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Protermosolar
Spain is the country that showed in the last years the strongest support to concentrated solar power deployment, but those days are gone, the new...
17 July 2012
ESTELA Summer Workshop
ESTELA, the European Solar Thermal Electricity Association, held its Summer Workshop 2012 last June in Brussels just after its General Meeting....
16 July 2012
Angel Vadillo is the mayor of a Spanish little village named Alburquerque (please note the 'r' which makes it different from the New Mexico city). He...
12 July 2012
Parabolic trough at PSA
Sweden's Chalmers University has issued a press release where it says "a recently published study confirms that solar thermal power is largely...
12 July 2012
New tax to CSP in Spain
Spanish Government has announced new taxes and regulation for the energy sector within the framework of new austerity measures. The electric sector...
12 July 2012
German's Ferrostaal has bought the 74.9 percent stake that bankrupt's Solar Millenium still kept in the CSP joint venture Flagsol. "Flagsol GmbH is a...
09 July 2012
The Spanish grid has reached 1,581 MW of installed concentrated solar power as of June this year with some new plants recently commissioned,...
27 June 2012
Solugas - Abengoa
Abengoa has just completed the construction of its latest demonstration facility, SOLUGAS, an hybrid solar-gas demonstration power tower lacated at...
27 June 2012
Wind loads simulation - Abengoa
Abengoa is developing a computer simulation app to asses wind loads on parabolic troughs structures which will enable a better design of these...
27 June 2012
Valeriano Ruiz, Chairman of the Spanish Association of CSP Industry (Protermosolar) has resigned from his position, says a PR issued by Protermosolar...
15 June 2012

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