Posts Tagged ‘solar thermal’
26 April 2011
Solar thermal technology developer BrightSource Energy has announced its intention to list as it looks to raise $250m, filing a registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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19 April 2011
UK investor Eiser Infrastructure Partners has arranged €475m in long-term financing for Aries Solar Termoeléctrica, the developer of two 50MW solar thermal plants in Spain.
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19 April 2011
German developer Solar Millennium has passed a critical milestone in securing financing for its 1GW solar thermal project in the Californian city of Blythe.
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14 April 2011
German solar thermal specialist Solar Millennium and Spanish construction group Obrascón Huarte Lain (OHL) have acquired the 50MW Arenales solar thermal plant from Fotowatio.
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12 April 2011
BrightSource Energy has finalised $1.6bn in loans, guaranteed by the US Department of Energy, to finance construction of the world’s largest solar thermal power plant.
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31 March 2011
Power giant Alstom has invested an additional $75m in California, US-based project developer BrightSource Energy.
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22 March 2011
A new supply tie-up between Pratt & Whitney power systems subsidiary Turboden and concentrated solar developer Sopogy will see the power systems company’s organic rankine cycle systems used for the first time in a commercial solar thermal project.
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3 March 2011
German solar thermal project developer Solar Millennium’s net earnings fell by €40.6m in 2010 as it sought to build one of the largest solar plants the world has seen.
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7 February 2011
US solar developer SolarReserve has secured final environmental approvals from the Arizona Corporation Commission for the planned 150MW Crossroads solar thermal project.
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7 February 2011
Traditional energy company EGPI Firecreek has finalised its acquisition of Arctic Solar Engineering (ASE), an integrator of solar thermal energy technology.
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1 February 2011
Power major Siemens is to build a solar thermal power testing facility in Portugal with German partners as part of a project that looks to enhance the economics of parabolic trough plants.
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11 January 2011
Siemens Energy has secured a follow-on order to supply a set of control systems, steam turbines and generators for BrightSource Energy’s Invanpah solar thermal plant in California’s Mojave Desert.
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4 January 2011
Germany-based Solar Millennium Group will provide the parabolic trough collector design for two solar thermal power plants in southern Spain.
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4 January 2011
Solar Millennium subsidiary Flagsol has launched a hybrid solar thermal project 100km south of Cairo, Egypt that is expected to provide a foundation for future investment into similar projects in the region.
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30 December 2010
K Road Sun has acquired the Calico Solar Project near Barstow, California from Tessera Solar North America after a power purchase agreement with Southern California Edison (SCE) fell through.
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16 December 2010
Solar Millennium, the developer behind the world’s largest solar thermal project at Blythe in California, anticipates that the construction of the project combined with its newly-approved Palen solar thermal project, will provide a ‘significant economical impulse’ for southwest US states.
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24 November 2010
Solar Trust of America has announced that its subsidiary, Solar Millennium, has received a draft term sheet for a loan guarantee from the US Department of Energy (DOE) for the Blythe solar thermal power project in California.
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11 November 2010
The government of Canadian province, Alberta, is set to invest $3m in a pilot solar thermal energy project in Medicine Hat that will demonstrate using solar energy to drive a steam engine, rather than fossil fuels.
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3 November 2010
French energy major Areva is reportedly planning to invest $3bn in India’s solar thermal power generation.
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16 September 2010
South Africa will complete a study into the viability of a 5GW solar energy park by the end of the month, which would be five times larger than any installation being developed in the world if given the go-ahead.
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