Tunisia is innovating in the field of desalination. Tunisian engineers have just inaugurated Desaltec-z1 at the Miladi organic oil mill in Zarzis, in the south-east of the country. The new plant desalts well water using the reverse osmosis process, powered by solar thermal energy. Work on the solar thermal water desalination plant in Zarzis is …
Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute says concentrated solar power could net Australians $10b by 2050
New research suggests Australians could pocket $10 billion in savings by 2050 if governments begin installing a niche form of solar power storage in the country’s major electricity networks. That figure — produced by Fichtner and ITP Renewables on behalf of the Australian Solar Thermal Research Institute — would amount to savings of about $40 …
Concentrated solar power increases industrial steam market share
A worldwide survey of project developers shows an extremely positive trend for the next few years. 62 plants with 331 MW are being planned – half of them in Europe. The Solar Industrial Heat Outlook 2023-2026 presents the results of the survey in a series of infographics. The Middle East and Southern Europe will be …
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The first Concentrated Solar Power plant in Brazil operates with KLINGER
A new chance for KLINGER Brazil to contribute to a green energy project recently came about in Rosana, São Paulo, where Eudora Energia just completed the nation’s first heliothermal power plant. Heliothermal energy, also known as concentrated solar power or CSP converts solar energy into heat through the use of parabolic mirrors and thermal fluid. …
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DEWA commissions second unit in the 4th phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park
Adding 200 MW of Concentrated Solar Power using parabolic basin complex technology. Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has commissioned the 200MW second unit of the parabolic basin complex in the fourth phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. This phase uses the Independent Power Producer (IPP) model with investments of up …
Heineken and Engie inaugurate the largest concentrated solar power plant for industrial use in Europe
Heineken Spain and Engie Spain have built the largest solar thermal plant for industrial use in Europe, a completely pioneering innovation in Spain that the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, wanted to see firsthand by attending the inauguration ceremony held this Saturday in Seville. and in which Etienne Strijp, president of Heineken Spain, also …
Concentrated Solar Power is suitable because of Kuwait’s good solar radiation
Kuwait will be releasing the Request for Qualification (RFQ) for the various phases of the much anticipated 4-gigawatts (GW) Shagaya solar power project by the end of this year, a government official disclosed. Gannam Al Ajmi, Project Engineer, Renewable Energy, Ministry of Electricity, Water and Renewable Energy (MEWRE) said the RFQ for various phases will …
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Cosin Solar now supplies 1 GW of China’s tower Concentrated Solar Power
Recently, Cosin Solar Technology Co., Ltd. (“Cosin Solar”) and State Power Investment Shandong Electric Power Engineering Consulting Institute Co., Ltd. (“SDEPCI”) signed the contract for Solar Field , MSR Systems and MS Electric Heating System equipment of the SPIC Xinjiang Turpan Shanshan Qiketai 100MW CSP project. It’s meaning that Cosin Solar will provide advanced Solar field, …
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The lifting of steel structure of the main plant of the world’s highest altitude concentrated solar power plant project has been completed
On the afternoon of September 21, with the lifting of the last trusses of steel roof, it marked the completion of the lifting of the steel structure of the main plant of Tibet Zabuye Integrated Energy EPC Project. In order to ensure the completion of the steel structure lifting task of the main plant on …
Progress in research and technological advancements of commercial concentrated solar power plants
A global transition towards more sustainable production and consumption systems is underway. This transition process is particularly visible in energy systems, where modern renewables, majorly solar PV and wind power, accounted for around 10 % of global power production in 2020. It is widely believed that the transition to a low carbon economy would inevitably increase …