Azelio, Masdar and Khalifa University of Science and Technology will test a thermal energy storage solution for renewable energy projects

The systems will automatically manage the transportation of heat to molten salt tanks for storage and control how power is fed into the grid

It has a total capacity of 50MW plant – equivalent to the electricity produced by 60,000 tonnes of coal a year

The projects aim to lower the cost of solar power and support a growing workforce

The site features a combination of advanced solar energy-producing technologies, a water desalination process and a cooling unit

The 700MW project is part of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, claimed to be the biggest of its kind in the world

A proposed concentrated solar power (CSP) plant near Dubai is expected to save 2.4 million tonnes of greenhouse gases each year. The 700MW Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park, to be developed by ACWA Power, will be spread over the equivalent area of more than 4,500 football fields. It will be mostly made up of […]

A proposed concentrated solar power (CSP) facility in Tunisia could export large amounts of energy to Europe. If the project is approved by the North African country’s government, energy company TuNur could start building the facility in the Rjim Maatoug region. The facility would use thousands of mirrors to focus concentrated solar energy onto a […]

A solar power project in South Africa is getting a major boost as the EU bank is providing funding worth R1.4 billion (£77m). The 100MW Ka Xu Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plant, located in the Northern Cape, will have an integrated storage system which can store excess energy during off-peak hours and dispatch it when […]

Six new research and development projects that will help advance concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies have been given $10 million (£5.9m) in total by the US Government. CSP technologies use mirrors to focus and concentrate sunlight onto a single point where it is used to heat up a liquid, produce steam and turn turbines to […]