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China’s largest trough solar thermal power plant, located in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, generated 330 million kilowatt-hours of electricity in the 12-month period ending on March 31 this year. Designed and built by China Shipbuilding New Power Co. Ltd., the 100-megawatt solar thermal power generation and storage project in Urad Middle Banner passed a …
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Saudi Electricity Company’s (SEC) Green Duba Integrated Solar Combined Cycle (ISCC) Power Plant, located in Duba in Tabuk province, is expected to be completed by the third quarter of 2023. “The Operation and Maintenance (O&M) assessment work is currently in progress and the project is expected to be ready by early third quarter 2023,” a …
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Australia’s transition to renewables is gathering speed, but there’s a looming problem with storage. We will need much more long-duration storage to get us through the night, once coal and fossil gas exit the system. We also need to find new and better ways to create heat for industrial processes. Renewables can supply much of …
Chile’s state-owned Codelco, the world’s largest copper producer, said on Monday it had renewed a clean energy contract with Canada’s Innergex Renewable Energy for its Gabriela Mistral division in Chile’s northern desert region. Pampa Elvira is a solar thermal plant. Credit: Energia Llaima Innergex owns 55% of Pampa Elvira Solar, which generates heat through solar …
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619MWh Daily Generation – Power China Gonghe 50MW Concentrated Solar Power Project Recently, the news came from Power China Gonghe 50MW Molten Salt Tower CSP Project, after the single-day power generation reached 572,000 kWh on March 9, 2023, the single-day power generation of the CSP plant reached another record high of 619,000 kWh on March …
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There was a time, not long ago, when the future of electricity generation looked something like the opening scene of Blade Runner 2049, with endless arrays of mirrors in concentric circles. Concentrated solar power (CSP) uses mirrors to focus heat from the Sun to drive a steam turbine and generate electricity. While CSP was once …
ETH seeks Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Solar Energy Engineering Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) of Solar Energy Engineering The Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (www.mavt.ethz.ch) at ETH Zurich invites applications for the above-mentioned position. Successful applicants must demonstrate an excellent international record of research accomplishments in solar energy science and engineering. The new professor …
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Concentrated solar power plants belong to the category of clean sources of renewable energy. The paper discusses the possibilities for the use of molten salts as storage in modern CSP plants. Besides increasing efficiency, it may also shift their area of application: thanks to increased controllability, they may now be used not only to cover …
EPC Tender-POWERCHINA Tuokexun 100 MW Concentrated Solar Power Project On March 27, POWERCHINA Renewable Energy Co., Ltd. conducted a public bidding for its 100MW CSP EPC project of POWERCHINA Tuokexun 100 MW CSP + 900 MW PV Project. Project duration: 600 days. The deadline for submission of tender documents is 10:00 a.m. on April 18, …
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A thermal storage tank failure ended Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) development in the US. At the world’s first utility-scale Tower CSP project with storage, the molten salt thermal energy storage tank sprang a leak. SolarReserve’s Crescent Dunes 110 MW project was the only Tower CSP with thermal energy storage among the first five commercial CSP …