Sep 1, 2014
This is the question many CSP industry players have been asking and it seems it could have a positive answer. According to José Alfonso Nebrera, Chief Executive Officer at ACS Cobra and Elisa Prieto, Strategy Director at Abengoa, the conditions are ripe for the CSP industry to achieve grid parity.
Sep 1, 2014
This week’s CSP Today news brief includes the following companies and organisations: Schott Solar CSP; ARENA, ACO Investment Group, Burma Ministry of Electric Power, ACS; Reliance Power.
Aug 29, 2014
Estimates of bird fatalities at the Ivanpah plant may have been overstated, but the CSP industry still needs to deal with the concerns head on.
Aug 29, 2014
“Really a lot of issues are all about good siting: where you have sited your project,” says SolarReserve CEO Kevin Smith of his choice of the isolated mining town of Tonopah, Nevada, for the first Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) power tower project with storage, at Crescent Dunes.
Aug 26, 2014
Ener-T, Aalborg CSP & Sojitz Corporation and Thermosol Glass have been announced as finalists of the CSP Today and PV Insider INDIASOL 2014 Awards. Voting is now open for the award of CSP Technology and Supplier of the Year.
Aug 26, 2014
Vikram Solar, NavSemi Energy, Larsen & Toubro Renew Sys and Tata Power Solar have been announced as finalists of the CSP Today and PV Insider INDIASOL 2014 Awards. Voting is now open for the unique award of Indian Solar Company Abroad.
Aug 26, 2014
This week’s CSP Today news brief includes the following companies and organisations: BrightSource Energy, NRG, Google; U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land Management, California Energy Commission; Palen Solar Holdings.
Aug 26, 2014
Recent progress in China's first commercial-scale CSP project and the soon-to-be-announced feed-in-tariffs have set the industry’s wheels in motion. But is China ready to meet its own CSP targets?
Aug 22, 2014
Phase-change materials promise to significantly reduce the cost of thermal energy storage. So how come we are still using molten salt?
Aug 22, 2014
Palen Solar Holdings (PSH) has made a change in the plan of the 500MW Palen power tower project that could now steer it safely through California’s notoriously arduous permitting process.
Aug 18, 2014
CSP Today’s recently published guide on ‘Exporting Indian solar expertise abroad’ includes interviews from key Middle Eastern solar players such as ACWA power, Masdar and Sun & Life on whether Indian companies would make good partners on CSP projects in the Middle East.
Aug 18, 2014
This week’s CSP Today news brief includes the following companies and organisations: Rayspower, Sundhy (Chengdu) Solar Power Co., CGN Solar; Climate Policy Initiative (CPI); Abengoa, The U.S. Department of Energy; African Development Bank.
Aug 18, 2014
Cooperation between the two countries –which are among the most important CSP investors-, is booming.
Aug 15, 2014
South Africa’s Department of Energy (DoE) has announced the implementation of “a staggered financial close process for Window 3”. The close, as outlined on the REIPPPP's website, was originally scheduled to take place on July 30th 2014, but has since been delayed to November.
Aug 15, 2014
It is no secret that inadequate DNI data severely hindered the initial batch of India’s NSM CSP projects. But today, with over 100 solar radiation measurement stations deployed and a national solar atlas underway, the Indian CSP industry can be optimistic about its future.
