Areva teams with Sandia for CSP storage
Areva Solar has announced it is collaborating with Sandia National Laboratories on a new concentrated solar power (CSP) installation with thermal energy storage. As the company’s online video shows,...
View ArticleConcentrating solar in crisis – energy storage to the rescue?
The outlook for concentrating solar power (CSP) is a mixed one, according to Earthtechling. The technology that uses mirrors to focus sunlight to create heat, which can then be utilize to produce...
View ArticleCSP benefits from energy storage
Concentrated solar power (CSP) has one key advantage over the ever-cheapening photovoltaic (PV) competition: the ability to directly integrate thermal energy storage (TES) and thus provide dispatchable...
View ArticleThe tricky art of storing heat from the sun
A Chilean renewable energy tender that closed in October could be the first in the world where energy storage becomes the deciding factor for success. Great news for the industry? Perhaps. But actually...
View ArticleWho would want Abengoa’s assets?
By Jason Deign Abengoa, the Spanish renewable infrastructure developer, is thought to be hunting buyers for assets, including a large amount of storage, as it faces bankruptcy. The company filed for...
View ArticleWhat the Dubai tender means for CSP
By Jason Deign Concentrated solar power (CSP), a renewable technology seemingly on the wane, could be back in vogue following a record low tender bid announced Monday. The Dubai Electricity and Water...
View ArticleCould South Africa be an important energy storage market in the making?
By Jason Deign South Africa’s potential as a market for energy storage could be set to improve following a change in leadership last month. The appointment of a new president, Cyril Ramaphosa, looks...
View ArticleHow have CSP costs managed to decrease so much?
BY JASON DEIGN: New research has unpicked the record-breaking costs achieved by concentrated solar power (CSP) plants in Australia and Dubai… and concluded they could be replicated elsewhere....
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