Reported from CSPPLAZA: Since completed on March 17, 2013, Shams1 CSP plant with 100MW has been running for about four years and six months. As one of the largest solar thermal power projects in the Middle East, the plant is designed to generate 210 million kilowatt hours of electricity per …

Reported from CSPPLAZA: The Crescent Dunes power plant, the first-of-its-kind solar plant in Central Nevada is back online and generating power after being down for repairs for eight months. The Crescent Dunes power plant, 225 miles northwest of Las Vegas, returned to service July 12 and is delivering renewable energy to customers …

Reported from CSPPLAZA: July 21st, Urat 100MW parabolic trough CSP project starts its site formation, which marks it’s officially stepping up into the stage of construction. The project is one of the first batch of 20 Demonstration CSP Projects in China, and is developed by a joint venture between China …

Reported from CSPPLAZA: When it comes to how to achieve higher economic efficiency of CSP projects, people nowadays tend to pay more attention on the fore parts of station, like solar field and thermal storage system which are also the special and difficult places compared with conventional thermal power stations. While …

Reported from CSPPLAZA: As the core equipment, heliostat plays a vital role in the process of collect solar heat and affects the optical-to-thermal energy conversion efficiency deeply. Over years, a large number of experts in CSP field have attemped to make innovations to improve the real performance of the mirrors to …

Reported from CSPPLAZA: The climate and natural environment in China are quite different from those in other countries, like Spain, US, Morocco, Chile. Most of China first batch of CSP demonstation projects are located in the northwest area of China which enjoys sufficient irradiation resources, but at the same time, needs …

Reported from CSPPLAZA:  There is no doubt that those emerging CSP markets like South Africa, Morroco and China are promising and are buried with now hope of developing CSP industry following the general decay of Spain and America market. Depending on government’s support as well as the strong capability of …

Reported from CSPPLAZA:  As the old saying goes, well begun is half done, which is also suitable for developing those large scale CSP projects. Generally speaking, the engineering phase ranks first among the whole process of developing concentrated solar power plants. In order to “squeeze the last drop of energy per …

Reported from CSPPLAZA: Since 1980s when the first batch of commercial parabolic trough solar thermal power plants was built in California, the glass mirrors and steel has been the main components of heat-collecting system of all commercial CSP-technologies. To further improve the economic efficiency of parabolic trough plants, Austrian company’s …

“I hope that this CSPPLAZA 2017 Annual Conference can strengthen and consolidate cooperation between Chinese and Spanish companies in the development of thermal solar power in China and that Spanish companies can actively contribute to the development of the 20 pilot projects approved by the Chinese administration. ” Arturo Lanz …