HORIZON-STE Project: Policy recommendations for relaunching CSP/STE in Europe

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...

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...

Dubai has set out to grab another solar pricing record at its Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) managing director and chief executive, Saeed Al Tayer, said on Thursday that the utility would build the largest concentrated solar...

Kathu (South Africa), May 31, 2016 – The consortium formed by the engineering and technology group SENER and ACCIONA, and led by ACCIONA, a global infrastructure and renewable energy leader, has started the turnkey construction of the Kathu Solar Park Complex, after signing the contract...

Brussels, 22nd April, 2016. Following the initial phase (2005-2015) of RES penetration in the European power system, time has come to face facts:  firstly, there are two types of renewables: one is the cheaper non-dispatchable, the other one is the still-more-expensive dispatchable technology such as...