The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced plans to provide up to $52.5 million to research, develop, and demonstrate Concentrating Solar Power systems capable of providing low-cost electrical power both day and night. This announcement underscores the Obama Administration’s commitment to creating jobs and saving money, making electricity generated from solar energy competitive with conventional grid [...]
Starwood Energy Group Global LLC (“Starwood Energy”), a private investment firm focused on energy infrastructure projects,recently announced that its affiliate, , LLC has signed a definitive power purchase agreement (“PPA”) with Arizona Public Service Company. Starwood Solar will contract with Lockheed Martin Corporation to construct a 290 megawatt concentrating solar trough plant in Harquahala Valley, [...]
Progress Energy Carolinas is now accepting applications for its new SunSenseSM Solar Water Heating research study, which will test the energy-saving potential of solar water heating systems in the Carolinas. The research study is one of several new energy-efficiency programs that are designed to help residential customers save money and reduce their energy use. Up [...]
Enable IPC Corporation’s (Pink Sheets: EIPC) subsidiary, SolRayo, was recently invited to present on ultracapacitor technology at the Wisconsin Renewable Energy Summit in Milwaukee on March 26th . The presentation, “Ultracapacitors for Off-Grid Solar Energy Applications” made by SolRayo’s Chief Technology Officer, Kevin Leonard is now availble for the public to view. See below for [...]
TITAN TRACKER, a Spanish based technology firm specialized in manufacturing and commercialization of dual-axis solar trackers has just developed, under its industrial property rights, a Stirling dish concentrator: the model 125-129 STIRLING, specifically designed for utility-scale Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Each structure includes two parabolic dishes with a high reflectance-mirrors surface of 65,4 m2 This [...]
July 1st marked the day that Europe’s first ever parabolic trough power plant, Andasol 1, was officially inaugurated under the patronage of the president of the Junta de Andalucía. In December 2008,Andasol 1 was connected to the grid and supplies up to 200,000 people in southern Spain with environmentally friendly electricity. With a collector surface [...]
China will see the longest total solar eclipse in 500 years on July 22. The prime time of the total eclipse was expected to begin from 9 a.m. to 9:38 a.m. (Beijing Time), said Wang Sichao, a research fellow with the Nanjing-based Purple Mountain Observatory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. According to Wang; The [...]
Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced recently that it has entered into an agreement with Alpine SunTower, LLC, a subsidiary of NRG Energy Inc. for 92 megawatts (MW) of renewable, solar thermal power. The Alpine SunTower project features eSolar’s modular, scalable solar thermal technology and is scheduled for completion in 2012. The project will be [...]
Cyclone Power Technologies has signed a license agreement with , S.A., based in Madrid, Spain. The signing of this license with one of the world’s leading companies in the field of alternative and solar power marks a major milestone for Cyclone and its award-winning technology. Under the agreement, Cyclone will design with Renovalia a compact, [...]
Here is an interested development in technology that will help us as we strive to understand the solar and solar flare activity. Scientists have created the first-ever comprehensive computer model of sunspots. Ever since outward flows from the center of sunspots were discovered 100 years ago, scientists have worked to explain the complex structure of sunspots, whose [...]
First Solar Thermal Power Plant in Southeast Asia is Fully Operational
Torresol Energy Launches Commercial Operations of Twin Solar Thermal Plants in Spain
Solar Alliance and SEIA Merge to Establish U.S. Solar policies at the State Level
Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit Pushes Start Button at First Solar Thermal Power Plant in Thailand
Thai Deputy Prime Minister Yongyuth Wichaidit pushes start button at first solar thermal power plant in Thailand built with Solarlite’s unique technology
New Concentrated Solar Thermal Technology Uses Considerably Resources than any Other CSP technology
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