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Cerro Dominador, a subsidiary of EIG Partners, has just bid the 450 MW Likana tower CSP plant it procured from SolarReserve several years ago at under 4 cents/kWh. Was the record low bid enabled by cost reduction in tower CSP heliostat solar fields? To learn the current status of heliostat technology, which already has yielded …
In tower CSP, a solar field of mirrors or heliostats concentrate and reflect sunlight to a tower receiver IMAGE@Cerro Dominador Cerro Dominador, a subsidiary of EIG Partners, has just bid the 450 MW Likana tower CSP plant it procured from SolarReserve several years ago at under 4 cents/kWh. Was the record low bid enabled by …
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Qinghai Government announced the winners of a total capacity of 5.3GW RE auctions today, among which 3*100MW of CSP projects, 3.5GW PV and 1.5GW Wind, slightly different from the previous RFP document, in which there are 3*100MW of CSP projects, 3.8GW PV and 1.2GW Wind. Project Allocations 3 companies and 4 consortia companies wins the …
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With the UAE building the world’s largest solar power plant in Abu Dhabi, there probably hasn’t been a better time to invest in renewable energy. Unsurprisingly, many startups in the nation have taken advantage of this momentum in the move towards a sustainable future. With a similar vision in mind, Wahaj Investment L.L.C. -better known …
Heliokon co-founder Patrick Hilger and Synhelion CEO Gianluca Ambrosetti stand in front of Heliokon solar mirrors for very high temperature solar applications like Synhelion’s solar fuels Press Release: Lugano, Switzerland, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany, September 28, 2021 The Swiss solar fuel pioneer Synhelion SA has acquired German company Heliokon GmbH, an expert in concentrated solar power …
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IMAGE@NASA The out-of-this-world engineering challenges of manufacturing on the Moon present an opportunity for Concentrated Solar Thermal (CST) – the heat-based form of solar energy for solar thermochemistry To build anything on the moon, we will have to literally start from the ground up and make the material to build everything from the regolith itself; …
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Macquarie Asset Management has closed a €43 million debt investment in a concentrated solar power plant in Spain owned by Q-Energy. The 50 MW capacity parabolic trough solar plant is located in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia. Operational since 2012, the solar plant produces enough clean electricity each year to power the equivalent of …
Seramic Materials 100% recycled ceramic stores heat at temperatures up to 1250°C for thermal energy storage or high temperature CST processes Source: Utilities ME Masdar City-based Seramic Materials, a start-up company supported by accelerator The Catalyst, has developed a unique patented solution to recycle industrial solid waste into a high-temperature thermal energy storage (TES) product …
Flying across the American Southwest, brilliant points of light shine in the distant wastes of the Mojave Desert. Three glowing spots hover over the horizon, each surrounded by a gleaming field. These are the towers and mirrors (heliostats) of the Ivanpah generating station, one of the largest concentrated solar power plants on Earth. What is …
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Cerro Dominador, a subsidiary of EIG Partners, has just bid the 450 MW Likana tower CSP plant it procured from SolarReserve several years ago at under 4 cents/kWh. Was the record low bid enabled by cost reduction in tower CSP heliostat solar fields? To learn the current status of heliostat technology, we checked with Gregor …
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