Overseas

Research from Cranfield University has contributed to technology being used in a new multi-purpose concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in Egypt. The €22 million (£19.3m) project was funded by the EU Framework Seven programme and the City for Scientific Research and Technological Applications (SRTA-City). Located in Borg El Arab near …

Since 2011, a test solar thermal power plant has been installed at the experimental solar power plant facility in Jülich, located near Cologne, Germany. The facility is managed by the Institute for Solar Research of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It serves to test and further improve the solar thermal …

Agreements opening the way for the construction of 27 renewable-energy independent power producer (IPP) projects, with a combined investment value of R56-billion and a combined capacity of 2 300 MW, were finally signed on Wednesday April 4, after a confidence-sapping delay of over two years. At the signing event in …

ABB to build substation that will integrate solar power from Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park to electricity grid. Swiss-based ABB has won an order worth more than $90 million from Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) to build a substation that will integrate solar power from upcoming phases …

Shams Power Company, the developer, owner and operator of Shams 1,the UAE’s first large-scale concentrated solar power project , is celebrating five years of uninterrupted electricity generation at the plant this month. Located in Al Dhafra, Abu Dhabi’s western region, the 100 megawatt-capacity (MW) Shams 1 was the largest concentrated …

DUBAI: Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum broke ground on the 700MW fourth phase of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, the biggest Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project in the world. The start of …

Molten salt is currently the most common method to store heat in large CSP plants and provide a constant on-demand supply of solar power without the need for fossil fuel backup systems. Companies such as German-based Frenell, formerly Novatec, offer a turnkey solution combining a solar field and a proprietary …

510 MW Noor complex aerial view shows Noor III (tower CSP) at left, next to Noor I and II (trough CSP) ©SENER A lot is riding on Morocco’s Noor III Tower CSP with molten salts storage technology is  very young. Only one such power plant is operating globally at utility-scale …

SolarReserve and OZ Minerals have entered into a long term agreement to commission a new high voltage electricity transmission line in South Australia. New transmission line will support SolarReserve’s Aurora solar thermal project as well as OZ Minerals’ Prominent Hill mine and Carrapateena project. The high voltage power line will …

Picture: SENER Noor III If not sooner, 150 MW Noor III, the world’s second utility-scale Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) tower with molten salt storage, will deliver power to Morocco’s electricity grid by October, . “Noor III receiver installation on tower has been finalized already, so we are ready to continue …