Posts Tagged ‘solar thermal’
3 February 2012
Spanish cleantech company Abengoa has completed installation of a 50MW solar thermal plant in Cordoba, southern Spain.
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2 February 2012
California-based solar thermal developer BrightSource Energy has revealed that it has been chosen by Sasol, together with its partner Alstom, to conduct a comprehensive front-end engineering and design study for the South Africa market.
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1 February 2012
US utility Tuscon Electric Power has contracted Areva Solar to construct a 5MW concentrated solar plant adjacent to an existing coal-fired facility.
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25 January 2012
German electronics giant Siemens has been contracted by three customers to supply four steam turbines to be used in solar thermal projects in India.
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6 January 2012
Investors and buyers are being sought as the assets of an insolvent solar company begin to be sold off.
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30 December 2011
US company SunWater Solar has completed installation of solar thermal systems for two affordable housing buildings in San Francisco owned by the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation.
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22 December 2011
One of the brightest stars of the solar sector has filed for bankruptcy, sending further shockwaves through an already embattled industry.
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21 December 2011
An Indian state will begin accepting bids from developers as it looks to establish 200MW in solar power projects.
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9 December 2011
Spanish renewable energy developer Abengoa has awarded two concentrated solar thermal projects by the South African Department of Energy as part of the country's renewable energy tenders.
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5 December 2011
Thai Solar Energy has opened a 5MW solar thermal plant at Huaykrachao, west Thailand, the first of 15 planned projects.
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29 November 2011
Solar thermal technology developer BrightSource Energy has added its SolarPLUS energy storage capability to three of its power purchase agreements with US utility Southern California Edison.
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25 November 2011
A European solar specialist has said it has reached full allocation of its fund for a Spanish project.
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24 November 2011
The giant US search engine Google has decided to stop investing in concentrated solar thermal technology through its Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal programme.
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18 November 2011
The World Bank has awarded loans worth $297m to Morocco to help finance the 500MW Ouarzazate concentrated solar power project.
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2 November 2011
The US Department of Energy will invest $60m over a three-year period into research of concentrated solar thermal power technologies.
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28 October 2011
US electrical giant General Electric’s financial services arm is jointly investing €111.1m with German fund KGAL into a 50MW concentrated solar thermal plant with integrated molten salt storage technology in Badajoz, Spain.
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28 October 2011
The chairman of Spanish utility Iberdrola has said there should be no further solar thermal plants built in the country.
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26 October 2011
US public utility holding company WGL Holdings has agreed to provide $30m in project finance to Skyline Innovations for the deployment of commercial-scale solar water heating systems throughout the US.
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25 October 2011
Chinese cleantech developer the Hanas New Energy Group has commenced construction of 92.5MW integrated solar combined cycle trough power plant in Ningxia, China.
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25 October 2011
US solar thermal manufacturer Sopogy had appointed Craig Lobdell to the newly-created position of vice president of strategy.
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