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ESTELA, the European Solar Thermal Electricity Association, based in Brussels is looking for an EU Policy / Project Manager with technical engineering background. If you're interested in this position, find out more details here. ...
Brussels,15th February, 2017 – ESTELA, the European Association for Solar Thermal Electricity, welcomes the technical report “Concentrating Solar Power Gen3 Demonstration Roadmap” released in January 2017 by NREL[1] in the context of the SunShot Initiative – a program launched in 2011 in the U.S. aiming...
A Renewable Energy Target which rewards all generated MWhs equally has driven the successful uptake of the cheapest technologies for creating MWhs – what a surprise! Building large LNG export plants connected to the East Coast gas system has pulled gas prices up to world...
As one of China 1st Phase 20 pilot CSP projects (7 parabolic trough), Royal Tech Yumen 50MW CSP Parabolic Trough Project (details as below) is calling for steam turbine and generators, for which the biddings will be open this Feb.28 and Mar.4 respectively. 3 biddings under...
With Israel traditionally running its economy on fossil fuels, renewable energy has long been hobbled by bureaucracy and a lack of incentives In sunny Israel, solar energy supplies only a small percentage of the nation's power needs, leaving it far behind countries with cloudier and colder...
The world’s biggest solar-thermal power plant is finally producing enough electricity. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in Southern California initially failed to meet contractual obligations, and a yearlong forbearance deal with Pacific Gas & Electric Co. expired Wednesday. After fine-tuning the complex facility that uses...
China’s innovation policy sets an ambitious goal: It shall be an innovative country by 2020 and global innovation leader by 2050, transforming from a factor-driven economy to an innovation-driven one. Indeed, according to the Global Competitiveness Index 2016–2017, China has already succeeded in rising to...
A year on from the launch of Morocco’s Noor I solar farm, the North African country is continuing to take positive steps to reduce their environmental impact by transitioning to renewable energy sources. Having declared at COP21 in Paris last year that they were aiming to...
HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), received a Finnish delegation headed by HE Kai Mykkänen, the Finnish Minister for Foreign Trade and Development. The meeting supports DEWA’s commitment to establish cooperation and joint efforts, and exchange...
Capital One Bank (McLean, VA, U.S.) has acquired a tax equity stake in the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project with an investment of up to USD 78 million, SolarReserve LLC (Santa Monica, California, U.S.) announced on January 17th, 2017. Crescent Dunes is a utility-scale CSP facility featuring SolarReserve’s proprietary...