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PROTERMOSOLAR joins Solar Impulse foundation to visit Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge

On Friday, 21 April 2023, PROTERMOSOLAR, a Spanish Association for CSP Industry and ESTELA Member, joined Solar Impulse Foundation and three other renewable associations (EuroACE, Energy Efficiency Capital Advisors and Vertex Bioenergy) to discuss the upcoming National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) update. With more than 50 concentrated solar power plants in Spain, the country …

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Combining concentrated solar power with thermal storage to avoid wasting energy

In sunny locations, solar power can sometimes produce too much electricity for the grid. Australian company RayGen hopes to solve this problem by combining its hi-tech solar systems with thermal storage, as Richard Stevenson reports. Hybrid hope RayGen’s first power plant, near Carwarp in Australia, makes use of its new technology that combines solar cells …

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China National Energy Administration issued the Notice Related to Promoting the Large-scale Development of Concentrated Solar Power

Recently, China National Energy Administration issued the Notice of the Comprehensive Department of the National Energy Administration on Matters Related to Promoting the Large-scale Development of Solar Thermal Power. The key information are as follows: First, fully understand the significance of large-scale development of solar thermal power. The industrial chain of solar thermal power is …

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Published at Solar Energy – Potential of solar thermochemical water-splitting cycles: A review

DLR Tower CSP at Julich, Germany for power and solar thermochemical research    IMAGE@DLR Abstract: This article discusses several routes available to produce hydrogen fuel, with a special focus on solar thermochemical cycles for Water Splitting (WS). Solar thermochemical WS cycles are a potential technology to produce green hydrogen and CO in the future due to …

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Concentrated Solar Power Project Tenders Last Week (Apr.15-21) in China

Procurement and Construction Bidding- Xinhua Hydropower Bozhou 100 MW Concentrated Solar Power Project On April 17, Xinhua Botai (Bole) Power Investment Co., Ltd. issued a bidding announcement for Xinhua Hydropower Bozhou 100MW CSP+900MW PV Project bid section VII: 100 MW CSP project PC general contracting. Bidding document acquisition time: from April 17, 2023 to April 24, …

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100 MW Concentrated Solar Power Tower operating in 700 MW DEWA project in Dubai

ACWA Power has announced the commercial operation of the world’s tallest concentrated solar power tower at its Noor Energy 1 project in Dubai. View of power block at the base of the Tower portion of the 950 MW DEWA project IMAGE@ACWA Power The 100 MW central tower is part of the 950 MW solar Independent …

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Redstone Concentrated Solar Power Project in South Africa Redstone Concentrated Solar Power Project to start operations in 2024

Construction is currently in progress at the Redstone Concentrated Solar Power Project, which is situated in the Humansrus Solar Park, in the Northern Cape, between Tsanstabane and Kgatelopele. 100 megawatts (MW) of electricity will be added to the national grid after construction concludes, expectedly in 2023. By 2024, the plant will start operations. Under South …

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Cascaded thermocline storage with metal wool gets test: HYBRIDplus

Three years ago, Abengoa thermal energy storage engineer Cristina Prieto exchanged the relatively secretive world of commercial CSP for academia. Now, as the professor for a newly created thermal energy storage discipline at the School of Engineering at the University of Seville, she can be creative at the research level. From the paper Thermal energy …

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Cascaded thermocline storage with metal wool gets test: HYBRIDplus

From the paper Thermal energy storage (TES) with phase change materials (PCM) in solar power plants (CSP) Concept and plant performance in which Abengoa’s thermal storage expert Cristina Prieto proposed a cascaded thermocline Three years ago, Abengoa thermal energy storage engineer Cristina Prieto exchanged the relatively secretive world of commercial CSP for academia. Now, as …

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