Vast Solar Media Release: 8 October 2019 Australian cleantech firm wins global innovation award Breakthrough solar energy generation and storage technology developed in Australia has won the Technology Innovation Award at the International Energy Agency’s SolarPACES 2019 conference. Australian concentrated [...]
Craig Wood, CEO Vast Solar (centre), with fellow Award recipients at CSPPLAZA, China, July 2019 Accepting the CSPPLAZA Technology Innovation Award at CSPPLAZA in China in July 2019, Craig Wood, CEO Vast Solar said: "It is an [...]
Australian concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) company Vast Solar has recently been awarded the CSP Technology Innovation Prize at the international CSPPLAZA Conference 2019 held in Suzhou, China. The Company’s world-first modular tower CSP technology uses sodium as the heat [...]
Vast Solar completes capital raise and wins international award for world-first dispatchable renewable energy technology Australian concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) company Vast Solar has recently been awarded the CSP Technology Innovation Prize at the international CSPPLAZA Conference 2019 held [...]
Kurt Drewes explains how CSP works
Angela Macdonald-Smith Senior Resources Writer Apr 23, 2019 — 12.00am Australia risks missing out on a highly promising renewable energy source if it turns its back on solar thermal technology because of the collapse of SolarReserve's high-profile $650 million project in South [...]
By James Thornhill, 17 April 2019 Recent project collapse cast doubt on solar thermal’s future Vast Solar seeks to improve the technology, reduce risks Vast Solar’s 1MW pilot project in Jemalong, Australia. Source: Vast Solar An Australian energy startup says [...]
CSP mini tower developer predicts costs below $50/MWh Apr 3, 2019 Vast Solar's modular CSP tower plant with sodium transfer fluid will be competitive with coal and gas plants at scale and the Australian developer could build its first commercial [...]
Genex Power has completed the acquisition of the 50MW Jemalong solar PV project in NSW, in a bid to diversify its generation portfolio and boost earnings while it continues to develop its flagship Kidston solar and pumped hydro storage project [...]
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