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 …

World’s first 100MW Fresnel in Xinjiang, China begins 14-day trial operation

World’s first 100 MW Fresnel CSP in China. In Fresnel the solar receiver collects and transfers concentrated heat from flat mirrors on the ground Source: CSTA On August 20, the 100MW linear Fresnel solar thermal project of the CTGR Xinjiang Hami Integrated Energy Demonstration Project, EPC contracted by CPECC Northwest for China Three Gorges Renewables, …

For South Africa’s nights, CSP+ thermal storage would be cheaper than PV+batteries

South Africa’s Redstone CSP project completed – SolarReserve PV project seen in the background was already completed IMAGE©Xinhua (Zhang Yudong) Source: The Conversation By Craig Mcgregor; Director of the Stellenbosch University Solar Thermal Energy Research Group  South Africa’s coal-fired power stations are retiring. The country must replace a huge amount of electricity over the next …

Synhelion marks two years of synthetic aviation fuel demo

DAWN Synhelion synthetic aviation fuel – IMAGE © Synhelion Two years of plant DAWN: proving synthetic fuel production at industrial scale Source: Synhelion – Published in 2026 In 2024, we switched on plant DAWN for the first time. Since starting production in late summer that year, we have gained invaluable operational experience, de-risked our technology, …

Qinghai home to world largest single-unit CSP facility

According to CGN, the plant’s mirror field covers a staggering total aperture area of 3.7 million square meters, comprising three 1.1-million-square-meter tower fields and one 400,000-square-meter trough field. Source: China Daily China’s 350-megawatt concentrated solar power demonstration project is set to deliver a replicable, large-scale model for the nation’s CSP commercialization, backed by world-leading thermal …