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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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, …
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IMAGE © ETH – How cement plants can remove CO2 ftom the atmosphere Source: ETH The production of cement ranks as one of the world’s largest industrial sources of CO₂. A new study now shows how cement production could in future be used to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere – based on a technology utilising …
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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 …
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Deputy GM and Chief Engineer Dai Zengli of SEPCOIII welcomed CSTA to the launch. Qingdao, China — July 2, 2026 — SEPCOIII has commissioned a new flexible assembly line for high-precision wind-resistant heliostats at its Hongfeng Equipment subsidiary, adding standardized, large-scale heliostat manufacturing capacity. According to SEPCOIII’s technical report on the line, the core advances …
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The 100 MW Fresnel in Gansu by China General Nuclear is the only other Fresnel CSP at this scale worldwide [Ed: This plant incorporates multiple innovations, not only that outside China, Fresnel projects have never been built at this scale, and that even within China, this is only the second ever built at 100MW following …
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CGN’s 100 MW Tower CSP at Jixi base [Ed: This 100 MW CSP Tower project at Jixi, Baicheng is one of two 100 MW Tower CSP plants to be connected to one of China’s Ultra High Voltage (UHV) DC lines, the Lugu line, for extremely long-distance transmission of renewable energy. The 1.4GW New Energy park at …
The 350MW solar project at Delingha solar park in Qinghai by CGN will combine 3 Towers with Trough CSP [Ed: Till now, Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) using parabolic Trough technology has been limited in efficiency by the temperature limit of the heat transfer oil to around 400°C. Tower CSP with molten salts can achieve 565°C …