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COMPANIES AND ASSOCIATIONS

Companies or associations involved with CSP and related technologies are listed here. Those with a UK presence are marked 'UK'.

Companies

CSP

The notes for the following companies focus on their CSP activities, although many of them offer other products and services as well.

  • Abengoa SA (Owns new PS10 power tower in Spain.)
  • Acciona Energia (Built Nevada Solar One.)
  • Acquasol (This Australian company combines CSP with desalination of sea water.)
  • UK Arxiel Ventures with partners in London (Venture capital and project development for CSP.)
  • Ausra Inc. (Californian developer of CSP backed by Vinod Khosla. They are developing the Fresnel mirror system designed by Professor David Mills, including storage of solar thermal energy.)
  • Bright Source Energy (Formerly Luz Inc., pioneer of CSP plants in California in the mid 1980s. Designs and builds large scale solar power plants for customers worldwide)
  • Capital Sun Group (Offers parabolic trough solar concentrators that can provide thermal energy for water heating, absorption cooling, space heating, steam generation, process heating, and electrical power. Mirrors may be mounted on roofs of buildings to help keep them cool.)
  • CoolEarth Solar (Using balloon reflectors as cheap alternative to rigid reflectors.)
  • Ener-t Global (Designs, installs and operates CSP plants)
  • EPURON (Formerly voltwerk AG. Developing CSP projects in Spain, Australia, the USA and the Middle East and North Africa.)
  • Fichtner Solar GmbH (A leading independent consulting engineering company involved in a large number of solar thermal power plant projects worldwide)
  • Flabeg (Makes precision mirrors for CSP plants)
  • FPL Energy (Co-owner and operator of seven solar power plants in California's Mojave Desert)
  • Giuseppe Farina (Parabolic dish systems)
  • Global Warming Solutions (Has developed a "light electric and thermal generator" that increases efficiency of PV by using a larger part of the solar spectrum)
  • Green & Gold Energy (Produces SunCube sun-tracking concentrator, using Fresnel lenses and PV.)
  • GreenVolts (Utility-scale CSP using small dishes)
  • UK HelioDynamics HQ is in Cambridge, UK (HD Solar. Develops and manufactures CSP equipment with an emphasis on solar air conditioning, solar cooling and Fresnel mirror systems designed to be incorporated in the roofs of buildings.)
  • HuiYin-Group (Solar power including large-scale parabolic trough and Fresnel mirror collectors)
  • Industrial Solar Technology Corp. (Producer of large-scale parabolic trough concentrator systems used for water heating, space heating air conditioning, steam generation, seawater desalination and electricity production.)
  • Infinia Corporation (Designs and makes Stirling engines.)
  • International Automated Systems (Uses thin-film solar lenses to concentrate sunlight.)
  • Kernenergien (Develops large-scale CSP plants.)
  • Lauren Engineers & Constructors (Contractor for Nevada Solar One.)
  • Lotus Solar Technologies Ltd (Egypt). Amongst other things, this company is using solar-generated steam for industrial processes.
  • Menova Energy Inc. (Power-Spar® small-scale parabolic trough solar concentrator system for PV, heat or lighting.)
  • UK Microsharp Corporation Limited (Makes refractive (Fresnel) and reflective films for use in CSP and CPV applications.)
  • Mubadala Development Company (a wholly owned investment vehicle of the Government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates which invests in a variety of projects, including CSP. See also the Masdar initiative.)
  • M+W Zander GmbH (General contractor for CSP power plants with Fresnel collectors. Works with NOVATEC-BioSol)
  • Nokraschy Engineering (Activities include research and consultancy on CSP)
  • NOVATEC BioSol AG (German supplier of Fresnel mirror CSP plants)
  • Open Energy Corporation (Holds exclusive, worldwide license to SunCone™ CSP using non-imaging optical cones made of reflective composites to concentrate sunlight.)
  • Pyron Solar Inc. (PV with small-scale concentration of sunlight)
  • Schlaich Bergermann und Partner (Structural consulting engineers with interests in solar power plants.)
  • UK Schott Solar Thermal / Schott UK (Makes parabolic trough mirrors and was involved in pioneering CSP plants in California in the mid 1980s. Schott has recently completed a new factory in Spain to make CSP solar collectors and another is being built in New Mexico, USA.)
  • SkyFuel Inc (Delivers turn-key, large-scale CSP plants (parabolic trough or linear Fresnel ) for power generation, desalination, waste water treatment, and other industrial applications. Solar plants can be integrated into existing facilities and can use heat storage.)
  • Solar Euromed (Parabolic trough collectors in the Alps)
  • SolarReserve (New company to develop power tower technology)
  • SolFocus (Uses small-scale mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto PV panels)
  • Soliant Energy (formerly Practical Instruments, makers of the Heliotube concentrating/PV system)
  • Solar Millennium AG (Construction and operation of large-scale solar thermal power plants, mainly parabolic trough systems and solar chimney power plants.)
  • Solar Power Group (Developing the the linear Fresnel type of CSP plant.)
  • Solarsphere (Solar mirrors in a plastic sphere)
  • Solar Systems (Australian company producing parabolic dish systems with PV.)
  • Solargenix Energy (Produces Power Roof™ system, which includes solar concentrators, and constructs parabolic trough power plants.)
  • Solar Heat and Power Inc (Produces Fresnel mirror CSP plants designed by Professor David Mills.)
  • Solel Solar Systems (Parabolic trough CSP, solar desalination of sea water, solar cooling.)
  • Solucar (Operates new PS10 power tower in Spain.)
  • Sopogy (Novel CSP systems including rooftop systems.)
  • Sunpower (Sells Stirling engines for a variety of applications including CSP.)
  • Sustainable Resources Inc. (Suncone solar power generator, with desalination of sea water)
  • Stirling Energy Systems (Parabolic dish and Stirling engine systems.)
  • Torresol Energy (A new joint venture between Sener Grupo de Ingenierãa, S.A., a Spanish engineering group, and Masdar the Abu Dhabi's future energy company, with the mission to develop, build and operate large Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants worldwide)
  • Tsugino Co. (CSP startup.)
  • UK Whitfield Solar (Makes low-cost CPV systems)
  • Wizard Power Pty Ltd (Australian company supplying solar energy solutions, with an emphasis on large dish systems)

See also: companies listed on the PESWiki Directory on concentrating solar power.

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