CleanTechnica » Molten Salt Thermal Energy Storage http://cleantechnica.com Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:48:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 Abengoa Secures Financing For 100 MW Solar Thermal Power Plant In South Africa http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/19/abengoa-secures-financing-100-mw-solar-thermal-power-plant-south-africa/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/19/abengoa-secures-financing-100-mw-solar-thermal-power-plant-south-africa/#comments Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:44:46 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=76549 Abengoa has reported progress on its third solar power project under South Africa’s ambitious Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement program. The Xina Solar One concentrated solar power project has secured debt financing, the owner and developer of the project, Abengoa, has announced. The project, with a capacity of 100 MW, was secured by the company

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/12/19/abengoa-secures-financing-100-mw-solar-thermal-power-plant-south-africa/feed/ 0 IEA Repeats Positive View For Global Solar Thermal Electricity http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/13/global-solar-thermal-electricity-iea-bullish/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/13/global-solar-thermal-electricity-iea-bullish/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2014 08:00:35 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=73073 Photovoltaic solar power seems to get most of the attention when it comes to solar (for good reason), but global solar thermal electricity from concentrating solar power plants has also improved a lot in the last five years. The technology is diversifying, costs are dropping, and new markets have begun to open up. At the same

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/10/13/global-solar-thermal-electricity-iea-bullish/feed/ 6 Australia Solar Technology Makes Storage Breakthrough http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/19/australia-solar-technology-makes-storage-breakthrough/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/19/australia-solar-technology-makes-storage-breakthrough/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2014 18:10:11 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=72185 RenewEconomy By Giles Parkinson Novatec Solar – a company majority owned by Australia’s Transfield Holdings – has commissioned a solar thermal energy demonstration plant in Spain that is based on a new type of molten salt storage technology. The Germany-based Novatec Solar says the new plant uses a process called direct molten salt or DMS

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/09/19/australia-solar-technology-makes-storage-breakthrough/feed/ 23 50 MW Solar Tower With Storage Possible In Alinta http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/29/alinta-considers-50mw-solar-tower-storage/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/29/alinta-considers-50mw-solar-tower-storage/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2014 08:50:22 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=69991 Originally published on RenewEconomy. The prospects of Australia finally constructing a stand alone solar thermal energy system with storage have advanced after Alinta Energy announced the results of a pre-feasibility study for solar options at its ageing and partially closed coal-fired power plants in Port August, South Australia. Alinta, under enormous pressure from local groups

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/07/29/alinta-considers-50mw-solar-tower-storage/feed/ 4 Cerro Dominador Solar-Thermal Mega-Project Moves Forward http://cleantechnica.com/2014/05/15/cerro-dominador-solar-project-moves-forward-environmental-approval-granted-solar-thermal-mega-project/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/05/15/cerro-dominador-solar-project-moves-forward-environmental-approval-granted-solar-thermal-mega-project/#comments Thu, 15 May 2014 18:50:30 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=66791 Originally published on Solar Love. Chile 110 MW CSP Plant Moves Forward (via Solar Love) The Cerro Dominador solar-thermal mega-project being developed in the Atacama Desert in Chile just took a big step forward after obtaining a favorable environmental rating from Chilean Environmental Service authorities. The Cerro Dominador project will… &nbsp

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/05/15/cerro-dominador-solar-project-moves-forward-environmental-approval-granted-solar-thermal-mega-project/feed/ 1 Taking A Deep Dive Into Hydrogen (Charts, Graphs, Tables, More) http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/27/taking-deep-dive-hydrogen/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/27/taking-deep-dive-hydrogen/#comments Sun, 27 Apr 2014 19:30:54 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=65741 We cover quite a lot of university and research institute news here on CleanTechnica. I know a lot of readers love that stuff, but there’s an important downside to news from those sources that is quite prevalent. That news is often overly colorful, optimistic, and revolutionary in its style of writing. Some of those advances

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/27/taking-deep-dive-hydrogen/feed/ 22 The Democratizing Promise Of Energy Storage http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/04/democratizing-promise-energy-storage/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/04/democratizing-promise-energy-storage/#comments Fri, 04 Apr 2014 08:13:47 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=64868 While energy storage is a small fraction of total power generation capacity, promising examples suggest that distributed energy storage could change the electricity system during the next decade as fundamentally as distributed renewable energy has in the last decade. Right now, 95% of energy storage in the U.S. is water pumped uphill into in reservoirs,

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/04/democratizing-promise-energy-storage/feed/ 28 Energy Storage Market Set To Explode http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/31/energy-storage-market-set-explode/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/31/energy-storage-market-set-explode/#comments Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:10:42 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=61956 Energy storage is often heralded as the “holy grail” of the energy market. It seems that a number of researchers and companies have worked hard and long enough that this holy grail is ready to see the light. According to market research firm IHS, the energy storage market is set to “explode” to an annual

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/31/energy-storage-market-set-explode/feed/ 108 13 Huge Clean Energy Breakthroughs Of 2013 http://cleantechnica.com/2013/12/23/13-huge-clean-energy-breakthroughs-2013/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/12/23/13-huge-clean-energy-breakthroughs-2013/#comments Mon, 23 Dec 2013 12:00:12 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=60395 Originally published on ThinkProgress. By Kiley Kroh. While the news about climate change seems to get worse every day, the rapidly improving technology, declining costs, and increasing accessibility of clean energy is the true bright spot in the march toward a zero-carbon future. 2013 had more clean energy milestones than we could fit on one

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/12/12/energy-storage-solutions-101-video/feed/ 15 Top 10 Most Interesting Energy & Environment Articles From October http://cleantechnica.com/2013/11/09/top-10-interesting-energy-environment-articles-october/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/11/09/top-10-interesting-energy-environment-articles-october/#comments Sun, 10 Nov 2013 00:54:11 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=58732 Here’s my latest monthly report of the “Top 10” most compelling clean energy, climate, and environment-related news stories encountered last month. These articles may have an impact on your business, your life, and the world we live in. Or, at the very least, might surprise you about what’s going on. Over a thousand articles were

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/11/09/top-10-interesting-energy-environment-articles-october/feed/ 4 The Intermittency of Wind and Solar: Is It Only Intermittently a Problem? http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/12/intermittency-of-wind-and-solar-is-it-only-intermittently-a-problem/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/12/intermittency-of-wind-and-solar-is-it-only-intermittently-a-problem/#comments Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:00:33 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=54958 Editor’s Note: One of CleanTechnica’s awesome readers has provided us with this exclusive guest post on the “intermittency” of various power sources — renewable and non-renewables. The article “knocks it out of the park,” so to speak. Get into a discussion with someone about the “intermittency” of wind or solar power? Add this article to

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/07/02/30-year-old-concentrating-solar-power-plant-looking-to-upgrade-add-storage/feed/ 3 Is Concentrating Solar Power The Technology That Saves Humanity? http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/14/is-concentrating-solar-power-the-technology-that-saves-humanity-read-more-at-httpcleantechnica-com20130614is-concentrating-solar-power-the-technology-that-saves-humanity/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/14/is-concentrating-solar-power-the-technology-that-saves-humanity-read-more-at-httpcleantechnica-com20130614is-concentrating-solar-power-the-technology-that-saves-humanity/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:53:28 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=52812 Concentrating solar power could unlock America’s clean energy future and boost solar from intermittent contributor to baseload generator – if we clear the regulatory, technological, and financial hurdles standing in the way, says a new white paper

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/06/14/is-concentrating-solar-power-the-technology-that-saves-humanity-read-more-at-httpcleantechnica-com20130614is-concentrating-solar-power-the-technology-that-saves-humanity/feed/ 43 Nearly 100% Of New California Electricity To Be Solar In 2H 2013 http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/16/nearly-100-of-new-california-electricity-to-be-solar-in-2h-2013/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/16/nearly-100-of-new-california-electricity-to-be-solar-in-2h-2013/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 15:00:54 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=51789 Herman Trabish of Greentech Media has happened across a pretty interesting find — 97% of new electricity generation capacity in line to be added to the California grid in the second half (2H) of 2012 is from solar power projects. This is according to the California Independent System Operator (the ISO), as published in the 2012 Annual Report on

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/16/nearly-100-of-new-california-electricity-to-be-solar-in-2h-2013/feed/ 8 Outlook Bright for Molten Salt Thermal Energy Storage as Concentrated Solar Power Grows http://cleantechnica.com/2011/08/11/outlook-bright-for-molten-salt-thermal-energy-storage-as-concentrated-solar-power-grows/ http://cleantechnica.com/2011/08/11/outlook-bright-for-molten-salt-thermal-energy-storage-as-concentrated-solar-power-grows/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 06:53:05 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=29572 Construction of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants will drive global demand for molten salt thermal energy storage systems out to 2020, making the molten salt thermal energy storage (TES) market the largest of three high-temperature energy storage (HTS) technologies

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