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Industry Insight

CSP for industrial applications: A market ripe with promise

Heavy industry can be a viable secondary market today for CSP producers, but questions remain on whether start up costs are justifiable for industrial users, and how reliable CSP can be for processes that can't pace production by the sun.

02 Sep 2010

CSP developer strategy: Clinching the deal with US utilities

CSP Today examines how CSP projects can gain the critical edge over other renewable energy projects vying to sign power purchase agreements with US utilities.

02 Sep 2010

Executive Viewpoint

CSP cooling options: Workarounds for water scarcity

CSP Today speaks to Babul Patel, senior consultant at Nexant Inc., about the cost implication of plant cooling options and how to operate plants effectively under increasingly stringent water restrictions.

27 Aug 2010

International standards for CSP components imminent

CSP Today speaks to Dr Wolfgang Jockel, managing director of TUV Rheinland Energie und Umwelt GmbH about plans to introduce an international standards and certification procedure for CSP components.

19 Aug 2010

A greenhouse-solar power combination

A greenhouse-solar power combination is being planned to potentially provide food, fresh water and energy to deserts.

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08 Sep 2008

ARC Renewables gears up for solar energy initiatives

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01 Sep 2008

Muirhead Engineering makes steel struts for solar thermal generator project

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01 Sep 2008

Solar Millennium targets net profit of €18 million

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01 Sep 2008

Interview with Chris Huntington of SkyFuel

"Delays in ITC are keeping several Gigawatts worth of CSP projects from breaking ground"

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26 Aug 2008

Solutia to get associated with solar thermal power plant in Egypt

Solutia Inc. is to supply a solar thermal power plant in Egypt with Therminol VP-1, a synthetic heat transfer fluid designed to meet the demanding requirements of high temperature systems.

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CSP Today

26 Aug 2008

India to support development of solar thermal energy

India is getting ready for a solar thermal energy project at Nagpur in western state Maharashtra.

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26 Aug 2008

Schott Solar charts map for expansion

Schott Solar GmbH will soon become an Aktiengesellschaft, or stock corporation, and "promptly"' sell shares thereafter, according to a media report.

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26 Aug 2008

Flabeg to produce high-precision parabolic mirrors in the US

Flabeg is to set-up production capacity for high-precision parabolic mirrors, which are used to help generate electricity at large-scale solar power plants.

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26 Aug 2008

FPL plans thermo solar energy plants in Spain

FPL Group Inc. is contemplating development of two 50-megawatt thermo-solar electricity- generating plants in Spain.

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19 Aug 2008

Press Releases

International PV experts gather in San Jose Nov 30 –Dec 1 to discuss how to drive down LCOE and boost MW output through improved

What is the future for utility scale solar? According to recent reports and commitment from utilities in the Southwest and East coast USA, the future is optimistic. SEIA recently announced that utilities’ solar megawatts added to the grid grew from 169 MW in 2008 to 279 in 2009, a growth of 66 percent in a year when electricity demand as a whole declined as the result of an economic downturn.

03 Sep 2010

CSP cooling options: Workarounds for water scarcity

Ahead of the CSP Yield Optimization Conference & Expo in Denver (October 27-28), CSP Today speaks to Babul Patel, senior consultant at Nexant Inc., about the cost implication of plant cooling options and how to operate plants effectively under increasingly stringent water restrictions.

01 Sep 2010

4th International Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Summit EU

November 15-17, 2010 - Seville, Spain

http://www.csptoday.com/eu

Business Intelligence Reports

Concentrated Solar Power Markets 2010 Report

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Conferences & Exhibitions

First Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Summit India

September 7-8, 2010 - New Delhi, India

http://www.csptoday.com/india
CSP Project Development Conference & Expo US

October 25-26, 2010 - Denver, United States

http://www.csptoday.com/projectdevelopment
CSP Yield Optimization Conference & Expo US

October 27-28, 2010 - Denver, United States

http://www.csptoday.com/yieldoptimization
Utility Scale PV Yield Optimization Conference & Expo

November 30 - December 1 2010 - San Jose, United States

http://www.csptoday.com/pvbalanceofsystems

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