Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) is the form of solar that can store the sun’s energy thermally for on-demand electricity generation. CSP is clean energy, like solar PV or wind, but the back end or the power block works like any thermal energy power station (coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants are thermal energy power stations). The difference is that instead of digging up a finite fuel from the earth, CSP harvests sunlight to make thermal energy.
Originally published on Planetsave. The financially troubled international renewable energy pioneer Abengoa, which filed for bankruptcy protection last November, has … [continued]
Electricity generated by the first 160-megawatt portion of the 580-megawatt Ouarzazate CSP plant will be added to the grid in Morocco … [continued]
In early 2014, Zach covered an exciting desalination project that Masdar kicked off which specifically focused on improving the energy efficiency of the desalination process … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy by Sophie Vorrath Brazil is set to add 53 new large-scale solar and wind farms to … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Two stunning auction results in India and Chile in the last week have underscored the extraordinary … [continued]
Abengoa makes the case for concentrating solar power systems with energy storage for peaker plants to compete with gas turbines, and for baseload, too.
The cost of solar energy in the US will continue its rapid downward slide with $102 million in new DOE funding for new tech and market strategies.
Mercom Capital Group has revealed figures which show that total global corporate solar funding reached $5.9 billion in the second … [continued]
One of Israel’s largest concentrated solar power project is now one step closer to commissioning, after its developers announced financial closure … [continued]
