WRBC confirms DEWA CSP record – running round the clock for 39 days in 2024

IMAGE@ACWA PowerView from DEWA 600 MW Trough CSP to 100 MW Tower Source: CSTA WRBC confirms Dubai set the World Record for Longest Continuous Operation of a CSP Plant: 39 Days According to the World Record Benchmark Committee (WRBC), based on public certification information, the Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (DEWA) has set a world …

Sichuan’s first CSP project gets environmental OK in Phase I of a 2GW solar park

Aba County, Sichuan Province, IMAGE © Creative Commons [Ed: Though Sichuan as a whole has a poor solar resource for CSP, Aba County itself has excellent DNI. It is located in the northwestern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with a thin and clean atmosphere, and a high number of cloud-free days.] Source: From CSTA Sichuan …

Receiver delivered for 350 MW PowerChina CSP project at Wutumeiren in Golmud

Source: CSTA In early October, the large tower solar thermal receiver manufactured by Bluestar (Beijing) Chemical Machinery Co., Ltd (abbreviated as BCMC) completed manufacturing and inspection at its Liaocheng, Shandong production base and was officially shipped to Qinghai for delivery to the Yichu Golmud 350MW tower solar thermal power project. The project is located at …

DEWA’s 950MW CSP+PV solar park powering Dubai gets refinanced

Source: Dubai Government Media Office His Excellency Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), announced the successful refinancing of the Noor Energy 1 project at USD 2.70 billion, well ahead of the target date, during a speech delivered at Al Sheraa Building, DEWA’s headquarters, in …

Enter the 4th Annual CSTA Photographic Competition

To all relevant entities and individuals: In order to continuously demonstrate the unique appeal of concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies, capture scenes of construction, operationandmaintenance work and daily life at CSP power stations, and advance cultural communication within the CSP industry, the China Solar Thermal Alliance (CSTA) has decided to host the 4th Concentrated Solar …

Synhelion advances scale-up with large-scale synthetic fuel project in Morocco

Source: Press Release Zurich, September 8, 2026: Synhelion has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Morocco with the aim to develop a large-scale commercial synthetic fuel plant in the country’s southern Tan-Tan province. The facility is planned to produce 100’000 tons of renewable fuel per year. Synhelion has already secured a land …

All sixteen 15-ton solar receiver panels hoisted up Ando Tushuo tower CSP in Tibet

Source: China Solar Thermal Alliance: The core heat absorption system installation has been successfully completed for the Tibet Development & Investment Anduo Tushuo 100 MW tower solar thermal project, constructed by POWERCHINA SEPCO1 in Tibet. (Map) All 16 solar receiver tube panels have been hoisted into position atop the tower. The hoisting operation presented extreme …

Saipem to begin engineering work to scale Synhelion’s synthetic fuels

Synhelion says they have hired the engineering firm Saipem to carry out preliminary engineering work for a commercial-scale synthetic fuel plant at an RWE industrial site in Hürth-Knapsack, Germany. The plant is expected to produce 30,000 tons annually of renewable synthetic fuels, mainly for aviation, along with synthetic diesel and gasoline for shipping and road …

Tibet’s Amdo Tushuo 100MW CSP hits first solar field commissioning milestone

Dongfang Boiler heliostats at Amdo County 100 MW CSP project Dongfang Boiler’s first milestone a success at world’s highest CSP tower project Dongfang Boiler has achieved “first light” at the 100MW Amdo Tushuo tower concentrated solar power plant in Tibet, the China Solar Thermal Alliance reported on Aug. 27. This involves reflecting sunlight from the …