Category: CSP News Briefs

A major energy storage plant in China incorporates a 2,000MWht molten salt thermal energy storage system Source ESPlaza: Construction activity is ramping up at the steam supply station of CNNC HuiNeng’s 1.6GW clean energy support project in Jinta County, Gansu province, as engineering teams push ahead with schedule, quality, and coordination targets. On site, works …

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Philipp Furler, Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Synhelion, and Silvan Eberhard, Head of Logistics at Eberhard Unternehmungen, celebrate solar diesel offtake agreement for construction machinery. Press release: Zurich, February 3, 2026 Eberhard Bau AG, a leading Swiss construction company, has signed a long-term offtake agreement for solar diesel with cleantech company Synhelion. Starting in 2027, Eberhard …

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Source: China Solar thermal Alliance On November 28, 2025, the China Renewable Energy Society (CRES) announced the list of winners of 2025 CRES Science and Technology Awards, including 10 first prize winners, 12 second prize winners, 13 third prize winners, 1 Science and Technology Achievement Award winner, five Science and Technology Innovation Award winners, and …

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Source: China Solar Thermal Alliance: Blue Book 2025 In 2025, China connected 9 new CSP plants to the grid, with a total installed capacity of 900 MW. By the end of 2025, China had built 27 CSP plants/systems, with a cumulative installed capacity of 1738.2 MW (including the country’s first 200 kW supercritical carbon dioxide …

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DUBAI, January 26, 2026 — GlassPoint, the leader in solar industrial process heat, today announced it has closed a $20M funding round led by N.I.S. New Investment Solutions, a Liechtenstein-based asset management firm, with participation from returning investor MIG Capital. The investment will advance existing megaprojects with Searles Valley Minerals in California and Ma’aden in Saudi Arabia, …

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According to incomplete statistics from CSPPLAZA, a total of 12 important tenders across 11 CSP/molten salt thermal storage-related projects were completed in December 2025. December 2025 saw significant progress in both concentrated solar power (CSP) and molten salt thermal storage, with key milestones reached in multiple major projects: In the CSP sector, EPC contractors were …

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Three Gorges Renewables 100 MW Tower CSP in Golmud, Qinghai [Tower CSP predominates in China, and is typically 100 MW, so 15 GW would mean 150 CSP projects] BEIJING, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) — China unveiled a policy roadmap on Tuesday to accelerate solar thermal power development, targeting around 15 gigawatts (GW) of installed capacity by …

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Press Release Zurich, December 16, 2025 Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) and Swiss cleantech company Synhelion have signed a long-term offtake agreement for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). From 2027, SWISS will purchase at least 200 tons of solar jet fuel from Synhelion annually, pioneering the use of this innovative fuel in civil aviation. The agreement …

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Dr.-Ing. Wei Wu (born 1983) is the founder and managing director of Heatrix, a Bremen-based startup that she co-established with her co-founder, Dr.-Ing. Stefan Gasow-Lux. With a degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Stuttgart and a doctorate in energy technology from RWTH Aachen, she contributes extensive technical expertise. During her doctoral research at …

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