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Abengoa Solar/Solucar

(formerly Industrial Solar Technology)

"Investors and utilities intent on building solar power plants are increasingly turning to solar thermal power, a comparatively low-tech alternative to photovoltaic panels that convert sunlight directly into electricity. This month, in the latest in a string of recent deals, Spanish solar-plant developer Abengoa Solar and Phoenix-based utility Arizona Public Service announced a 280-megawatt solar thermal project in Arizona."

Acciona

(formerly Solargenix)

"While great strides are being made in some areas of electrical power generation, in other areas the concept of modern technology simply doesn't exist.  Solargenix, one of the world leaders in developing solar generating plants, is building a 64-megawat solar generating plant near Boulder City in southern Nevada while Nevada Power is contemplating a large coal fired plant near Ely in eastern Nevada.  The one does not compliment the other in the world of power generation."

2008-03-13

2007-12-20

2007-11-05

"Solar-thermal company Ausra believes that soon they will be able to provide enough power for 90 percent of the homes in the U.S. along with an entire fleet of electric cars using their Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector technology. Wouldn't that be nice!"

2008-06-13

2008-04-02

2007-09-12

"BrightSource Energy, Inc. and subsidiary Luz II, Ltd., developers of large-scale solar thermal power plants, dedicated their Solar Energy Development Center (SEDC) in the Negev’s Rotem Industrial Park, Israel. The Center is an operational solar field that will provide the company with the ability to test equipment, materials and procedures as well as construction and operating methods."

"The take over of Panergia is fostering concentrating solar power (CSP) development in Spain: The first co-developed CSP project with an output of 50 MW is in an advanced planning stage."

"Israeli-Spanish thermo-solar power station developer Ener-T Global Ltd. and Spanish renewable energy company Grupo Enhol will jointly build two 50-megawatt thermo-solar power stations in Spain for about $809.3 million based on Ener-T's parabolic troughs, Globes Online reported."

"Ener-T said that it and Enhol would initially build the power stations in the Extremadura province in southwest Spain. Spanish contractors will build the power station, which is expected to take 18 months after the licenses are obtained. Ener-T predicts that the power station will come on line in 2009, after which construction of the second power station will begin."

"Mountain View, Calif.-based Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) has followed through with its promise to invest in renewable energy, closing a deal to put $10 million into eSolar, a Pasadena, Calif., developer of solar thermal technology."

"The Huiyin group was founded by Mr.Ven, a Belgian engineer. The company designs and produces hight quality-low cost OEM products for the overseas markets. The main activities are in solar thermal, heating and cooling equipments. Several large European brands are amongst our customers. We can be a simple supplier or a Joint Venture partner."

"In China over 15 Million square meter of vacuum tube collectors are installed annually. Our company is a major player on the solar market. During the last 20years we have introduced and patented many new techniques,designs and production metrods that have helped to shape the solar thermal market."

"The first pilot project incorporating the 0 series solar field components from the planned NOVATEC BioSol's planned production plant was launched near Lorca in southern Spain. The pilot plant also doubled as test of quality for the projected production plant. The mirrors' optical precision went well beyond our own expectations."

"Sandia and Stirling Energy Systems (SES) set a new world record for solar-to-grid conversion efficiency of 31.25%. The old record, which has stood since 1984, was 29.4%."

"The record-breaking “Serial #3” solar dish Stirling system at Sandia’s National Solar Thermal Test Facility (STTF) was erected in May 2005 as part of a prototype six-dish model power plant at the STTF that produces up to 150 kilowatts (kW) of grid-ready electrical power during the day. Each dish unit consists of 82 mirrors formed in a dish shape to focus the light to an intense beam."

Schott AG

2008-06-16

2007-03-12

"During the Intersolar exhibition held last week in Munich, Germany, SCHOTT Solar announced plans to accelerate the capacity targets of its parabolic trough technology (Concentrated Solar Power) by the end of 2009 to approximately 1GW, and also announced a target of 1GW of annual capacity for PV production by 2012."

"The project was motivated by the Australian Government's Mandatory Renewable Energy Target (MRET) scheme, which requires power stations to produce 2% of their power from renewable sources. Macquarie Generation has chosen to use the CLFR technology and will produce solar-heated steam for addition to their power station at the boiler inlet stage, thereby replacing the need for the final feedwater heater.

If all prototyping goes well, the Liddell CLFR system will provide 95 MW of thermal energy to the power plant, giving an estimated electrical equivalent of 35 MWe."

"For a sense of scale, consider that the 50-megawatt plants that Germany's Solar Millennium is building in Spain near Granada will employ 28,500 tons of molten salt in twin tanks standing 14 meters high and 38.5 meters in diameter."

"SolarReserve, in contrast, is developing systems that directly heat molten salt. Its designs call for so-called power towers in which arrays of mirrors focus sunlight onto elevated towers. The company, launched in January, is a joint venture between energy investment bank U.S. Renewables Group and aerospace firm Hamilton Sundstrand, whose subsidiary Rocketdyne built molten-salt heat receivers for a 10-megawatt power-tower demo plant that operated in the early 1990s."

"No survey of utility scale solar thermal power companies is complete without mention of Solel Solar Systems Ltd., headquartered in Israel with operations in Spain and the USA.  In December 2007 Solel’s purchase power agreement (PPA) with Pacific Gas & Electric Co. was approved by California’s Public Utility Commission for a solar thermal plant with 553 megawatts of output."

"In 2006, Solel supplied Spain’s Sacyr-Vallehermoso with solar receiver systems to build a 150 megawatt solar thermal plant. 

Last month, Solel signed an agreement to supply Spain’s Aries Solar Termoelectrica, S.L. , with systems for a 100 megawatt solar thermal plant."

Solitem

(Supplier)

"SOLITEM GmbH is a young company and yet a world leader in innovative energy and environmental engineering. Our spheres of competence comprise energy, heat and process engineering, with the main emphasis on solar energy conversion. Decentralised concepts, combined heating and power generation with gas motors and micro turbines as well as the intensive use of solar energy are the key elements of SOLITEM's innovative solutions of supply tasks."

"SkyFuel Inc., a solar startup, will receive a $435,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to continue developing concentrating solar power (CSP) technology."

"The DOE funds will help SkyFuel develop a second CSP design, called the Linear Power Tower. That design includes an alternative geometric shape for parabolas to improve efficiency, and it uses molten salt to store thermal heat, said Randy Gee, SkyFuel's chief technology officer, in a news release."

"Spanish renewable energy firm Sener and Abu Dhabi's clean-energy initiative, Masdar, announced a joint venture on Wednesday to build several power plants fueled by the sun's heat.

The newly created firm, Torresol Energy, said it plans to build at least two large concentrating solar power plants a year with a goal of generating 320 megawatts over the next 5 years and 1,000 megawatts in 10 years. A large coal-fired power plant typically can produce hundreds of megawatts of electricity."