California is a global leader in climate policy, and its goal of 100% clean energy by 2045 is now law in the 5th largest economy after China, the US, Japan and Germany. While the state has had a cap and trade program in place since 2013, it has been the simplicity and...
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SolarPACES 2017 Conference Proceedings Now Published with AIP
The SolarPACES 2017 conference proceedings are now published with AIP, the American Institute of Physics (www.aip.org), volume number 2033. All accepted papers are freely accessible on the AIP website and contain an ISBN number for the volume as well as individual DOI...
Glasspoint Signs up 2nd Oman Solar EOR Project at Twice the Size: 2 GWth
GlassPoint just signed an agreement with a second oil company operating in Oman to facilitate oil production by the use of 2 GWth solar-generated steam replacing fossil fuel-generated steam.
How solar thermal energy storage works with concentrated solar
If you could capture the sun, this gigantic thermal energy storage tank is what that looks like
How CSP Can Help Remove CO2 from air
A New Paper Describes a Solar Thermal Air Capture of Carbon Dioxide with Amino Acids Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) will play a key role in a decarbonized economy because it can produce heat without adding any carbon emissions. Though for centuries we’ve produced heat...
IEA: China Overtaking US in Concentrated Solar Power by 2023
Source: IEA: Renewables 2018 Market analysis and forecast from 2018 to 2023 With 1.9 GW coming online, China is expected to overtake the United States to have the second-largest CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) installed capacity by 2023, as global deployment nearly...
October 2018: SolarPACES ExCo Selects a New Logo
At the 95th Meeting of the SolarPACES Executive Committee, which was held in Casablanca in October, the committee decided on a new logo to represent what solar thermal energy has to offer in today's world. SolarPACES new logo has been designed to differentiate the...
China’s First Commercial CSP Project Has Begun Operation
Source: China National Solar Thermal Energy Alliance The Delingha 50MW solar thermal power plant constructed by CGN New Energy, a subsidiary of China General Nuclear Power Corporation, in the northwestern province of Qinghai was put into operation on October 10th,...
Final Testing for 150 MW Noor III Tower CSP
SENER is about to start the final tests at Noor Ouarzazate III, after completing the first synchronization of the 150 MW Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant to the Moroccan grid. With these milestones, SENER starts the last phase before the plant’s commercial...
Climate Policy that Actually Works: How Morocco is Meeting its Clean Energy Goals
An interview reveals Morocco’s secret: MASEN (the Moroccan Agency for Sustainable Energy) is actually a renewable energy “one stop shop” – starting with climate policy, through needs assessment, planning, infrastructure development and finally structuring to mobilize project finance.
ARPA-E Awardees Aim to Store Energy for up to 4 Days
Source: ARPA-E The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the selection of 10 projects as part of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program, DAYS; Duration Addition to electricitY Storage. Awardees will develop energy storage systems to provide...
SolarReserve’s Aurora Solar Project Signs MOU for 13,000 Aussie Heliostats
US solar developer SolarReserve has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Australian firm Heliostat SA, to partner in manufacturing and assembling heliostats and heliostat components for the 150 MW Aurora CSP project that SolarReserve is developing...
Can Spain Revive the CSP Industry it Killed?
The time is right to consider what went wrong and what went right with Spain’s previous CSP policy - because an election in June put the renewable-friendly coalition that developed it back in power. Spain’s socialist-led coalition government jumpstarted virtually all...
Q&A on Chile’s CSP Lessons Learned: Carlos Arenas Coronil
Source: Center for Mediterranean Integration Lessons learned in Chile’s CSP program: A Word with Carlos Arenas Coronil, former Regional Secretary, Northern Chile Region CM. You have pushed for the development of concentrating solar power in Chile from the very...
Researchers Seek Best s-CO2 Solar Desalination from Waste Heat
Could a Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) power plant tap the waste heat it produces to desalinate water? Scientists at [simple_tooltip content='National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Denver Colorado One of several national laboratories in the United States under the...
Salt Melting Starts at SENER’s Kathu Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Project in South Africa
Source: SENER Johannesburg (South Africa), 02 August 2018 - The engineering and technology group SENER and ACCIONA Industrial have achieved another relevant milestone initiating the salt melting process at the Kathu Solar Park Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant. The...
How Three Novel Technologies Trialled in the US Will Cut CSP Cost
The DOE announced $72 million in funding of three novel pathways to raising temperature and efficiency to lower costs for three CSP tower technologies
Study: CSP Will Help China Cut Costs of Climate Action
Solar thermal energy turns out to be the key to China meeting its climate commitments. A new study investigates the best combination of renewables for providing the lowest cost to power system operators in two of China’s provinces best suited to scale up renewable...
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What are the Pros and Cons of Longer Solar Contracts?
The first-ever 35-year solar power contract – ACWA Power’s with DEWA in Dubai – had a record-low price, for CSP+storage of just 7.3 cents per kWh. Did a longer contract enable the record low price?
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