solar thermal electricity could meet up to 6 % of the world’s power needs by 2030 and 12% by 2050. This is the 4th joint report of the European Solar Thermal Electricity Association (ESTELA),Greenpeace International and SolarPACES since 2003. Just before the last edition was published in 2009, the annual market volume for …

Morocco last week inaugurated the 160-MW Noor I concentrating solar power (CSP) as the first phase of what would be the world’s largest facility of the kind. Yet, many questions remain over the future of the project. FACTS AND FIGURES A total of 500,000 twelve-metre-high curved mirrors now spread over …

Report From CSPPLAZA： Today(4th-Jan-2016), CGN Power Group opens the bidding price meeting of Solar field EPC for its 50MW CSP project in Delingha, Qinghai province. The bid meeting is held on Beijing at 10 o’clock. There were total three bidders participate in the bid opening price, the consortium formed by …

Abengoa, the Spanish renewable infrastructure developer, is thought to be hunting buyers for assets, including a large amount of storage, as it faces bankruptcy. The company filed for preliminary creditor protection a fortnight ago after failing to secure funds from investors led by Gonvarri Corporación Financiera. It now has four months …

The initial phase CSP professional training class organized by CSPPLAZA & SolEngCo which is a CSP professional consultation institute from Germany, will be held in Beijing on January 19th ~ 21th, 2016. This training will focus on four parts, such as the previous preparatory work of CSP projects development, details …

Rioglass Solar, leading manufacturer of HCE receivers and mirrors used for Solar Thermal Energy (STE) and Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) technologies, has signed an agreement with Schott Solar CSP GmbH (Schott Solar), for the acquisition of its receiver business, including the company in Spain and the assets in Germany. Jose M. Villanueva, Chairman …

Weihai Golden Solar is finalizing the construction of the new factory and office building, in line with its ever growing environmental commitments, by the end of this year. This project will raise the factory floor level with an additional 10,000 square meter and add 2000 square meter of office building. …

It’s a marriage of two energy solutions that seem to be philosophically at odds: using solar power to retrieve heavy oil. Yet, the world’s largest solar plant is now being built exactly for that purpose. In the Amal oil field in Oman, the new facility pioneered by California-based GlassPoint and …

French industrial group Alstom plans to enter the Chilean concentrating solar power (CSP) market, as part of efforts to boost its presence in the growing South American renewables sector beyond Brazil. Although present in Chile in the transmission and thermal power sectors with 400 employees, Alstom is now poised to …

News from CSPPLAZA Updated: 30-July-2015 Currently, Aerospace Shenzhou Solar Industrial Park,the solar receiver tube production line invested by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation(CASC) andChina Academy of Space Technology (CAST)and constructed by TRX Solar Technology (TRX), has got the acceptance report from CASC. TRXfinished installation, commissioning and pilot production, and …