Rikki Stancich
Rikki Stancich
Articles
- Spain’s FIT moratorium: CSP sector dealt a blow
CSP Today speaks to IHS Emerging Energy Research’s solar analyst in Spain, Josefin Berg, and Marianne Boust, Associate Director, Europe Renewable Power Generation Advisory, about the longer-term impact of a non-retroactive moratorium on feed-in tariffs on Spain’s solar thermal sector.
09/02/2012 - FG Emvelo, ABB power into South African CSP
Florian Fritsch, managing director of FG Emvelo and Pancho Ndebele, Chairman of SASTELA & CEO of Emvelo, talk about the proposed Emvelo-ABB-Novatec Solar projects, and South Africa’s CSP market potential.
17/02/2012 - SFERA flushes out groundbreaking CSP research
CSP Today speaks to Marie Prouteau, Project Manager of SFERA at PROMES-CNRS, about SFERA’s call for projects deadline extension, and the programme’s progress to date.
24/02/2012 - Ventizz: Concentrated solar power poised for PV-style growth
Dr. Helmut Vorndran, Ventizz Capital Partners’ General Partner, comments on the private equity fund’s recent investment into Rioglass, and on the concentrated solar power sector’s burgeoning investment potential.
01/03/2012 - CSPA sheds light on thermal storage advantages
Frank (Tex) Wilkins, Executive Director of the new US Concentrated Solar Power Alliance, on how concentrated solar power provides a base load alternative to fossil fuels.
13/03/2012 - India: FAST forward to 10,000MW
Anil Lakhina, chairman of India’s think tank, Forum for Advancement of Solar Thermal (FAST), carves out a strategy for deploying 10,000MW of solar under India’s 12th Five-Year Plan.
19/03/2012 - Weekly Intelligence Brief: March 12 -19
This week’s CSP Today news brief includes Novatec Solar, ABB, Solar Millennium; Corporate Ispat Alloys, Shriram EPC, Siemens Energy; Solar Energy Industries Association, GTM Research, US Department of Energy; Fotowatio Renewable Ventures, Denham Capital, Qualitas Equity Partners.
19/03/2012 - Ibereólica chases Chile’s perfect DNI
Jose Manuel Ramos, General Manager, Grupo Ibereólica on the renewable energy developer’s venture into Chile’s Atacama Desert.
29/03/2012 - Weekly Intelligence Brief: March 26 – April 2
This week’s CSP Today news brief includes SolarReserve, Saguache County, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne; Shams Power Company, Masdar, Total, Abengoa; Masdar, Mubadala Development Company; Solar Millennium, Solar Trust of America, Solarhybrid; Heritage Global Partners, Stirling Energy Systems.
02/04/2012 - Aluminum: supporting solar in a clean energy era?
When it comes to CSP support structures, aluminum not only beats steel on boosting solar collector optical efficiency, it is a more economic alternative according to new research. But as a major energy consumer and mega GHG emitter, do aluminum’s material benefits outweigh its environmental cost?
06/04/2012