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ESTELA – Appoints New Managing Director
Brussels, 01 May 2013. ESTELA, the European Solar Thermal Electricity Association, has appointed Marcel Bial as its new Managing Director. As former head of System Development at the European Network of Transmission System...[more]
Farewell Message from Secretary General of ESTELA
Farewell Message from Secretary General of ESTELA Ms. Mariàngels Pérez Latorre prepares to depart as Secretary General after six years of managing the Secretariat in Brussels and takes this opportunity to bid farewell to...[more]
Protermosolar: The Concentrating Solar Power employed 18,000 people in 2012 in Spain, 40% less
28/03/2013 Protermosolar: The figure has been reduced by 40% in just one year by the effect of the moratorium on renewable energy. The Spanish concentrated solar power industry employed a total of 17,816 people in 2012, a...[more]
ULTIMATE TROUGH® – THE WORLD’S LARGEST PARABOLIC TROUGH COLLECTOR IS IN OPERATION
Download Press Release Stuttgart, March 25th, 2013 A first Ultimate Trough (UT) collector demonstration loop was successfully integrated in an existing solar power plant in California and is now put into operation. Its huge...[more]
CTAER sets up an innovative solar installation for parabolic trough testing.
The Advanced Technology Centre for Renewable Energies (CTAER) has signed a contract with IDOM engineering to start work on the construction of the “Variable Geometry testing facility for the Evaluation and Characterization of...[more]
Abengoa and BrightSource Energy partner to build the world’s two largest solar power towers
Two of the world’s leading concentrating solar power (CSP) companies join to build the 500 megawatt (MW) Palen solar complex. Download Press Release Seville, Spain, March 15, 2013.- Abengoa (MCE: ABG.B), the international...[more]
SOLAR-ERA.NET Transnational Calls CSP1
SOLAR-ERA.NET is a FP7 funded European network of national and regional research and technology development (RTD) and innovation programmes in the field of solar electricity generation. Guidelines for Proposers More...[more]