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

Brussels, 6 March 2019. ESTELA welcomes the “Integrated National Energy and Climate Plans” recently sent by the Spanish government under the Governance 2030 Regulation covering the ten-year period 2021 to 2030. In Spain, the draft National “Integrated National Energy and Climate Plans” (NECPs) has been approved...

    This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 823802. Concentrating Solar Thermal (CST) power is a very promising renewable energy resource. So far, the best known application is electricity generation in bulk thermodynamic cycles, but...

SMARTSPEND project aims for more and better designed public support for energy technology Research & Innovation On the 17th January, SMARTSPEND project partners met in Brussels to kick off this 3-year-project. Running until December 2021, SMARTSPEND will explore how investments in R&D in clean energy can...

Ouarzazate (Morocco), 07 November 2018 – The consortium formed by the engineering and technology company SENER and SEPCO III has completed the reliability test for the 150-MW Noor Ouarzazate III thermoelectric solar plant. It is one more step in the start-up of the facility, which...

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...