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Spain’s government has published a new climate plan that targets a 100% renewable energy electricity system by 2050, with goals that outstrip those adopted by the EU and a ban on new gas and oil exploration. In its draft law presented on Tuesday (13 November), Spain’s socialist government outlines its …

US-based GlassPoint Solar, a leading supplier of solar energy to the oil and gas industry, said it has signed a deal with Occidental of Oman for the development of a 2 GW solar thermal energy plant at the Mukhaizna oilfield in the sultanate. As the lead developer of the proposed …

Azelio AB (publ) (”Azelio” or the ”Company”), a technology company that offers a system of Stirling engine-based concentrated solar power with thermal energy storage that enables electricity production around the clock, announces today its intention to list the Company’s shares on Nasdaq First North and to raise capital through an …

The consortium formed by SENER and SEPCO III has completed the reliability test for the 150-MW Noor Ouarzazate III concentrated solar power plant. It is one more step in the start-up of the facility, which is nearing commercial operation and final delivery to the client. With this reliability test, which …

The solar energy project will use three technologies to produce clean energy: 600MW from a parabolic basin complex, 100MW from a concentrated solar power tower and 250MW from photovoltaic panels. Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has signed an amendment to the Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the consortium led …

Tower & Parabolic Trough plants are the most common plants worldwide. ECILIMP Termosolar has developed a New Generation of their Cleaning Tools under the MinWaterCSP project (Minimized Water Consumption in CSP plants). This project solution has been entirely developed in Spain and tested both in Spain and Morocco. The optimization …

Spanish power group Iberdrola has agreed to sell its 90% share of the 50 MW Ibersol plant in Spain to Ence Energia at a price of 72.3 million euros ($82.3 million), Iberdrola announced October 18. Ence is Spain’s leading biomass power generator with an installed capacity of around 220 MW. …

Reported from CSPPLAZA: Recently, the 9MWe linear Fresnel DSG thermal power station developed by SUNCIM, a subsidiary of French Industrial Group CNIM, has begun solar field commissioning and is expected to realize grid-connected power generation in the near future. The project is also the first solar thermal power station in France …

SolarReserve, a leading worldwide developer of large-scale solar power projects and advanced solar thermal technology, announced it was selected to receive a $2.0 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to advance concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) research and development. With energy storage technology that …

Scientists have developed a new material and manufacturing process that would make one way to use solar power — as heat energy — more efficient in generating electricity. Credit: Purdue University illustration/Raymond Hassan A recent development would make electricity generation from the sun’s heat more efficient, by using ceramic-metal plates …