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Brenmiller Energy to build a 10 MW CSP plant in Israel
Brenmiller Energy plans to build a 10 MW Concentrated Solar Power plant with a 20-hour energy storage system.The 300 million shekel ($77.27 million) project would be built on a 110 acres (45 hectare)...
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Solar thermal power plant vaporizes birds
Shayne Jacopian for redOrbit.com – @ShayneJacopian The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project utilizes thousands of mirrors to reflect solar energy onto a tower containing millions of pounds of salt. The...
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SwRI receives $4.9 M funding to research high-efficiency supercritical CO2...
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has been awarded $4.9 million by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as part of a $9.9 million continuation contract to manufacture and test a high-efficiency...
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Novel hybrid CPV/CSP system proposed by researchers at North China Electric...
In concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) systems only a small part of the incident solar energy can be converted into electricity and the majority of the incident energy is dissipated as waste heat....
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New high-efficiency thermoelectric material to recover waste heat
Researchers at the University of Houston have created a new thermoelectric material, intended to generate electric power from waste heat, either from a vehicle tailpipe, an industry or a power...
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India’s solar dream: does the country have enough water?
Narendra Modi’s ambitious solar energy expansion may be scuppered by lack of water, particularly in arid regions where the biggest solar farms are planned.Enthusiasm for solar energy has grown recently...
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Increasing CSP competitiveness in South Africa
While South Africa makes evident steps towards increasing concentrated solar power (CSP) competitiveness, repetition of inflexible project parameters may hinder cost reduction in reality. Aalborg CSP...
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Sandia CSP Group Performs First On-Sun Testing of Falling Particle Receiver...
In March, Sandia’s concentrating solar power research team performed a first-of-its-kind on-sun testing of a 1-MWth (megawatt-thermal) continuously recirculating falling particle receiver system....
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Aries Ingeniería y Sistemas emerges as a key player in the development of CSP...
Aries Ingeniería y Sistemas and CGN Delingha Solar Energy Corporation have recently signed an (Owner’s Engineer) OE contract, after China CSP developer launched a competitive tender process. Delingha...
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STT commissions the first heliostat field in Saudi Arabia
Solar Tower Technologies (STT) announces the successful commissioning of the very first heliostat field in Saudi Arabia. The heliostat field consisting of 66 heliostats, 8 m2 reflector area each, has...
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