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India’s Reliance Power, part of the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG), has indicated about its plans to set up a 100-mw solar power plant.
Anil Ambani, chairman, Reliance Power, said the company is exploring emerging opportunities across alternative environment-friendly technologies such as wind, solar and fuel cell-based power generation.
Indian business conglomerate to explore opportunities in solar power
The Department of Energy is sending more money to solar projects. The department announced another $67 million for solar research and development recently. In accordance with the federal government’s usual tendencies regarding solar power, the money will go to researching and developing new storage techniques for Concentrated Solar Power (CSP). CSP solar systems concentrate and absorb heat from the sun to produce electricity.
Traditionally, the biggest obstacle to affordable, large-scale solar power has been storage: how to store the energy collected for use during the night and other non-peak hours. Recent innovations have turned solar heat collection and storage a viable option, and the DOE is jumping on the bandwagon. These monies will go to a handful of universities and companies to facilitate the advancement of CSP technology. (more…)
The Solar Thermal Group at the Australian National University (ANU) has been working for over two decades on a system for dissociating ammonia with concentrated solar energy so that the products can be stored and recycled through a conventional ammonia synthesis converter to achieve 24-hour power production.
Understanding the potential of ammonia-based thermochemical energy storage
Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 28, 2008: SkyFuel, Inc., the emerging leader in the rapidly growing concentrating solar-thermal electric power industry, continues to build up its already impressive technology team.
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has shared that the industry is already witnessing losses and has emphasised on the significance of tax credit extension.
The Association says there are losses every day in the wake of the credits being on hold.
Alternate Energy Technologies (AET) has set up a new division, AE Design, to assist with the design and installation of commercial solar thermal applications.
As per the information available, the new division will be led by Jeremy Mills.
eSolar has appointed Craig Tyner, Ph.D., as senior vice president of engineering.
Tyner joins eSolar’s executive team following the company’s deal with Southern California Edison. The company is to build a total of 245 MW of concentrating solar plants in the Antelope Valley region of Southern California. The series of fully operational plants will begin production in 2011.
CSP and CPV Investment & Finance Summit Special
“One thing investors want above all from their policy-makers is policy certainty”.
This statement recently came from Amadeus Capital Partners Limited’s Patrick Burtis during an interview, conducted in the context of CSP and CPV Investment & Finance Summit, scheduled to take place on 8-9 October in Madrid.
Industry seeks uniformity and certainty in policies pertaining to CSP and CPV
MAN Ferrostaal Inc., the US subsidiary of German company MAN Ferrostaal AG, may go for the construction related to its solar thermal power business in Cleveland.
The development has emerged as the company has moved its US headquarters to Cleveland.
MAN Ferrostaal gets attracted to Cleveland’s manufacturing culture
Organisers announced today that well over 300 attendees have already signed up for the 2nd CSP Summit taking place on September 30 – October 1 at the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco, and spaces are fast filling up.
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