parabolic trough collector

August 27, 2021
Growing interest in concentrating solar heat in central Europe

Concentrating collectors that provide heat or steam for large energy consumers are still far and few between. In 2020, 35 projects with a total aperture area of 16,300 m² (11 MW_th) were put up around the globe, with the most capacity added in China and Turkey, However...
August 26, 2021
SolarThermal+ project sets new standard for green tourism in China

One year after the ground-breaking ceremony in May 2020, construction on the all-weather eco-tourism resort Water World in Handan, Hebei, northern China, is in full swing. Photos posted to weixin.qq.com on 19 April reveal a huge construction site bustling with activity (see photo...
December 23, 2020
Construction of largest Swedish SDH plant with parabolics

In November, construction began on what will be Sweden’s largest district heating system based on solar concentrating technology. This 3,000 m² field of parabolic trough collectors (1.5 MW_th) is part of a EUR 1.6 million demonstration project that will receive 48 % of...
September 25, 2020
World´s largest solar district heating plant with concentrating collectors

The Chinese parabolic trough collector manufacturer Inner Mongolia XuChen Energy has successfully operated a huge solar district heating plant since 2016 in a village near Baotou in Inner Mongolia, an autonomous region of China. Yu Wang, General Manager of XuChen, said that there is...
April 23, 2020
Italian-Chinese joint venture to build parabolic trough collector factory

Italian-based Trivelli Energia and Chinese-based Yaoguo have formed a joint venture with the aim of manufacturing Trivelli´s parabolic trough collectors in Tengzhou, China. The first contracts were signed at the beginning of 2019, and initial milestones were set at a kick-off meeting in...
March 31, 2014
Germany: World Map of Solar Process Heat Collector Industry 2014

There is enormous demand for industrial heat in the temperature range between 100 and 250 °C all around the world, and solar thermal technologies are said to play an important role in covering this demand over the next decades. A joint project by magazine Sun & Wind Energy and German...
March 30, 2012
Europe: InSun Project Showcases Concentrating Collectors for Process Heat

1 April was the starting day of the EU FP 7 Project InSun (Industrial Process Heat by Solar Collectors) coordinated by zafh.net, the Centre for Applied Research on Sustainable Energy Technology at the University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany. The participants of the project want to...
December 20, 2011
Technology Review and Selection of CSP and Desalination Configurations (2009)

This Final Report is the deliverable of Work Package (WP1) from the MED-CSD Project. Designed to assess combined solar power and desalination plants’ technico-economic potential in Mediterranean Partner countries, it was a project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework...
January 24, 2010
Hawaii: Electricity through Sunshine and MicroCSP Technology

A solar field for electricity production: The 1,000 parabolic trough collectors by Hawaiian manufacturer Sopogy, which stand in the hot Kona desert on the Big Island of Hawaii, equal the output of a 2 MW thermal power.
Photo: Sopogy/Keahole Solar Power