricitY Storage. Awardees …

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SolarReserve’s Aurora Solar Project Signs MOU for 13,000 Aussie Heliostats

SolarReserve’s heliostats for Australia’s Port Augusta solar thermal energy project are to be made in South Australia by Heliostat SA         IMAGE@NREL US solar developer SolarReserve has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Australian firm Heliostat SA, to partner in manufacturing and assembling heliostats and heliostat components for the 150 MW Aurora …

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Morocco’s first CSP tower plant enters final test stage; Abengoa boosts EBITDA but revenues fall

Morocco Noor III tower plant nears completion after synchronizing to grid Spain’s Sener has completed the first synchronisation to grid of ACWA Power’s 150 MW Noor Ouarzazate III (Noor III) central tower plant in Morocco and will soon start final tests before commissioning, Sener announced September 26. The Noor III plant is equipped with 7.5 …

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CSP experts warn capex gains needed to ensure desalination future

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced it would provide $21 million to 14 new solar thermal desalination projects which aim to reduce costs and open up the technology to new markets. The research projects cover a range of desalination technologies and are expected to take up to three years to complete. Elsewhere, researchers …

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SolarReserve to make Aurora heliostats in Australia; Miners poised to hunt renewables contracts: Fitch

SolarReserve signs Australian heliostat supply deal for Aurora project U.S. CSP developer SolarReserve has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Australian firm Heliostat SA for the supply and assembly of heliostats for its 150 MW Aurora Solar Energy Project near Port Augusta, South Australia. The AU$650-million Aurora project will use SolarReserve’s CSP tower technology and …

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A simple method for the inhibition of the corrosion of carbon steel by molten nitrate salt for thermal storage in concentrated solar power applications

Corrosion is an important issue in high-temperature applications such as Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technology, playing a crucial role in the long-term use of storage tanks, heat exchanger and piping materials which account for a considerable component of the investment costs. While there are many studies regarding the corrosion rates of container materials under the …

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