Rikki Stancich
Rikki Stancich
Articles
- Paths to a leaner CSP Balance of Plant
More investment will be needed to make the leap to the next level of BoP cost efficiency.
29/09/2009 - Solar Renewable Energy Credits: The lynchpin for CSP investment
CSP Today speaks to Christopher Johnston, head of forwards markets, SRECTrade, about whether the burgeoning Solar Renewable Energy Credits market linked to several North Eastern US states' RPS could catch on in the southwest, creating much-needed financial incentive to get CSP off the ground.
21/05/2010 - Weekly Intelligence Brief: May 24 - May 31
This week's CSP Today news brief includes: Abengoa Solar; NREL study; Flagsol, MAN Solar Millennium; Novatec BioSol; and Abengoa's Solnova 3 comes online.
31/05/2010 - Australia plays it safe with solar funding
Federal government money favours established technologies that largely focus on hybridisation of existing fossil fuel power plants - hardly sufficient to kickstart Australia's solar future.
03/06/2010 - Weekly Intelligence Brief: May 31 - June 07
This week’s CSP Today news brief includes: SkyFuel; Solar Millennium; GrafTech & Sener; Novatec Biosol & Schott; Solar Trust of America; EPRI & SolarTAC; Abengoa; and Acciona.
03/06/2010 - On-stream: Lessons from the Solúcar platform
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.
04/06/2010 - Europe: Time to stem the solar subsidies?
Europe’s feed-in tariffs have come under scrutiny recently as both Germany and Spain have been forced to reassess their pricing models. Is it time to reel in the subsidies?
04/06/2010 - South Africa: CSP gains ground
Following the World Bank’s approval of a US$3.75 billion loan to Eskom, South Africa’s national electricity utility, CSP Today tracks developments in South Africa’s efforts to enter the CSP market.
10/06/2010 - Direct steam generation: Full steam ahead for grid parity
In the first of a two part series, CSP Today investigates how a combination of direct stream generation and phase change material thermal energy storage could propel concentrated solar power into mainstream energy supply.
11/06/2010 - Australia: Kicking the fossil fuel habit?
CSP Today speaks to Dennis Orwig, Chief Executive Officer, Novatec BioSol AG, about whether Australia's controversial Solar Flagships scheme will deliver.
11/06/2010