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 2013/04/11The 100-megawatt solar thermal power plant, "Shams 1", was officially launched in Abu Dhabi last week. |
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 2013/04/10The last of 14 Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) receiver panels and heat shields have been installed at the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy project. |
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 2013/04/09The 500 megawatt (MW) Palen solar thermal power system will use proven solar thermal tower technology to produce clean, reliable solar electricity to more than 200,000 homes. |
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 2013/04/08Last year was a quiet year for solar thermal startup eSolar, which makes solar plant gear that converts the sun’s heat into electricity (unlike solar panels, which convert sunlight into electricity). |
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2013/04/07 Shams 1 Concentrating Solar Power features a dry-cooling system that significantly reduces water consumption - a critical advantage in the arid desert. |
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 2013/04/06The project aims to build infrastructure for research and development of technologies that produce CSP energy, in the present case for those of the parabolic trough type. |
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 2013/04/05A first Ultimate Trough (UT) collector demonstration loop was successfully integrated in an existing solar power plant in California and is now put into operation. |
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 2013/04/04Solar thermal technology may be better suited to electric utilities than solar photovoltaics. |
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 2013/04/03The New York Times devoted most of the front page of its Sunday Review section to a story promoting the green dream of "Life After Oil and Gas." |
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 2013/04/02The Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) has confirmed that a strategy to utilise renewables is underway, with solar on the agenda. |
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 2013/04/01DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products announces the introduction of Greenway® solar heat transfer fluids manufactured by Climalife and made with Susterra® propanediol. |
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2013/03/31 The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has welcomed the activation of the world’s largest operational Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) facility to date. |
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 2013/03/30The inauguration of Shams 1, a 100 MW solar thermal plant, is a major milestone in the development and deployment of renewable energy in the Middle East. |
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 2013/03/29California will soon be home to the world’s two largest solar towers through an ambitious project known as The Palen Solar Electrical Generating System. |
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 2013/03/28Energía Llaima (Las Condes, Chile) and Sunmark A/S (Svendborg, Denmark) have begun construction of a solar thermal plant to support a mining operation in Northern Chile |
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 2013/03/28Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI), Mitt Romney’s VP candidate, attacked SolarReserve’s 110-megawatt Crescent Dunes solar power tower project. |
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 2013/03/27Attendees of the MENASOL 2013 conference (14-15 May, Dubai) will be given the opportunity to visit the recently commissioned Shams 1 CSP plant on May 16 in Abu Dhabi. |
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 2013/03/26The CSP Today USA Awards ceremony takes place on 26 June in Las Vegas, and CSP developers, EPC groups, suppliers and technology providers can now be nominated. |
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 2013/03/25In association with MENASOL 2013, CSP Today and PV Insider have announced they will host this year’s Women’s Solar Seminar in Dubai. |
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2013/03/24 The Shams 1 project has three main partners - the UAE sustainable technology firm Masdar, the Spanish concentrated solar power company Abengoa Solar, and the French-energy giant Total. |
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