List of concentrating solar thermal power companies
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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.
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.
List of notable companies
- AbengoaAbengoaAbengoa is a Spanish multinational corporation, which includes companies in the domains of energy, telecommunications, transportation, and the environment...
- AccionaAccionaAcciona, S.A., is a Spanish conglomerate group dedicated to civil engineering, construction and infrastructure.The company was founded in 1997 through the merger of Entrecanales y Tavora and Cubiertas y MZOV. The company's headquarters is in Alcobendas, Community of Madrid, Spain. The company's U.S...
- AREVAArevaAREVA is a French public multinational industrial conglomerate headquartered in the Tour Areva in Courbevoie, Paris. AREVA is mainly known for nuclear power; it also has interests in other energy projects. It was created on 3 September 2001, by the merger of Framatome , Cogema and...
Solar, formerly AusraAusra (company)Ausra Inc. is a company that provides solar thermal power, steam and energy systems for industrial processes and utility-scale electricity generation... - BrightSource EnergyBrightSource EnergyBrightSource Energy is an Oakland, California, corporation that designs, builds, finances and operates utility-scale solar power plants that deliver clean, low-cost solar energy to utility and industrial customers worldwide at prices that compete with fossil fuels.Greentech Media ranked...
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- eSolarESolareSolar was founded by the Pasadena-based business incubator Idealab in 2007 as a developer of concentrating solar power plant technology....
- Gadhia Solar
- IberdrolaIberdrolaIberdrola , headquartered in Bilbao, is a private utility with a global footprint and over 150 years of experience...
- Industrial Solar GmbH
- Infinia Corporation
- Novatec Solar
- Samca Renovables
- Schott
- Sener Ingenieria y Sistemas
- SkyFuelSkyFuelSkyFuel is a designer and provider of thermal concentrating solar power equipment for utility scale power generation and industrial applications of steam. Energy from thermal CSP plants can be stored for later use and deliver electricity matched to the load profile of the utility company...
- Solar EuromedSolar EuromedSolar Euromed is a high technology group based in France specialized in concentrated solar power technology.The company provides proprietary solar thermal power systems which produce heat for power generation and industrial applications with the built-in ability to store energy and supply...
- SolarliteSolarliteSolarlite GmbH, located in Mecklenburg-Pomerania, Germany, develops and builds decentralized solar-thermal parabolic trough plants for combined heat and power generation . These power plants have an electrical output in the range of 500 kWe up to more than 30 MWe...
- Solar MillenniumSolar MillenniumSolar Millennium is a German globally active company in the renewable energy sector founded in 1998 in Erlangen, Germany, which is specialized in the designing and implementation of solar thermal power plants...
- SolarReserveSolarReserveSolarReserve is a Santa Monica, California based company that develops utility-scale concentrating solar power plants with integrated molten salt thermal energy storage technology. It was initially founded in early 2008 by US Renewables Group in partnership with United Technologies Corporation...
- SolelSolelSolel Solar Systems Ltd. is an Israeli solar thermal equipment designer and manufacturer based in Beit Shemesh, Israel. Solel makes equipment for solar thermal power plants, facilities that use the sun's heat to create steam and turn an electricity generator....
Bought by SiemensSiemensSiemens may refer toSiemens, a German family name carried by generations of telecommunications industrialists, including:* Werner von Siemens , inventor, founder of Siemens AG... - SopogySopogySopogy a solar thermal technology supplier was founded in 2002 at the Honolulu, Hawaii based clean technology incubator known as . The company began its research on concentrating solar thermal energy to produce steam and thermal heat for absorption chiller. The company has also developed...
- Stirling Energy SystemsStirling Energy SystemsStirling Energy Systems is a Scottsdale, Arizona-based company which develops equipment for utility-scale renewable energy power plants and distributed electrical generating systems....
- Suntrough Energy
- Torresol EnergyTorresol EnergyTorresol Energy is a joint venture between SENER and Masdar . It develops solar power tower plants with molten salt technology and parabolic trough power plants....
- Wizard PowerWizard PowerWizard Power Pty Ltd is an Australian company focused on solar technology research, development and commercialisation. The company is headquartered in Canberra, Australia.Wizard Power's technology portfolio includes:* The Big Dish solar thermal concentrator...
See also
- List of solar thermal power stations
- Renewable energy industry
- List of photovoltaics companies