Tonopah #CSP #solar #energy plant went bankrupt in 02021 and was already obsolete when it went into operation in 02015.
on 02025-11-27A 30MW #solar thermal power plant in Port Augusta, #Australia, by company Vast Renewables, “the first large scale #solar-thermal project in the country”, may get funded, but it apparently needs [AU]$360–390 million? Which would make it AU$12–13/W, which at 64.6¢/AUD would be US$8/W, about twenty times the price of #photovoltaic power plants (and 120× the price of photovoltaic panels). So it’s trying to get grants from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena). #CSP #concentrating solar power
on 02024-11-26"Desertec" was a #solar #energy project to build #CSP plants in the Sahara; it ran from 2009 to 2014 but then was eaten by photovoltaic.
on 02019-02-09Jordan is installing a 5 km² 160MW #photovoltaic #solar plant outside Ma’an; Jordan imports 96% of its #energy as fossil fuels, amounting to 10% of its GDP. China, since 2015 the biggest producer of solar energy, subsidizes PV plants, now producing 3% of its electricity; it’s expected to install 12GW in the first half of 2016. India, the other leading country, is still shooting for just 100GW in 2022; KPMG thinks solar will provide 12.5% of India’s energy by 2025. “Such is the frenzy that officials in sunny Punjab are urging farmers to lease their land to solar developers rather than till it.” Global solar-energy capacity rose by 26% last year. Saudi company Acwa Power won a 200MW contract in Dubai in 2014 at a levelized cost of “less than $60/MWh”; Acwa also built the world’s largest #CSP plant, in Morocco, and bought a 50MW Jordanian plant initially started by Greek company Sunrise. Italian company Enel Green Power won a 20-year contract in Perú in February for “just under $48/MWh” and a “similarly lengthy” contract in Coahuila for “about $40/MWh”.
on 02016-04-16