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Abengoa, the Spanish renewable infrastructure developer, is thought to be hunting buyers for assets, including a large amount of storage, as it faces bankruptcy. The company filed for preliminary creditor protection a fortnight ago after failing to secure funds from investors led by Gonvarri Corporación Financiera. It now has four months …

The giant Ivanpah solar power plant in the California Mojave Desert recently detailed how much natural gas it burned to generate power when the sun wasn’t sufficient – the equivalent to 46,000 tons of CO2 emissions in its first year, according to reports. Along with its impacts on wildlife and …

Last Friday schlaich bergermann partner sbp sonne received its third SolarPACES Technology Innovation Award. On the closing day of the SolarPACES 2015 Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, the Stellio Consortium, comprising schlaich bergermann partner sbp sonne, Ingemetal Solar, and Masermic Mechatronics, received the SolarPACES 2015 Technology Innovation Award for …

As the world’s two largest economies, energy consumers and emitters of greenhouse gases, the U.S. and China are uniquely positioned to cooperate – on policies, programs and technologies – in a way that can mutually benefit each country while serving as a model for effective engagement to address global climate …

Report from CSPPLAZA Updated: 28-Sep-2015 Mr. Mirosalv Dolejsi, Deputy Managing Director of SolEngCo GmbH, a Germany-based leading Solar Engineering Company active in renewable energy, informs about the situation  in  performance testing for CSP plants. His thought is: Developers and EPC contractors in China are looking for testing guidelines, a performance …

Decades ago, America dominated the development of an innovative technology that provides clean baseload power. The power plants were expensive upfront to build, but they could be counted on to deliver reliable electricity for decades to come. Today, however, the technology is challenged in the U.S. by cheap natural gas, …

Even though they are still far from the top 10 list, Morocco, Egypt and Saudi Arabia all inched up in the latest Ernst & Young (E&Y) country attractiveness index for all renewables. These three and Israel, which went down by a notch, are the only countries from the Middle East …