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Do you want to become a mentor? Women+ in Concentrated Solar is starting a mentorship program for women and other underrepresented genders in the concentrated solar sector, to help our mentees grow as professionals. In a first step, we are looking for mentors (all gender identities welcome). Mentors will be expected to meet with their mentee(s) once a month for …
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Solar hydrogen testing has begun at the CSIRO test site in Australia. The concentrated solar falling particle receiver seen here reaches the high temperatures used for solar thermochemistry. SolarPACES Conference 2023 will include a site tour here. IMAGE@Wil Gardner, CSIRO Tests are underway on a cutting edge renewable hydrogen technology that is being backed by …
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All of Egypt has a much higher solar resource for concentrated solar power than most regions. Its DNI is at least 2000 kWh/m2 even along the northern coast, making this ideal for 100% solar desalination with CSP. According to Fady Elsayed Senior Project Development Manager, Southern Africa, at Infinity Power, the Egyptian Government has launched …
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Cosin wins 200 MW CSP bid for solar field of heliostats and molten salt thermal storage system Press Release: Cosin wins 200 MW bid for solar field and MSR system On September 7, we received the “Notification of Award” from CGN China Nuclear Power Engineering Co., Ltd., confirming that Cosin Solar has won the contract …
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Gonghe 50 MW tower CSP by Power China in Qinghai Province IMAGE@China SolarThermal Alliance 803,000 kwh! The single-day power generation of Qinghai Gonghe CSP Power Station hit a new high! On July 21, the optimized operation mode of Qinghai Gonghe Solar Thermal Power Station generated a single day of 803,000 kWh of power generation, and …
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A growing need to store excess renewable energy is driving Australia to look at a range of storage plants and technologies. The region requires a lot of reliable and affordable energy storage, from batteries and other sources, not just because it must push hard to hit its climate goals but also because it has a …
NOOR III central tower Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project in Morocco, part of the 510 MW NOOR I,II and III CSP plant combining Tower and Trough CSP Morocco is about to award a new contract for the construction of a hybrid solar power plant in Midelt, a city located in the Atlas Mountains. The project, …
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IMAGE@Energy Connects Press Release: Aug 3 2023 Synhelion and Cemex announced today a significant milestone in their joint effort to develop fully solar-driven cement production: the scaling of their technology to industrially-viable levels. This includes the continuous production of clinker, the most energy-intensive part of cement manufacturing, using only solar heat. At the beginning of …
The Gonghe 50 MW CSP project – Cosin Solar (as then Supcon) was the solar field supplier. Cosin Solar is currently in construction on the tower and solar field for the 100 MW Jinta Zhongguang CSP project, one of the thirty CSP projects now in development and one of three Chinese CSP projects in construction …
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The government of Spain is launching €280 million (US$310 million) in grants for standalone energy storage projects, thermal energy storage and reversible pumped hydro to go online in 2026. The Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO) opened a public consultation into the grant scheme last month seeking comments on the proposal …
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