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Technology: Parabolic trough

HITECO Workshop
The HITECO Project presented its preliminary results at the "Efficiency Increase and Cost Reduction in CSP Technologies" summit held last June in...
26 July 2012
Siemens Robicon Perfect Harmony Drives
Siemens has begun shipping drives to Abengoa's Solana CSP plant after a multi-million contract was signed between both companies. Siemens will...
19 July 2012
BrightSource plant render
BrightSource is now the owner of the 500 MW Palen project, a proposed parabolic trough concentrated solar power plant in development stage promoted...
28 June 2012
Wind loads simulation - Abengoa
Abengoa is developing a computer simulation app to asses wind loads on parabolic troughs structures which will enable a better design of these...
27 June 2012
The Government of the Brazilian state of Pernambuco has announced the agreement between Sectec (Science and Technology Secretariat), Finep/MCT (...
24 June 2012
SkyFuel's SkyTrough collector at SEGS-II in Dagget
SkyFuel has annpunced in a press release it plans to enter the CSP Saudi market. The Colorado based company is seeking for local partners to...
21 June 2012
Rendering picture of proposed Khi Solar One plant - Abengoa
International Finance Corporation, a World Bank Group organization, has approved two loans for two different projects led by Abengoa in India and...
15 June 2012
Assembling facility of SENERtrough collector
The Spanish CSP engineering company SENER, has been selected by Lanco for engineering supervision and consulting for the Diwakar and KVK CSP plants...
12 June 2012
Trough Sun Photo Sandia Labs
The Bokpoort Concentrated Solar Power plant, recently awarded to Solafrica by the Department of Energy of South Africa (DOE), will help South Africa...
11 June 2012
FCC Chairman with Regional Government President
Enerstar Villena, a wholly subsidiary of Spanish FCC Energia, held today the groundbreaking ceremony for its 50 MW CSP plant being built in Villena,...
23 May 2012

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