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As one of China 1st phase of 20 pilot CSP projects, NWEPDI 50MW MS Tower CSP project has been announced to open its purchasing tender next week on January 16th. There will be four separate biddings: Solar collection system Steam generator Steam turbine Generator equipment Click...
An international consortium led by the DLR Institute of Solar Research, will build and operate a solar thermal molten salt parabolic trough test facility in Évora (Portugal). Members of the consortium are the German companies TSK Flagsol Engineering, eltherm, Yara, and Steinmüller Engineering, the South...
The European Commission has finally released the new long-awaited Winter Package proposal on the 1st December. This proposal consist in a series of legislative proposals with ambitious overarching aims that include improving energy efficiency, advancing the uptake of market efficient RES and electricity market liberalisation....
On 11 November, President of ESTELA, Dr. Luis Crespo participated at MASEN's side event: "What are the advantages of storage for an ENR-based energy mix?" during the COP22 in Marrakesh. Speakers: CEA, Florence Lambert, Manager of LITEN DLR, Christoph Richter, Project Manager CEA, Florence Lambert, Manager of...
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) received 30 Expressions of Interest (EOI) by the closing date of 27 October 2016 for the 200 megawatt Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Plant, constituting Phase IV of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. The park is part...
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) intends to launch the tender for the 200-MW Phase I of the 1-GW concentrated solar power (CSP) project in the emirate during the first half of 2017, a senior official told Zawya Projects. Waleed Salman, executive vice president for strategy...
The Board of Trustees of the Cyprus Institute (CyI) has ratified the appointment of Dr. Manuel Blanco as the EC-funded European Research Area (ERA) Chair holder in the field of Solar Thermal Energy. He will join the Energy Division of the Cyprus Institute’s Energy, Environment...
In the framework of STAGE project, IMDEA Energy and CIEMAT will organise an one-day Workshop: Thermal Storage for Solar Thermal Concentrating Plants, which will take place on the 14 of September, at the premises of IMDEA in Mardrid. This Workshop addresses Companies, Universities and Research Centres who develop, design and...
Johannesburg, June 8, 2016 – A SENER, ACCIONA and TSK built Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant in South Africa has set a new African record for the continuous, round the clock supply of electricity. Within the first month of commercial operation, the newly-inaugurated 50 MW...
Santiago, Chile. June 2, 2016.- Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A. (SQM) (NYSE: SQM; Santiago Stock Exchange: SQM-B, SQM-A) announced today that the Company has decided to increase its total potassium nitrate production capacity by 500,000 metric tons per year. This increase will bring SQM’s potassium...