Monthly Archives: March 2008

Get set! Go!

Special announcement:

2 x Solar thermal power stations PPP (Public Private Partnership) will be built in Israel, each 80MW – 125MW, and up to total of 250MW.

Submission for the PQ was originally due July 1st 2008, but is now due August 1st 2008.

Threshold Requirements:

(1) Experience in the design, construction, operation and maintenance of conventional and solar power plants as follows:

· experience and capability to supply solar technology and the successful supply of such solar technology for at least one power plant with a total production capacity of not less than 3 MW installed capacity, connected to a grid and operating consecutively for the last two years.

· operating and maintaining of at least one currently operating solar thermal power plant with a total production capacity of not less than 3 MW installed capacity, connected to a grid and operating for at least two years.

[*** editorial note:
                  It looks like no company could satisfy the a/m 2 requirements!!

                           We assume it will be changed soon enough.]

 

· served as the EPC Contractor in the design, construction and supply / purchase of at least one conventional power plant with not less than 100 MW installed capacity that operated for at least one year, during the last ten years.

· operating and maintaining, of at least one conventional power plant with capacity of not less than 100 MW installed capacity, which operated for a consecutive three years period, during the last six years.

(2) Financial robustness.

 

** In addition: A PQ for a 15MV PV power station will be announced on May 2008.

For more information you may contact: info@cleanenergy.co.il

SCHOTT announced its new production line in Albuquerque

In March 2009, the first PTR-70 receiver manufactured for sale is scheduled to roll off the production line of Schott’s new manufacturing facility announced lately at New Mexico. The receiver used for parabolic troughs contains an outer “envelope” glass tube which has an anti-reflective coating. Inside, in an evacuated sealed environment, is a steel tube covered by an absorptive coating. It is inside this steel tube that a heat transfer fluid (HTF) flows when heated by the sun. This fluid, when heated by the sun, is then used to turn water into steam, which drives a turbine, generating electricity.

The first company to develop and produce such receivers was LUZ, with its LS-1,2 and 3 models. Solel Solar systems continue this production line and developed enhanced versions with enhansed and upgraded control systems.  Solel claims that its receivers enjoy significant improvements like unique selective and anti-reflective coatings that enables higher energy output and longer working life. Now it is up to Solel to announce when and where it will open new production lines, enabling them to meet market expectations. 

The professional community is expecting to see some independent laboratories examining and comparing Schotts’s and Solel’s receivers……

Will it be NREL to pick up the gauntlet? 

The Albuquerque Schott’s site will have also capability to produce 64MW of PV panels. The first 220 Watt panel will be lunched in April 2009. Additional PV manufacturing lines will be added to the facility to meet market demand.