Three Gorges’ new Chinese CSP project trials a double solar field

One of the new CSP projects being built by Three Gorges Renewables is a novel dual-tower design at Guazhou, in Gansu Province: Construction images below Three Gorges Renewables (of Three Gorges Dam hydropower fame) is building a novel configuration for one of the three new CSP projects it is building in China, this one at …

Published at Energy – Concentrating efficiency loss of heliostat with multiple sub-mirrors under wind loads

Heliostats in a Tower CSP project IMAGE@GrupoCobra Abstract: As an important design load for heliostat, wind load crucially affects the safety and concentrating performance. Herein, an evaluation method is proposed to study the impacts of wind loads on concentrating efficiency loss of the heliostat with multiple sub-mirrors. In particular, the computation method and evaluation index …

Rediscovering Concentrated Solar Power: story from China

A guest post by Alina Gilmanova, who provides a unique perspective from her work inside China Recently some media, such as Energyskeptic, falsely accused CSP technology of being unreliable, full of glitches and having a low energy return. Their opinion refers to certain early development faults of the technology, mainly based on the US experience, …

Rediscovering Concentrated Solar Power: story from China

Recently some media, such as Energyskeptic, falsely accused CSP technology of being unreliable, full of glitches and having a low energy return. Their opinion refers to certain early development faults of the technology, mainly based on the US experience, where new CSP stations have not been built since 2015. Indeed, all power production technologies have …

POWERCHINA New Energy Toksun 100 MW tower concentrated solar power project steam turbine generator set, steam generation system started procurement

POWERCHINA Zhongnan Survey and Design Institute Co., Ltd issued a procurement competition announcement on steam turbine generator set and auxiliary equipment, steam generation system and auxiliary heating equipment of POWERCHINA New Energy Turpan Toksun County Wusstone solar thermal + photovoltaic integration project. Project Overview: The project is located 6 km south of Provincial Highway S301 …

Bidding for cost consulting service of Yumen 100 MW concentrated solar power energy storage project

On May 18, China Atomic Energy Industry Co., Ltd was entrusted by Yumen Xinao New Energy Co., Ltd to invite qualified bidders for online electronic bidding on the cost consulting service of its «Solar Thermal Power Energy Storage + Photovoltaic + Wind Power» demonstration project of 100MW solar thermal energy storage in Yumen. Bidding service …

Xizang Zabuye integrated energy supply project molten salt stop valve bidding

On May 16, Shanghai Baohua International Tendering Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as the tendering agency), entrusted by Ouye Industrial Products Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as the Buyer), conducted public bidding for the following goods required by molten salt cut-off valve for its source network charge storage integrated energy supply project of Tibet Zabye, …

Interview Jin Jianxiang, president of Cosin Solar Technology Co., Ltd

Cosin Solar Technology Co., Ltd. is one of the pioneer enterprises in China to engage in the promotion of research and industrialization of CSP technology. Specializing in the application of CSP, CSP+ hybrid solution and molten salt thermal energy storage technology, we are able to provide our customers with advanced, mature, and cost-competitive CSP and …

Tibet Zabuye integrated energy supply project high and low pressure heater bid

On May 10, Shanghai Baohua International Bidding Co., Ltd was entrusted by China Shipbuilding New Power Co., Ltd to bid for high pressure heater and low pressure heater in its Tibet Zabuye source grid load storage integrated energy supply project. Name of bidding goods: high pressure heater/ low pressure heater Technical specifications: 1. High pressure …