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Thermax, an Indian energy and environment company and FRENELL, a German concentrated solar power company, have been awarded by India’s state owned utility NTPC, to execute Asia’s first integrated solar thermal power plant at Dadri in Uttar Pradesh, India. The project involves the integration of a concentrated solar field into …

A team is close to completing the world’s first linear Fresnel concentrating solar power (CSP) plant paired with thermal storage. It comes as storage becomes increasingly important for the economics of CSP. In October SUNCNIM, a subsidiary of the French industrial group CNIM, announced financial close for eLLO, a 9-megawatt …

SolarReserve plans its second U.S. dispatchable solar project to be at the gigawatt scale of a nuclear plant. At 2 GW, the Sandstone Energy 10X project will have nearly 20 times the 110-MW capacity of Crescent Dunes; the California firm’s first fully dispatchable solar plant, able to deliver solar on …

On the afternoon of October 25th, the opening ceremony of Supcon Delingha 50MW CSP project was held in the solar industrial park of Qinghai, Delingha. This is the first CSP demonstration project that has officially announced the start of construction, after the release of Feed-In-Tariff policy and the first batch of …

China’s first utility-scale CSP plants will lower development costs using domestic supply but extreme weather conditions in high-DNI areas could offset savings, industry experts told CSP Today. China is to complete its first batch of 20 CSP projects by 2018, representing a total capacity of 1.4 GW, China’s National Energy …

Ground was broken this week at the R9-billion, 100 MW Kathu Solar Park concentrated solar power (CSP) project, in the Northern Cape, which is set to be one of the largest projects of its kind in the country. The parabolic-trough technology plant, which is being developed by an Engie-led consortium, …

Dubai: Dubai Electricity & Water Authority (Dewa) will award the tender to develop the first phase of the world’s largest concentrated solar power (CSP) project at Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in the first quarter of 2017, managing director and chief executive Saeed Mohammad Al Tayer said on …

Reported from CSPPLAZA: Ivanpah, Solana and Crescent Dunes, regarded as landmark in the history of CSP plants development, have attracted attention of people across the world, especially in China market. Given that Crescent Dunes has been in operation for more than six month since formally put into operation in Feburary …

*Shangyi 50MW DSG Tower CSP project Location of project: Shangyi, Zhangjiakou, Hebei DNI: about 1600KWh/m2/yr Project owner: DaHua Engineering Management(Group) Co., Ltd., Institute of Electrical Engineering of CAS Route of technology: DSG tower, 4 hours of molten salt thermal storage Source of technology: Institute of Electrical Engineering of CAS Status …

The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) today revealed the names of the companies that won the advisory service contract for the planned 200-MW concentrated solar power (CSP) project in Dubai. The winning consortium is led by KPMG Lower Gulf Ltd, with a focus on the financial side, alongside Mott …