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EuroTrough for CSP in Tibet The EuroTrough technology, developed by sbp sonne, has been selected for China’s newest CSP power plant in Tibet. sbp sonne will provide the technology and engineering service for this challenging site at an elevation of 4,500 meters in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China. The ZhabuYe Parabolic Trough power plant …
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Summer school SFERA At the 4th SFERA-III Doctoral Colloquium and Summer School, around fifty young researchers from all over the world met in Cologne from 11 to 15 September 2023. Doctoral students from the Institute of Solar Research and the Institute of Future Fuels exchanged expertise with their European colleagues and made valuable contacts. On …
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GlassPoint to build a factory in Saudi Arabia to mass-produce its gigantic lightweight trough solar collectors for industrial steam. [One of the earliest recognitions of GlassPoint’s innovation in concentrated solar thermal was the SolarPACES Technology Innovation Award 2016 for its innovative trough CST enclosed inside glasshouses for generating steam directly for EOR. Now a Saudi …
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SolarPACES Lifetime Achievement Award 2023 Robert Pitz-Paal and Eduardo Zarza The SolarPACES network, under the auspices of the International Energy Agency (IEA), has presented this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award to a duo: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Robert Pitz-Paal from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Dr. Eduardo Zarza from the Spanish research centre CIEMAT. SolarPACES thus acknowledges …
IMAGE at Cosin Solar The President of Chile, Gabriel Boric, together with his entourage and a delegation of businessmen from the energy sector, will visit the Chinese CSP plant with the highest production in the world, according to H2 News. President Boric, accompanied by representatives of Cosin Solar, an international company that is part of …
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Smiles abound at SolarPACES 2023 where the engineers behind a record-setting solar energy coating received the Technology Innovation Award. From L to R: PhD candidate Yifan Guo, Dr Juan Felipe Torres, Dr Joe Coventry, Kaoru Tsuda, CEO of Nano Frontier Technology, and ANU PhD candidate Sahar Hosseini. FRIDAY 13 OCTOBER 2023 An international team of engineers …
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Concentrated solar increases heat market share Solar industrial heat is on a growth path. A worldwide survey of project developers shows an extremely positive trend for the next few years. 62 plants with 331 MW are being planned – half of them in Europe. The Solar Industrial Heat Outlook 2023-2026 presents the results of the …
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The long delayed Shagaya solar project is finally underway. Kuwait already has one 50 MW CSP project, which has been in operation since 2019. Now it has begun the bidding for an additional 200 MW of CSP. [See SolarPACES-NREL full technical details of Kuwait’s first CSP project 50 MW of Trough CSP] Kuwait is set …
IMAGE@MASEN The 200 MW of trough CSP now being commissioned in the 700 MW DEWA CSP project follows the 100 MW Tower CSP complex already online Dubai, UAE: Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has commissioned the second 200 megawatt (MW) unit of the parabolic trough complex in the 4th phase of the Mohammed bin …
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Cosin Solar now supplies 1 GW of China’s tower CSP Press Release: Cosin Solar Sealing One More Deal, Cosin Solar’s Total Tower CSP Projects Hit 1GW! Cosin Solar Technology Co., Ltd. (“Cosin Solar”) and State Power Investment Shandong Electric Power Engineering Consulting Institute Co., Ltd. (“SDEPCI”) signed the contract for Solar Field , MSR Systems …
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