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2013
• Agua Prieto Integrated Solar (CSP) Combined Cycle 15 MW plant began operation in Mexico.
• The Godawari Solar Project became the first CSP project to operate in India. As of 2020, three CSP plants
are operating in India with a total capacity of 200 MW.
• The last 50 MW trough CSP plant out of a total of fifty CSP plants began operation, bringing the total
capacity of CSP plants in Spain to 2.3 GW.
• Solana, a 250 MW trough plant with six hours of thermal energy storage came online in Arizona.
• Ivanpah, a complex of 3 solar power towers, with a total capacity of 377 MW came online in California.
• Shams 1, a 100 MW CSP trough plant in Abu Dhabi began operation.

2014
• Mojave and Genesis, each 250 MW trough plants located in California came online.
• Crescent Dunes, a 110 MW molten salt power tower with 10 hours of thermal energy storage, located in
Nevada, came online.

2015
• The 100 MW Kaxu parabolic trough plant came online in South Africa. As of 2020, there are six CSP plants
with a combined capacity of 500 MW operating in South Africa.
• Noor I, a 160 MW parabolic trough plant with 3 hours of TES, became the second commercial CSP plant
in Morocco. As of 2020, there are three CSP plants operating in Morocco with a combined capacity of 500
MW.
• SEGS 1 and 2, the first commercial CSP projects in the US, shutdown at the end of their power purchase
agreements after operating for 30 years.
• China approved 20 demonstration CSP projects ranging in size from 50 to 100 MW. Proposed projects
include power tower, trough and linear Fresnel technologies.
2016
• The first commercial CSP plant to come online in China was a 10 MW tower. As of 2020, there are 11
commercial CSP plants operating in China with total capacity 521 MW.

2018
• The Ashalim A 110 MW parabolic trough with 4.5 hours of TES and Ashalim B 121 MW superheated
steam power tower began operation in Israel.

2019
• The 50 MW Shagaya CSP plant with 10 hours of TES began operation in Kuwait.
• Waad Al-Shamal Integrated Solar (CSP) Combined Cycle 50 MW plant began operation in Saudi Arabia.

2020
• Spain submitted to the EU Commission its National Energy and Climate Plan which calls for an additional
5 GW of CSP by 2030.
• Portugal has plans for 30 MW of new CSP capacity by 2030 and Italy has plans for 500 MW of new CSP
capacity by 2030.
• Most of the southwestern States in the US have legislated 100% carbon free generation and the
corresponding and evolving needs of the grid has opened a window of opportunity for CSP with TES to
allow electricity generation in the evening and night. As of 2020, the CSP capacity in the US is 1,740 MW.

2021
• The 110 MW Cerro Dominator molten-salt tower project with 17.5 hours of TES is expected to begin
operation in the Atacama Desert in Chile.
• The 200 MW trough and 100 MW MS tower are scheduled to come online for DEWA project in Dubai UAE
with two additional 200 MW trough plants to follow. This plant includes 250 MW of PV.
• Midelt, a 400 MW of CSP trough with 5 hours of TES hybrid with 400 MW of PV, is under construction in
Morocco.

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