News - Spain

		Eduardo Fernandez Camacho receives research prize for concentrating solar power work
		2012/04/11 Camacho received the award for his applied research on the increase in performance of concentrating solar-thermal power plants through predictive control.

		AKO has been awarded in a tender of the Consol-Orellana Concentrated Solar Power Plant
		2012/04/07 AKO has been awarded the supply and installation of its AKO, TRACE® turnkey solution for the Consol-Orellana Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Plant, which is planned to be started in March 2012.

		Concentrated solar power in Spain: Renewable Energies, Employment and Development
		2012/04/04 Attributing the power tariff deficit to concentrating solar thermal energy is simply erroneous; attempting to avoid future deficit by putting a stop to this activity, a grievous mistake.

		SENER, nominated for the European Business Awards for the Gemasolar CSP project
		2012/03/31 In renewable energy, SENER is a leader in the global market for concentrating solar thermal energy, both for the development of state-of-the-art technology and for the number of pipeline solar energy projects.

		Concentrated solar power plant in Spain works at night
		2012/03/29 A unique concentrating solar thermal power plant in southern Spain can shrug off cloudy days: solar energy stored when the sun shines lets it produce electricity even during the night.

		SENER wins the Award for its Gemasolar Concentrating Solar Power project
		2012/03/23 SENER was selected as one of the winning companies for the European Business Award for the Environment/Spanish Division for its Gemasolar concentrated solar thermal project.

		Abengoa and JGC bring the second CSP plant at the El Carpio Solar Complex
		2012/03/16 With this concentrated solar thermal power plant entering coming online, Abengoa reaches 543 MW of solar thermal in operation.

		ESTELA calls on Spain to continue support for renewable energies
		2012/02/28 We hope this period of halt on supports to renewable energies will be short and encourage to the Government to regulate as soon as possible the new deployment of CSP plants in Spain until 2020.

		Concentrated Solar Power Industry in Spain and Tariff Deficit
		2012/02/23 Protermosolar, the Spanish association of concentrating solar thermal power industry, has proposed to the CNE eleven actions whose implementation will make up a reduction of 17,300 million euros of tariff deficit.

		Aora ‘tulip’ sprouting concentrating solar energy in Spain
		2012/02/15 AORA Solar, an Israeli developer of applied ultra-high-temperature concentrated solar power (CSP), launched its second-ever gas-turbine solar thermal power.

		Abengoa and JGC's concentrating thermal solar power plant, Solacor 1, comes online
		2012/02/08 The concentrated solar power plant will produce the solar energy equivalent of that needed to power approximately 26,000 homes.

		Spain's conservative government decreed a moratorium on renewable energy
		2012/02/05 Spain's MITyC announced that it has temporarily closed the nation's feed-in tariff (FiT) program, including FiTs for wind energy, photovoltaic (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP) generation, to new applicants.

		Aora eyes concentrated solar power plant in Spain
		2012/02/04 Israeli solar energy company commissions second hybrid concentrating solar thermal power plant, this time in southern Spain. Facility will have capacity to produce 100 kW.

		First concentrated solar power plant in the world of variable geometry
		2012/02/01 At the end of 2011, Spain had 26 operational concentrating solar thermal power plants with a total installed capacity of 1,100 MW.

		What’s in store for Concentrating Solar Power in 2012?
		2012/01/25 The flurry of activity seen in the last 6 months demonstrates that Concentrated Solar Thermal Power is a young but rapidly-evolving industry. In the second half of 2011 several solar energy plants were connected.

		UAE-Spain concentrated solar power JV plans $5bn spend
		2012/01/24 Torresol Energy, a JV between Spain's Sener and Abu Dhabi's Masdar, plans to invest up to $5bn in the short-term to build concentrating solar thermal power plants (CSP) in Spain, the US and the Middle East.

		Lebrija concentrating solar thermal power plant feeds power to the grid
		2012/01/23 Siemens and Valoriza achieve crucial milestone in solar energy: Lebrija concentrated solar power plant feeds power to the grid.

		Torresol Energy Launches Twin Concentrating Solar Thermal Power Plants in Spain
		2012/01/22 The Gemasolar Concentrated Solar Power facility represented a significant breakthrough in the global solar industry and an important new field of cooperation between Spain and the UAE.

		AORA to open concentrating solar thermal power plant in Spain
		2012/01/17 AORA Solar, an Israeli developer of applied ultra-high temperature concentrated solar power (CSP), will be opening its second-ever gas-turbine solar thermal power station in Almeria, Spain, on February 7.

		Andasol, the World’s Largest Concentrated Solar Power Plant
		2012/01/16 Over at The Independent, Alasdair Fotheringham has written a lovely article on Andasol, the world’s largest concentrating solar thermal power plant.