Solar Power World

Gold Rush for CSP in South Africa

With the first 200 MW of Concentrated Solar Thermal Power allocated as part of South Africa’s IPP programme, the question at the forefront of the industry is does this represent a market changer or a one off opportunity? CSP Today reports the Ministry of Energy in South Africa officially launched the Independent Power Producers (IPP) Procurement Programme earlier this month. This now replaces the previously debated REFIT programm, in which bidders would be asked to bid for... Read More

Report shows concentrated solar market growth for the new year

The past year has seen the concentrated solar power industry move forward with its first wave of global project construction after years of early-stage ambition. Scaling activity in the southwestern U.S. along with multiple project commissions in Spain have afforded CSP players the opportunity to push beyond the industry’s two pillar markets and toward global development, which in turn has attracted a series of investments from large-scale energy conglomerates and financiers. Still,... Read More

World’s largest concentrated solar plant gets a green light

Solar Trust of America announced that its project development subsidiary, Solar Millennium LLC, has received a proposed decision from the California Energy Commission (CEC) granting the license to build and operate its Blythe Solar Power Project in Riverside County, which would be the largest Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) facility in the world. The recommendation marks an important milestone in the company’s efforts to obtain final approval to build the four 242-megawatt... Read More