Pampa Elvira Solar

November 6, 2019
Start of SHC/SWC 2019 in Chile

As many as two Chilean government ministers welcomed attendees to the joint SHC 2019 and SWC 2019 conference in the capital of Santiago this week: Energy Minister Juan Carlos Jobet and Science Minister Andrés Couve. While it is rare to see high-ranking officials attend research conferences...
December 1, 2016
Mexico: Second Solar Process Heat Case Study on Copper Mining

Arcon-Sunmark has announced the completion of a second solar-heated copper mine project. In September 2016, the Danish company installed a 6,270 m² collector field (4.4 MW_th) at La Parreña in central Mexico. A 30 September press release said that the solar field would cover 58 %...
November 28, 2016
Chile: Consistent Electrolytic Bath Temperature Control Increases Copper Cathode Quality

Pampa Elvira Solar (PES) operates the largest solar process heat installation worldwide, a 27.5 MWt_h collector field at the Gabriela Mistral mine in Chile. “It´s an every-day, every-hour struggle to harvest the sun and earn our wages, so we may continue the very humble – and much...
November 21, 2016
Solar Process Heat in Chile: “It is essential to use the ESCO model”

The world’s largest process heat installation has recently completed its third year of operation. The 39,000 m² collector field, which went online in October 2013 at Codelco´s Gabriela Mistral mine, is located 100 kilometres south of the town of Calama in Chile´s high central desert....
May 26, 2016
Austria: Award-Winning Energy Service Company Publishes ESCO Model Fact Sheets

Energy Service Companies (ESCO) have become pioneers in the development of financing and operating models for various energy sector customers. Every two years, the so-called Contracting Award highlights exemplary ESCO projects in Germany (“Contracting” is the German word for Energy...
April 1, 2014
Denmark: From Sunmark to Sunmark Solutions

Because of a lack of turnover, Danish collector manufacturer and turnkey solar thermal system supplier Sunmark had to file for bankruptcy on 10 February 2014. “We had had a hard time with the competition during public tenders, but also some difficulties with bad quality products from Danish...
November 13, 2013
Chile: President Inaugurates Solar Field with 27.5 MWth

In the middle of October, Chile´s President Sebastián Piñera inaugurated the currently world´s largest solar thermal field with 27.5 MWth (39,300 m² of collector area). The system supplies...