MIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel

Conventional systems for producing hydrogen depend on fossil fuels, but the new system uses only concentrated solar power. MIT engineers aim to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like system of reactors that is driven solely by the sun. In a study appearing today in Solar Energy Journal, the engineers lay out …

Shams Concentrated Solar Power: Ten years of renewable energy, reducing emissions

The Shams Concentrated Solar Power planr in the Al Dhafra Region will enter a new decade after a series of successes, underscoring the UAE’s leadership in renewable environmentally-friendly energy, and coinciding with the Year of Sustainability and the preparations to host COP28 in November 2023. Ten years after its establishment, the concentrated solar power station …

Fourth phase of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park is first CBI certified Renewable Energy Project financing in GCC

CBI is a reputable international non-profit organization solely working towards mobilizing and facilitating climate change solutions through the $100 trillion bond market and «green loan» issuances. The fourth phase of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (MBR) Solar Park – Noor Energy 1 – has become the first project in the GCC region to receive «Climate …

One-million LTI-free hours at Shams 1 concentrated solar power plant in Abu Dhabi

Shams Power Company, a special purpose vehicle 80% owned by Masdar and 20% owned by Total, has reached one million man-hours without lost-time injuries (LTI) from the operations of its concentrated solar power (CSP) project in the Al Dhafra region of Abu Dhabi. The Shams CSP plant began operations in 2013 and is touted as …

China To Dominate Concentrated Solar Power Revival in Long Term

Concentrated Solar Power is the technology which uses mirrors to concentrate the sun’s energy to drive traditional steam turbines or engines that create electricity. The thermal energy concentrated in a CSP plant can be stored and used to produce electricity when it is needed, day or night. Concentrated solar power (CSP), a renewable energy technology …

Abu Dhabi to test first-ever rotating solar concentrator

Abu Dhabi’s Khalifa University of Science and Technology and private company Wahaj Solar have signed an agreement to test and verify the world’s first medium-scale point solar concentrator at the Masdar Institute Solar Platform (MISP) test center, the partners announced January 20. The solar concentrator consists of a 10-meter diameter high-flux solar furnace which can …

Concentrated Solar Power project at Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park wins first place at 6th International Best Practice Competition in ‘Partnership Category’

DEWA’s victory was announced at the 24th Global Organisational Excellence Congress, which was organised by Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the first time in the Middle East. Abu Dhabi, UAE: Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA) won first place at the 6th International Best Practice Competition in the Partnership Category for its …