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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

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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CSP Today

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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CSP Today

26 Aug 2008

SHEC Labs develops new solar thermal technology

Solar Hydrogen Energy Corporation (SHEC) Labs has developed a solar concentrator and complementary solar receiver technology that is able to concentrate sunlight to a very high level.

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CSP Today

13 Aug 2008

SENER foresees availability of new large CSP capacity in the US

Interview with José C Martín, CEO, SENER Engineering and Systems, Inc.

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12 Aug 2008

Interview with Patrick Burtis, Amadeus Capital Partners Limited

"VC often gets lumped in with private equity and that can be misleading"

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07 Aug 2008

Interview with Bob Stuart, Senior Director – Transmission, BrightSource Energy

Understanding the limitations of existing bulk Transmission System in the US

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05 Aug 2008

Web entrepreneur back in news for his solar power projects

A dotcom entrepreneur, who had a tryst with the solar energy at the age of 15, is back in news for his solar power projects including one in solar thermal power at the age of 49.

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CSP Today

04 Aug 2008

Davidson County intent on solar-energy farm

Davidson County , North Carolina, anticipate a 21.5 megawatt solar farm after a new utilities law has given the go ahead.

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Journal Now

26 Jun 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

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CSP Project Development Conference & Expo US

October 25-26, 2010 - Denver, United States

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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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