With seven new projects, NREL will elevate research in concentrating solar power (CSP). The projects are funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) through a Nat...
Renewable energies generated 41.8% of electricity from January to September in Spain: wind energy 19.4%, concentrated solar power thermal 2.2% and photovoltaic 3.3%.Generation of the month of Septembe...
With the completion of the salt melting process at the Kathu solar thermal power plant in South Africa, SENER and Acciona have achieved another important milestone.The molten salts, which will be used...
Reported from CSPPLAZA: From September 10th to 13th, the standard draft review meeting of the first IEC international standard, “IEC 62862-3-1 General requirements for the design of parabolic tro...
Reported from CSPPLAZA: KaXu Solar One is South Africa’s first concentrated solar power plant using parabolic trough technology.The solar thermal power plant, expected to operate for 30 years, using t...
In the revised draft Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) 2010–2030 of South Africa’s government, published on August 28, there is no explicit support for new CSP projects.South Africa’s installed CSP capac...
Scientists at NREL find that – in a co-generation setup where CSP using a supercritical carbon dioxide (s-CO2) power cycle is combined with thermal desalination – and they go on to figure out the proc...
Reported from CSPPLAZA: As the marvelous demonstration of human wisdom in energy utilization, CSP plant is generally large in size, mostly located in sparsely populated areas with rich sunlight. In ad...
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