SolarReserve Bids 24-Hour Solar At 6.3 Cents In Chile
In Chile’s last auction for power, SolarReserve bid a world record breaking low price at just 6.3 cents per kWh ($63/MWh) for dispatchable 24-hour solar.
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DOE Recaps Solar Success Story, CSP Makes The Cut
The US Department of Energy has just cast a super-critical eye over its SunShot solar energy initiative in a suite of eight newly published reports, including on on concentrating solar power systems.
Morocco’s Noor Solar Project Could Power One Million Homes
Originally published on Solar Love. The Noor Solar Project is expected to be completed in 2020 and have a capacity of 580 MW, which may be enough to power one million homes in Morocco. Eventually, wind and hydro power is scheduled to be added, raising the electricity output for the entire … [continued]
AORA Solar Inks MoU With ASU & Two Ethiopian Universities
Solar-biogas technology pioneer AORA Solar continues expanding its development work in Africa, signing a Memorandum of Understanding with Arizona State University LightWorks and two Ethiopian universities, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University and Adama Science and Technology University (ASTU). It is hoped the building of this educational infrastructure and future construction of local … [continued]
ACWA CEO: Solar Will Soon Take On Base Load Fossil Fuels
Originally published on RenewEconomy. The head of $25 billion Saudi power firm ACWA Power says that the cost of solar technologies are falling so quickly that within a few years the combination of solar PV and solar towers with storage will be able to compete directly with base load fossil … [continued]
Chile’s Mineral Industry Is Mining Renewable Energy
Originally published on The Conversation. By John Mathews Mining is the fourth-largest energy consumer in Australia, using roughly 10% of Australia’s total. Some of this comes from the electricity grid — but much is supplied offgrid in the form of diesel and other fossil fuels. Could some of this be … [continued]
CSP Company RayGen Wins Australian Technology Prize
The Australian concentrated solar PV technology (CSPV) company RayGen appears to now be firmly on the incline with its recent winning of the People’s Choice Award in the Australian Technology Competition, as well as its lining up a new deal for a 10 MW demonstration project in China. With the … [continued]
CSP Accomplishments From The DOE’s Loan Programs Office
Originally published on the ECOreport. America’s solar industry is celebrating its most stellar year. The power capacity of installations has grown from a mere 45 MW in 2003 to 4,751 MW in 2013. As Rhone Resch, President and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), puts it, solar energy … [continued]
Solar Now Mainstream In US, According To SEIA’s 2013 Market Review
Originally Published in the ECOreport. When Rhone Resch used to get together with the CEOs from other energy sectors for lunch, he always felt like the little guy at the table. He might have been President of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), but it was the major players—like gas … [continued]
“CSP Has Fallen By The Wayside” But May Come Back Big By 2020
Originally published on The ECO Report. In 2010, concentrating solar power (CSP) projects like Ivanpah were heralded as the future of utility-scale solar projects. Spain and the US led the world in the development of this technology. Since then, they have largely fallen to the wayside in the wake of … [continued]
