{"id":3128,"date":"2011-03-05T12:30:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T07:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenworldinvestor.com\/?p=3128"},"modified":"2011-03-05T12:30:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T07:00:38","slug":"skyfuel-gets-a-csp-contract-in-the-highly-protected-chinese-solar-marketother-winners-first-solaresolar-yet-to-begin-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/2011\/03\/05\/skyfuel-gets-a-csp-contract-in-the-highly-protected-chinese-solar-marketother-winners-first-solaresolar-yet-to-begin-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"SkyFuel gets a CSP Contract in the highly protected Chinese Solar Market;Other Winners First Solar,eSolar yet to begin construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SkyFuel,the US based Solar Thermal Company has managed to get a contract to set up a 50 MW Solar Thermal Plant in China .The CSP plant which will use SkyFuel&#8217;s Proprietary Reflective Film Technology will be a JV between Huludao Ruixinda Industry Co., the State-owned Assets Supervision &amp; Administration Commission (SASAC), and the US-China Economic and Cultural Development Alliance (US-China ECDA). Note SkyFuel does not have any significant commercial power plant running yet.Like\u00a0 eSolar and Brightsource Energy,it is still in the pre-commercial stage.<\/p>\n<p>Note China&#8217;s Solar Market is a highly competitive and protected one with outside solar companies hardly having any presence similar to Japan&#8217;s market.<a href=\"http:\/\/greenworldinvestor.com\/2010\/08\/16\/first-solars-showpiece-2000-mw-solar-plant-in-inner-mongolia-gets-stalled-chinese-protectionism\/\">First Solar which signed a massive gigawatt contract to build a plant in Ordos has seen only delays<\/a> as Chinese solar manufacturers opposed the plant.First Solar is still trying to build the plant signing a new JV with one of China&#8217;s 5 big utilities.eSolar another CSP company got a contract to build a plant with China but till date construction does not seem to have begun there also.<a href=\"http:\/\/greenworldinvestor.com\/2010\/05\/22\/reality-check-for-us-commerce-secratary-usa-is-already-far-behind-china-in-clean-energy\/\">The Chinese government seems mostly interested in high-tech <\/a>companies (First Solar,eSolar) rather than run of the mill players without any differentiating technology.Even these technology companies have failed to make much headway.Remains to be seen whether SkyFuel Succeeds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyfuel.com\/downloads\/press_releases\/PressReleaseHuludaoAgreement(SkyFuel)2011Mar3.pdf\">SkyFuel Enters Chinese Solar Market with Parabolic Trough<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SkyFuel has signed an agreement for the construction of a 50 MWe concentrating solar power (CSP) plant at a site near Huludao in China.\u00a0 The plant will use SkyFuel\u2019s advanced, low-cost parabolic trough concentrating solar collector (the SkyTrough\u00ae) to supply heat to a standard steam driven power plant.\u00a0 The agreement was signed with Project Developer Huludao Ruixinda Industry Co., the State-owned Assets Supervision &amp; Administration Commission (SASAC), and the US-China Economic and Cultural Development Alliance (US-China ECDA).\u00a0 The plant will provide clean, carbon-free electricity to the growing city of Huludao, about 400 km east of Beijing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note China&#8217;s Solar Market is a highly competitive and protected one with outside solar companies hardly having any presence similar to Japan&#8217;s market.First Solar which signed a massive gigawatt contract to build a plant in Ordos has seen only delays as Chinese solar manufacturers opposed the plant.First Solar is still trying to build the plant signing a new JV with one of China&#8217;s 5 big utilities.eSolar another CSP company got a contract to build a plant with China but till date construction does not seem to have begun there also.The Chinese government seems mostly interested in high-tech technology (First Solar,eSolar) rather than run of the mill players.Even these technology companies have failed to make much headway.Remains to be seen whether SkyFuel Succeeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80,83,89,45,105],"tags":[1186,1206,1685,1720,1789,2243,3963,4111,4985,5291],"class_list":["post-3128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china-world-markets","category-csp","category-first-solar","category-solar-renewable-energy-greeninvest","category-usa-north-america-world-markets","tag-competition","tag-csp","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-esolar","tag-government","tag-parabolic-trough","tag-power-tower","tag-solar-plant","tag-subsidy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiec-india.org\/greenworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}