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Technology: Fresnel

EU awards €10 M to the ‘Scientific And Technological Alliance in CSP’ led by Spain’s PSA
The ‘Scientific and Technological Alliance for Guaranteeing the European Excellence in Concentrating Solar Thermal Energy’ (STAGE-STE) project, led...
30 April 2013
US DOE to boost thermochemical energy storage with $20 M for new research projects
US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a new funding opportunity (FOA). The “Efficiently Leveraging Equilibrium Mechanisms for Engineering New...
28 April 2013
Chile launches tender for CSP plant
Chile's government has just launched a tender to build what could be the first CSP plant -for electricity generation- in the country. Companies,...
28 February 2013
Chevron plans to build a concentrated solar field to produce steam for its Kapolei Oil Refinery in Hawaii. The solar field will be installed in a 15...
26 February 2013
Australia's ARENA to study conversion to CSP of a coal-fired plant
The Australian Government, through the Australian Renewable Energy Agency’s (ARENA) Emerging Renewables Program, will invest in a feasibility study...
21 February 2013
Solar cooking system at Shirdi
The most widely use of Concentrated Solar Power is to produce electricity, but this is only one option. In fact, electricity is produced after a...
08 February 2013
IRENA Global Atlas of Solar and Wind resources
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has announced at its annual general assembly held on January 13 and 14, the Global Atlas of...
14 January 2013
Areva's CLFR system for CSP plants to be installed in SolarDawn project
The Solar Dawn consortium website displays since today a single page with a short statement: The Solar Dawn Consortium has today confirmed that...
12 November 2012
Alsolen Fresnel pilot plant
France's Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) center at Cadarache, in the south, hosts a small Fresnel pilot plant...
30 October 2012
Novatec Solar Lidell Fresnel solar augmentation plant
Novatec Solar, the German developer of Fresnel type concentrated solar power technology, has announced in a press release the Lidell solar steam...
25 October 2012

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