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November 19, 2017
EU Funding for Solutions to Decarbonise Heating and Cooling Market

A search for ‘solar thermal’ in a recently published 195-page document titled Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy will not return encouraging results (see the attached document). The publication by the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020 shows only 6 entries in total. “Solar thermal is...
September 19, 2017
Italy: 10,000 m² ORC-Connected Fresnel and Parabolic Trough Fields

Italy’s feed-in tariff for medium-size concentrating solar power plants has supported the installation of a 10,000 m² Fresnel collector array in Sardinia (see photo). The mirrors have been in operation since spring this year and are connected to an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) unit with 600...
August 25, 2017
MENA/Chile: Concentrating Solar Benchmark Costs

A tender for 94.5 USD/MWh_el in Dubai and an R&D initiative called SunShot in the United States have shown how the cost of concentrated solar power (CSP...
August 1, 2015
Conference on Small-scale Concentrating Solar Power and and final InSun Workshop on Solar Process Heat in Sardinia

The final Industrial Workshop on solar process heat - Results and findings of the EU FP7 Project InSun will be held together with a conference on small-scale CSP at the Auditorium Technology Park of Sardena Richerche on September 25th, 2015 (9am to 5.30pm) in Pula/Sardinia, Italy. Both the...
June 20, 2015
Water Policy Considerations: Deploying Solar Power in the State of Arizona (2010)

This report on concentrating solar power (CSP) was produced by the United States Senate Office of Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona. The report focuses on the effect of CSP on the supply of water in Arizona. The report finds that conventional CSP production would be back overall for...
June 15, 2015
A Parabolic Trough Solar Power Plant Simulation Model (2003)

This report was released by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in 2003. It provides an overview of the Parabolic Trough model with details regarding performance, cost and economic assessment of design and technology variations. They compare modeled parabolic...
June 15, 2015
Key Suppliers in Solar Thermal Power Value Chain and Venture Capital Companies (2009)

This document was released by Clixoo Renewable Energy Research in 2009. It starts with a background on solar thermal and the different applications of solar thermal energy. It also explains a solar thermal value chain, which breaks down the process of producing solar thermal...
May 31, 2015
Solar Thermal Technology (2005)

This presentation is from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) OpenCourseWare program on Sustainable Energy. It provides an overview of solar thermal technology including power towers, solar thermal cooling and storage technologies. Different concentrating solar...
January 30, 2015
Denmark: Combined CSP and Flat Plate Collector System Supplies Solar District Heating

7 January 2015 was the starting date for the construction of a unique solar heat plant for district heating in the Danish village of Tårs, 30 km north of Aalborg. It combines parabolic trough collectors and flat plate collectors in order to cover 30 % of the heat demand by the...
October 31, 2014
Solar Thermal and Concentrated Solar Power Barometer (2014)

This report published by the French organization EurObserv’ER provides an overview of the Solar Thermal and Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) markets in Europe in 2013. The first section of the report is dedicated to CSP. After analyzing the global and European markets, the barometer...
April 19, 2013
India: Rising Diesel Prices Boost Attractiveness of Solar Thermal

India’s government announced at the beginning of this year that it would gradually increase the price of diesel by INR 1 each month for the following 10 months. The government is aiming to bring retail prices in India on a par with international crude prices, in order to reduce the...
September 10, 2012
Solar Energy for Heating and Electricity - the Potential for Mitigating Climate Change (2009)

This report - prepared for Imperial College London by Dr. N.J. Ekins-Dauke - evaluates solar water heating and concentrated solar power market development from an international and British perspective. Based on the conclusions of other studies, it estimates that solar water heating ocould...