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World's tallest solar tower to be fitted with a CMI receiver In 2021, a 260-meter high solar tower is set to rise in the Emirate of Dubai and, when the thousands of mirrors of its solar field turn to face to its summit, they will light up a CMI...
The Department of the Environment and Energy of the Australian Government just launched a consultation process about the new generation investments in Australia (see PDF). The paper – besides describing the shortcomings of the current market situation in the country with too high prices and low...
ESTELA welcomes the latest political commitment on the legally-binding RES target of 32% by 2030, agreed by European Parliament and Councils 19th June 2018, Brussels. Europe leads the global clean energy transition: EU strike deal on 32% binding renewable energy target. 14 June was a remarkable day...
The renewable energy industry associations give a cautious approval to the outcomes of the negotiations between the European Union co-legislators on the Renewable Energy Directive, setting the objective for renewable energy deployment in the upcoming decade. The 32% renewable energy target to 2030 is a...
Recognizing the numerous benefits of regional electricity market integration, France, Germany, Morocco, Portugal and Spain signed a joint declaration, during COP22 in Marrakech, on the establishment of a roadmap for sustainable electricity trade (SET) between Morocco and the European internal energy market. An activity was...
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) today released a report outlining how concentrated solar thermal (CST) technology could be a commercially viable form of dispatchable renewable energy within a decade. Last year, ARENA called for industry participants worldwide to respond to a Request for Information (RFI)...
Johannesburg (South Africa), 28 February 2018 - The engineering and technology group SENER and ACCIONA Industrial have achieved the connection of the 100 Mw Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant to 132kV ESKOM Distribution line on 23 February 2018. Main and auxiliary transformers have been energized...
Brussels, 24th Jan 2018. The General Assembly of the European Solar Thermal Electricity Association (ESTELA), re-elected Dr. Luis Crespo for the next 2-year term. Together with the President election, the Executive Committee of the Association was also newly mandated. Dr. Luis Crespo was appointed unanimously...
The Northern Cape project is a 100MW plant and is the first concentrated solar power plant in the country, which can generate electricity as well as store energy The KaXu Solar One concentrated solar power (CSP) project, in the Northern Cape, was on Wednesday presented with...