Vast secures $40 million to build its solar fuel plant at Port Augusta to supply green methanol for shipping

Cargo shipping will be very different in 2050. Increasingly, the shipping industry is looking at green fuels to decarbonize, like solar methanol (a solar fuel produced with solar thermochemistry) News Source: RenewEconomy The developers of a solar thermal powered methanol production facility that will supply green fuel for shipping and aviation have bedded down $A40 …

China Solar Thermal Alliance has published the Blue Book of China’s Concentrating Solar Power Industry in 2023

The 2023 edition of China’s very detailed Blue Book updates the current status of China’s CSP development, with the enabling legislation listed by month and by province, and provides all the details of the operation of the eight CSP projects completed by the end of 2023. This includes the power prices and investment costs of …

Japan to pay 15 years cost difference to birth green hydrogen technologies

Methane Pyrolysis in a Liquid Metal Bubble Column Reactor [CfD or Contracts-for-Difference subsidies pay the difference between an entrenched energy technology and a newly developing one to bring down those costs till it has scaled-up. CfD policies in the UK for its first decade of offshore wind jumpstarted widespread deployment and resulting cost reductions.] Source: …

SolarPACES 2022 Conference Proceedings published Open Access

SolarPACES 2022: Proceedings are being published Dear participants of the SolarPACES 2022 conference, We are delighted to announce the release of the SolarPACES 2022 conference proceedings on the TIB platform. Please be aware that the papers are being published sequentially. If you do not see your paper yet, we encourage you to regularly check the …

Cosin begins heliostat assembly for 2 of 3 100MW Xinjiang tower CSP projects

Cosin solar heliostats Press Release: Cosin Solar On January 24, the first set of heliostats for the 100MW CT CSP project of the POWERCHINA Turpan Tuokexun CSP + PV Hybrid Project, being constructed by Cosin Solar, was successfully assembled. The project, located in Tuokexun County, Turpan City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is invested by POWERCHINA …

Nordic Green Bank lends Kyoto Group EUR 4 million for Heatcube thermal storage

Heatcube gets a EUR 4 million investment to scale up its molten salt-based thermal energy storage from Nefco Press Release:Nefco Nefco – the Nordic Green Bank – has signed a loan agreement with Kyoto Group AS, a Norwegian company that has developed a heat storage technology based on molten salt. The EUR 4 million investment …

DOE Wants your Input on Receivers and Reactors for Concentrating Solar-Thermal Technologies

Solar Energy Technologies Office The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) issued a request for information (RFI) to better understand technology development needs and commercialization opportunities for receivers and reactors used in concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) plants for electricity generation and concentrating solar-thermal (CST) plants for solar industrial process heat (IPH) …

Glasspoint and Saudi’s Ma’aden unveil 9 tons/hr solar steam demo plan

Concentrated Solar Steam – IMAGE ©Glasspoint Source: Email from Glasspoint Ma’aden and GlassPoint Unveil Plans to Build Solar Thermal Technology Showcase First phase of project development for world’s largest industrial solar thermal project  NEW YORK/RIYADH, January 11, 2023 — Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Ma’aden), the largest multi-commodity mining and metals company firm in the Middle East, …

Cosin Solar completes heliostats on former Three Gorges CSP project

The 100 MW Tower CSP project, Jinta ZhongGuang was originally planned by the largest renewable energy firm in the world, Three Gorges Renewables, that built the 22 GW Three Gorges Dam. Cosin Solar bought the project from them after they failed to meet a milestone, and is now constructing it. Source: Cosin Solar On December …