LONDON: Solar will be the cheapest form of electricity in many regions of the world in the next 10 years, a new report states. The Current and Future Cost of Photovoltaics by the institute Fraunhofer ISE on behalf of Agora Energiewende forecasts how falling prices of solar photovoltaics will affect the future of the low […]
Read More >This article is the first in the series Panel of experts, a space in which two specialists expose your opinion on a topic proposed by CSP Today. On this occasion, Juan Barragán (NEST AS) and Mark Schmitz (TSK Flagsol Engineering GmbH) debate the following: Heatcrete or molten salts? Heatcrete - Juan Barragan, [...]
Read More >Abengoa, which has built the plant and is in charge of its operation and maintenance, has 51% of the project. Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), one of South Africa's largest financial development institutions, owns 29% and Khi Community Trust controls the remaining 20%. Abengoa has put into operation […]
Read More >Southern Research projects put into service in October of 2017 a demonstration of 1 MWh (th) energy storage plant using thermochemical high temperature technology, following a recent injection of funds from the Department of energy of the United States. The promoter based in Alabama was one of the 14 research groups [...]
Read More >The solar thermal energy has increased its production of electricity by 2015 to reach an output 5.113 GWh in the year cumulative. This figure, at 89 GWh higher than registration of 2014, enables solar thermal energy to consolidate its share of contribution to the coverage of electricity demand in Spain (in lathe [...]
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