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Stellio heliostat: at the test facilities at PSA in Spain, DLR researchers Tim Schlichting and Marc Röger measured the Stellio optical efficiency using photogrammetry, deflectometry, modal analyses, deflectometry and beam characterization. IMAGE @CSPPlaza It is rare for an innovation in Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) to go from the lab to commercial in just 5 years. …
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The 2nd SFERA-III access campaign was opened on 12 November 2019. This call for projects provides free access to 13 state-of-art research infrastructures and 47 installations in Concentrated Solar Thermal power in 8 countries: – Cyprus (Cyprus Institute) – France (PROMES-CNRS, CEA) – Germany (DLR, Fraunhofer) – Italy (ENEA) – Portugal (LNEG, University of Evora) …
New sun rays for solar thermal, the energy future of Spain? With 49 operational concentrating solar power plants totaling 2.3 gigawatts, Spain is a world leader in terms of production capacity with this renewable and also technologically. And this, despite the fact that the installed power has been stagnant since 2013. The National Integrated Energy …
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Solar thermal energy is established as a key technology in accelerating the decarbonization of energy systems, both in terms of power generation and heat supply to industrial processes. At the conference you will learn how to decarbonize electricity production can be accelerated thanks to the renewable energy storage capacity and its total manageability and firmness, …
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With a daily start-up and shut-down high demands are placed on CSP-plants. Siemens power generation equipment and instrumentations and controls enable plant operators to make highest efficient use of every single sun beam. Concentrated solar thermal power is worldwide becoming a more and more important source for power generation. The reasons for this are obvious: …
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Port Augusta’s failed solar thermal project has been revived by a South Australian company with big plans for the ill-fated Aurora site. Thermal energy storage company 1414 Degrees is set to acquire SolarReserve Australia, which owns the Aurora Solar Energy Project near Port Augusta and two solar sites in New South Wales. NEW LIFE: 1414 …
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The Spanish companies Abengoa and Acciona have celebrated this week the manufacture and assembly of the last of the heliostats that form the solar field of Cerro Dominador: the first solar thermal plant in the tower of Latin America, owned by the funds managed by EIG Global Energy Partners and our construction is being carried …
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The Cerro Dominador group is working with strong construction partners on its Likana Concentrated Solar Power project to cut costs and beat gas plant prices, buoyed by progress at its first plant in Chile, Fernando Gonzalez, CEO of Cerro Dominador, told the CSP Madrid 2019 conference. As developer Cerro Dominador nears completion of Latin America’s …
This year the UN Climate Change Conference COP25 will take place from 2 to 13 December 2019 at IFEMA, Feria de Madrid, in Spain, under the incoming Presidency of the Government of Chile. The EU and its Member States will take part as Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). ESTELA …
Unlike in other countries, Chile’s open auctions have no subsidies or technology restrictions, directly pitting CSP against combined cycle gas turbine power plants for evening peaks IMAGE@Shouhang The Cerro Dominador group is working with strong construction partners on its Likana CSP project to cut costs and beat gas plant prices, buoyed by progress at its …
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