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Executive Viewpoint

India: No place for CSP?
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CSP Today speaks to Banmali Agrawala, executive director, strategy & business development at Tata Power, to find out why India’s largest private utility is turning its back on concentrated solar power.

29 Jul 2010

PPG: Progress on second surface glass mirror
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CSP Today catches up with Scott Follett, Global Director, PPG Solar, and Dr Jim McCamy, Manager, PPG Solar Technologies to learn more about PPG’s progress and how its work will benefit the CSP industry.

23 Jul 2010

Breakthrough technology: DSG for parabolic troughs
Oğuz Çapan, CEO of Hittite Solar Enerji

CSP Today speaks to Oğuz Çapan, CEO of Hittite Solar Enerji about advances in applying direct steam generation to parabolic troughs and why Turkey is a market that should not be ignored.

15 Jul 2010

BZE’s ‘Easy Way’: Renewable Energy for the price of lunch
Australian's could enjoy 100% renewable power for AU$8.00 per week

Matthew Wright, executive director of Australian non-profit organisation Beyond Zero Emissions, walks CSP Today through the world’s first step-by-step plan to an affordable, 100% renewable energy-powered nation.

09 Jul 2010

Strategy: Next move for BrightSource Down Under
Andrew Dyer, Director, BrightSource Energy Australia

CSP Today catches up with Andrew Dyer, a director of BrightSource Energy Australia, to find out what the company’s next move will be, having fallen shy of the country’s Solar Flagship’s Round 1 shortlist.

01 Jul 2010

Off the charts: The HELSOLAR graphite storage solution
Graphite's weakly-bonded parallel sheets of hexagonal rings make for a good conductor.

While Sener is holding the details of its next generation thermal storage system close to its chest, Sierra Mercedes, vice president at SENER’s San Francisco office, talks CSP Today through the medium that promises to be the lynchpin of HELSOLAR’s heat storage advantage.

25 Jun 2010

Steam-free CSP: Dry technology for thirsty locations
Mock-up of CSIRO's 200kw Brayton Cycle project due to come online March, 2011.

CSP Today speaks to James McGregor, energy system manager at CSIRO, about a groundbreaking CSP demonstration project that has a zero water requirement.

17 Jun 2010

Australia: Kicking the fossil fuel habit?
Can CSP triumph over coal?

CSP Today speaks to Dennis Orwig, Chief Executive Officer, Novatec BioSol AG, about whether Australia's controversial Solar Flagships scheme will deliver.

11 Jun 2010

On-stream: Lessons from the Solúcar platform
Solnova 1 & 3 came on-line in May

CSP Today speaks to Valerio Fernández Quero, director of operations and maintenance at Abengoa Solar, about new technologies applied and lessons learned from its Solnova 1 & 3 projects in Spain.

04 Jun 2010

BrightSource Energy: Ivanpah project powers ahead
BrightSource Energy Inc.'s Ivanpah project is scheduled to begin construction later this year

CSP Today speaks to Keely Wachs, senior director of corporate communications for BrightSource Energy, to gain insight into progress on the 392MW Ivanpah solar tower project.

27 May 2010