This is a list of
concentrating solar thermal power (CSTP) companies. The CSTP industry finished a first round of new construction during 2006/7, a resurgence after more than 15 years of commercial dormancy.
The CSTP industry saw many new entrants and new manufacturing facilities in 2008. Active project developers grew to include Ausra, Mulk Enpar Renewable Energy, Bright Source Energy, eSolar, FPL Energy, Infinia, Sopogy, and Stirling Energy Systems in the USA. In Spain, Abengoa Solar, Acciona, Iberdrola Renovables, and Sener were active in 2008.
REN21
REN21 (Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century) is a think tank and a multistakeholder governance group which is focused on renewable energy policy.
REN21's goal is to facilitate policy development, knowledge exchange, and joint ac ...
(2009)
Renewables Global Status Report: 2009 Update
p. 16.REN21
REN21 (Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century) is a think tank and a multistakeholder governance group which is focused on renewable energy policy.
REN21's goal is to facilitate policy development, knowledge exchange, and joint ac ...
(2010)
Renewables 2010 Global Status Report
p. 32.
List of notable companies
Parabolic trough collectors:
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Aalborg CSP
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Abengoa
Abengoa, S.A. was a Spanish multinational company in the green infrastructure, energy and water sectors. The company was founded in 1941 by Javier Benjumea Puigcerver and José Manuel Abaurre Fernández-Pasalagua, and was based in Seville, Sp ...
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Acciona
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GlassPoint Solar
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Rackam
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SENER
SENER is a private engineering and technology group founded in 1956, and specialises in activities related to Engineering and Construction, and has industrial holdings in companies working in the areas of energy, environment and aeronautics.
SEN ...
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Solar Millennium
Solar Millennium was a German company globally active in the renewable energy sector founded in 1998 in Erlangen, Germany, which is specialized in the designing and implementation of solar thermal power plants. The main activities are site selectio ...
(bankruptcy)
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Soliterm Group
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Sopogy
Sopogy was a solar thermal technology supplier founded in 2002 at the Honolulu, Hawaii-based clean technology incubator known as Energy Laboratories. The company began its research on concentrating solar thermal energy to produce solar steam and t ...
Micro CSP
Solar tower technology:
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BrightSource Energy
BrightSource Energy, Inc. is an Oakland, California based, corporation that designs, builds, finances, and operates utility-scale solar power plants.
Greentech Media ranked BrightSource as one of the top 10 greentech startups in the world in 200 ...
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Torresol Energy
Torresol Energy is a company dedicated to developing renewable energy and alternative energies, focusing on concentrated solar energy. It is based in the city of Getxo in Biscay Province (''Vizcaya''), in the Basque Country of northern Spain ...
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Heliogen
Linear fresnel:
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AREVA Solar, formerly
Ausra
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Novatec Solar
Novatec Solar is a German provider of solar boilers based on linear Fresnel collector technology based in Karlsruhe. Novatec Solar specialises in turnkey delivery including manufacture, supply, and assembly of solar fields.
Timeline
In March 20 ...
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eSolar
eSolar is a privately held company that develops concentrating solar power (CSP) plant technology. The company was founded by the Pasadena-based business incubator Idealab in 2007 as a developer of CSP plant technology. The company aims to devel ...
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Cobra
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Iberdrola
Iberdrola () is a Spanish multinational electric utility company based in Bilbao, Spain. Iberdrola has a workforce of around 34,000 employees serving around 31.67 million customers. Subsidiaries include Scottish Power (United Kingdom) ...
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SENER
SENER is a private engineering and technology group founded in 1956, and specialises in activities related to Engineering and Construction, and has industrial holdings in companies working in the areas of energy, environment and aeronautics.
SEN ...
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Solar Euromed
Solar Euromed is a high technology group based in France specialized in concentrated solar power technology, in activity from 2007 to 2016.
The company provides proprietary solar thermal power systems which produce heat for power generation and ...
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Solarlite
Solarlite CSP Technology GmbH, located in Mecklenburg-Pomerania, Germany, develops and builds decentralized solar-thermal parabolic trough power plants (CSP – Concentrated Solar Power) and process heat plants. For the first time worldwide, Sola ...
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SolarReserve
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Stirling Energy Systems (filed for bankruptcy)
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Wizard Power
See also
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List of energy storage projects
This is a list of energy storage power plants worldwide, other than pumped hydro storage.
Many individual energy storage plants augment electrical grids by capturing excess electrical energy during periods of low demand and storing it in o ...
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List of photovoltaics companies
This is a list of notable photovoltaics (PV) companies.
Grid-connected solar photovoltaics (PV) is the fastest growing energy technology in the world, growing from a cumulative installed capacity of 7.7 GW in 2007, to 320 GW in 2016. In 2016 ...
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List of solar thermal power stations
This is a list of the largest facilities generating electricity through the use of solar thermal power, specifically concentrated solar power.
Operational
Under construction
Announced
Cancelled
Decommissioned
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Renewable energy industry
References
External links
Desert Sunrise: Concentrating Solar Power Makes Worldwide ProgressLow-cost Solar Thermal Plants at Heart of Algerian-German Research PushABROS green GmbH
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