Is Saudi Arabia’s huge planning installed capacity doubtable? When I wrote two weeks ago that Saudi Arabia is targeting 41-GW of solar electricity generation, a sceptical friend rightly asked me to check this number. I was quoting the American Energy Information Administration Country analysis report. The concrete data of planning installed …
Read More »Chile -The Leading Market of PV/CSP Hybrid Plants
photo: i deal CSPV plant in Chile Some parts of Chile’s Atacama desert haven’t seen rain for more than 400 years. In places, the earth is so parched that cracks up to three metres deep criss-cross the plateaus like shattered glass. Other parts look like the surface of Mars and …
Read More »Australia-based Heliostat Signed MoUs for Its 1GW Solar Plan in India
Solar mirrors. Source: CSIRO. All rights reserved. August 10 (SeeNews) – Australian concentrated solar technology firm Heliostat has agreed with India’s Global Wind Power Ltd (GWPL) to jointly develop utility-scale projects, the first step in a 1-GW solar plan for India. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the two companies …
Read More »CSP until July Occupied 2.4% of electricity in Spain
The wind energy produced 20.3% of electricity until July 2015, 2.4% solar thermal and photovoltaic solar energy 3.3%. Generation from January to July 2015 In July the renewable energy generated 30,7,8% of electricity in Spain: wind power produced 12.9%, 3.8% solar thermal and photovoltaic solar energy 3.7%. Generation of …
Read More »What Signals Are Behind The Details of Qinghai CSP Symposium?
News from CSPPLAZA Updated:3-Aug-2015 30th July, 2015 may be a day people in CSP world will never forget. It is a day that has brought catalytic values to break the deadlock of CSP market in China. Photo:LiuQi and the delegation’s site visit to Delingha CSP Projects NEA Deputy Director General’s …
Read More »The Market of Solar-EOR Is Rising From Oman To The World
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 …
Read More »GlassPoint’s Solar-EOR Business Expansion In Oman
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 …
Read More »Solarlite CSP Is Marching Into Oman’s solar-EOR market
CSP plant. Author: Green Prophet. License: Creative Commons, Attribution 2.0 Generic July 29 (SeeNews) – German firm Solarlite CSP Technology GmbH aims to secure a foothold on the Omani solar-based enhanced oil recovery (EOR) market with its direct steam generation technology. The company has recently presented in Muscat its parabolic …
Read More »EU Concentrated Solar Power capacity unchanged at 2.3 GW in 2014
The European concentrated solar power (CSP) capacity remained stable in 2014 and will probably post a negligible increase in 2015, according to the new Solar Thermal Barometer published by EurObserv’ER. The European solar thermal collector market for producing heat (domestic hot water and heating) has not found the recipe for …
Read More »South Africa’s Bokpoort Concentrated Solar Power plant to help ease load shedding
A Concentrated Solar Power plant using new technology will be able to store power that can be released into the national electricity grid during peak demand periods. This will help with the amount of load shedding during evening hours. The Concentrated Solar Power plant which is set to release 50 …
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