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Recently, in the presence of Susana Jiménez, Minister of Energy, Cerro Dominador began the last phase of construction and gave a tour of the progress in its Concentrated Solar Power Plant (CSP) that will have a 250-meter tower where the receiver will capture the heat reflected from close to 11 …

The concentrated solar power plants has generated electricity for 24 hours a day on the 31st day of July, obtaining the generation record above 100 MW over 723 hours. The concentrated solar power has set a record for monthly electricity generation, reaching 899 GWh in July, according to the REE …

Reported from CSPPLAZA: Yumen Xinchen 50MW molten salt Beam Down tower CSP project was officially selected as one of the first batch of CSP pilot projects in China in September 2016. With a total investment of  1.79 billion yuan, the project is expected to be completed within 2 years. The project is located …

There are currently no uniformly applicable standards or regulations for approval and market introduction of novel heat transfer fluid for operation in solar thermal parabolic trough power plants. In principle, the medium must be independently qualified in terms of its chemical and thermodynamic properties. A considerable large-scale technical effort is …

Once dismissed as commercially unviable, parabolic dishes are starting to show signs of reemergence in the CSP industry. Designers of a new breed of parabolic CSP dishes claim to have addressed the inefficiencies of previous models and created dishes with the potential to generate cost effective utility scale electricity. Whereas …

Following the May closing of $758 million in financing by Cerro Dominador, Latin America’s first combined concentrated solar power (CSP) and solar PV project is moving forward. The news got lost a little back in the middle of May when Cerro Dominador — the company created to develop the 210 …

Up until today, sbp sonne (schlaich bergermann partner) has developed three different types of parabolic trough collectors of which the EuroTrough collector is the most frequently applied. As one of the most commercialized technology, this collector will also be applied in the 100 MW Urat Solar Thermal Power in Inner …

The Hassyan Clean Coal Power Plant, situated in the area of Saih Shuaib on Dubai’s border with Abu Dhabi, and part of the Jebel Ali Wildlife Sanctuary,  now being built bears witness to the rise of Chinese businesses as truly sophisticated investors who focus primarily on inclusive and sustainable growth. …

Spain’s concentrated solar power association, Protermosolar has published a report that models a plan to achieve 85 per cent renewable energy by 2030 using a combination of wind, solar PV, and concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies. The association believes would also reduce emissions by 92% by cutting coal and nuclear …

Eskom Chief Executive Phakamani Hadebe Eskom has finally canned the 100MW concentrating solar power (CSP) plant near Upington in the Northern Cape after prolonged uncertainty, saying the decision had the blessing of the project’s financiers. Eskom spokesperson Khulu Phasiwe said yesterday that the power utility decided to make a U-turn …