Reported from CSPPLAZA:On 20~22 June 2018, in Beijing, Business Director of the FraunhoferISE, Anna Heimsath attended the Fifth China International CSP conference and CSPPLAZA annual meeting (CPC2018). One of the main breakthroughs in trough and tower CSP technology lies in the improvement of power generation efficiency by optimizing various designs. …
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Senior Representative of IRENA, Simon Benmarraze Addressed to The Guest of CPC2018
Reported from CSPPLAZA: On 20~22 June 2018, in Beijing, senior representative of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Simon Benmarraze attended the the Fifth China International CSP conference and CSPPLAZA annual meeting (CPC2018), organized by CSPPLAZA and delivered a speech. He pointed out that IRENA has always been committing to …
Read More »247 Solar: A simple, low-cost CSP technology suitble for the Chinese market
Reported from CSPPLAZA: On June 20-22, the 5th China International CSP Station Conference & CSPPLAZA Annual Conference 2018 (CPC2018) was held in Beijing. Bruce Anderson, CEO of 247 Solar, attended the conference and published a presentation named A simple, low-cost CSP technology suitble for the Chinese market. Anderson claims that …
Read More »Cases Sharing of Abengoa’s Participation in China’s two CSP Demonstration Projects
Report from CSPPLAZA: CSP technology is still in its infancy in China, but it has a longer history worldwide. How does the LCOE of CSP develop in the world? how to use this experience to develop CSP Project in China? On 20~22 June 2018, the Fifth China International CSP conference …
Read More »CEO of BrightSource shares the progress & experience of Israel Ashalim project
Reports from CSPPLAZA : BrightSource is an US enterprise which has long been focusing on China’s CSP market. In 2014, BrightSource and Shanghai electric set up a joint venture and actively participated in the first batch of demonstration projects in China,joined together to expand the overseas market and win the …
Read More »Fichtner:Experience of Owner’s Engineer for China 50MW CSP project
Reported from CSPPLAZA: The Fichtner group is Germany’s biggest independent engineering and consultancy enterprise for infrastructure projects,with Project experience in more than 170 countries. Fichtner has been active in the field of CSP technology for more than 30 years. participates more than 130 CSP related projects, mainly as Owner’s Engineer …
Read More »Price of CSP to drop to $60/MWh by 2020, IRENA predicts; Saudi Arabia plans billions in solar investments
CSP to provide power at $60/MWh by 2020, IRENA predicts Auction results suggest that CSP will provide electricity for between $60/MWh and $100/MWh by 2020, according to the International Renewable Energy Agency’s annual report on renewable power costs. According to the report, CSP enjoys a higher learning rate – the …
Read More »Tender System is Driving CSP Prices Down
The tender process favored by the likes of Chile and Dubai is the main force in driving down CSP prices, according to Ranjan Moulik, head of renewables at investment bank Natixis CIB. At CSP Seville, Moulik cited Brazil as one of the pioneers of renewables tenders, saying wind power reached …
Read More »Solar energy could be stored, bottled and shipped globally?
Solar energy could be stored, bottled and shipped globally in existing ammonia infrastructure as a zero carbon liquid fuel, according to Keith Lovegrove, the author or co-author of over 170 research papers and technical reports. His comments come at a time when ARENA, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency has just …
Read More »CPV+CSP-Hybrid Design of Solar Energy System
The giant mirrors of a prototype solar energy system stands in the desert near the Santa Cruz River west of Tucson. It adopts hybrid design, mainly including a giant parabolic reflector(25 feet long), a dichroic mirror, a black tube. The critical component is a dichroic mirror that reflects some solar …
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