Category: CSP News Briefs

The 2010 SolarPACES Lifetime Award Winner Professor Valeriano Ruiz passed away earlier this week. From SolarPACES we would like to express our sympathy and condolences to his family and friends. Professor Valeriano Ruiz was among the earliest pioneers of solar thermal technology in Spain beginning in the 1970s, including pioneering the teaching of solar concentrating technologies as Professor on Thermodynamics …

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MIT proposal for Long Duration Thermal Energy Storage in 2,400°C Molten Silicon is among many long-duration grid-scale energy storage ideas being researched due to the low cost of thermal energy storage – about 1/10th that of batteries Source: Energy Storage News A US$75 million national research and development (R&D) facility for energy storage is expected …

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Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility launches R&D Voucher Program to further Concentrating Solar Power technologies January 29, 2021 9:21 pmPublished by Kelly Sullivan Sandia National Laboratories is currently seeking applications from industry, academia, research laboratories, government agencies, and individuals to further technologies related to Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) at the National Solar Thermal Test Facility …

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Press Release: schlaich bergermann partner (sbp)  The German solar engineering consultancy schlaich bergermann partner (sbp) supplied the EuroTrough solar collector for the 100MW Urat CSP project in Inner Mongolia, the largest commercial parabolic trough project in China. The Urat project was developed and realized as part of the first round of the Chinese renewable energy demonstration …

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Inauguration for Azelio’s first grid-scale project, after installation was completed in Morocco a few months ago. IMAGE@ Azelio Swedish startup Azelio will see its long-duration Thermal Energy Storage (TES) technology used at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Complex (MBR) in Dubai, UAE. Recycled aluminium alloy is used as a phase change material to …

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IMAGE@ Saudi-based ACWA Power’s 580MW solar thermal power station at Ouarzazate in Morocco includes both tower (foreground) and trough Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Reuters: Saudi fund raises ownership stake in ACWA Power to 50% -statement CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) – The Public Investment Fund (PIF), Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, said on Thursday it has increased its …

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CSP plants like ACWA Power’s Bokpoort use a thermal power block like a coal or gas plant, but the advantage is that it uses renewable energy – sunlight as the “fuel” so it is a thermal form of solar energy that can be stored for very long periods cost-effectively in gigantic tanks of molten salt …

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IMAGE@Abengoa How the thermal energy storage tanks for Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) can also store photovoltaic (PV) solar or wind Webinar: Retrofitting CSP projects to store and integrate variable renewable energy (VRE) in the grid 5 November at 12:00 CET (Check your local time) Spain’s Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan (PINEC) targets 74% of power …

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Wednesday October 28th at 12:00 CET CSP is a key player in the renewable energy market, overcoming some of the issues PV plants leave in the dispatch of solar energy. Tower projects with molten salt storage have taken key attention of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) projects, helping to provide dispatchability and flexibility to grid operators.< CSP …

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