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

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...

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...

To know the solar radiation of the next fifteen minutes is one of the objectives of the working group solar energy meteorology in DLR’s Institute of Solar Research. In cooperation with the companies CSP Services GmbH and TSK Flagsol Engineering GmbH, the scientists have developed...

As with any experiment, you would expect some surprises but the secrets behind Australia’s — if not the world’s — first commercial solar power plant are fascinating. Wandering camels and goats kept the grass down while sandwiches were toasted and billies boiled by the sun’s rays. In...

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...