Washington, DC – U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the author of the 1994 California Desert Protection Act, today introduced a comprehensive bill to designate new lands in the Mojave Desert for conservation, enhance recreational opportunities, and streamline and improve the federal permitting process to advance large-scale wind and solar development on suitable lands. The carefully [...]
Australian Geothermal energy developer,Petratherm recently announced that its GeoSolar project has been offered a $794,268 grant under the Premier’s Science and Research Fund (PSRF). The innovative project aims to reduce the cost of solar thermal technology by up to 40% through the integration of solar thermal, geothermal and combustion technologies.
As passive solar thermal collection plate technology evolves so should the cost of producing them. Automation of the assembly process results in higher quality do to repeatability and lower costs due to higher production rates. KuKa Systems has been at the fore front of automation innovation in the solar thermal industry.
SolarReserve, a California-based developer of utility-scale solar power projects, today announced it has signed a 25-year power purchase agreement with NV Energy for the sale of electricity from SolarReserve’s Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project. Developed and owned by SolarReserve’s subsidiary, Tonopah Solar Energy, LLC, the 100-megawatt solar energy project will be located near the town [...]
Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii, Kona, HI – Sopogy, Inc. inaugurated the World’s first MicroCSP Solar Thermal Plant today at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii. The 2 Megawatt thermal energy project which spans across 3.8 acres in the hot Kona desert utilizes 1,000 Sopogy proprietary MicroCSP solar panels. Through the use of mirrors and [...]
Abengoa Solar and E.ON Climate & Renewables have today formed a partnership that will see them jointly own and operate two 50MW Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants. The plants which are already under construction are located in Ecija (Seville), Southern Spain, one of the best areas in Europe in terms of solar radiation. The 50:50 [...]
A Duluth, Minnesota inventor and entrepreneur has come up with an idea to use solar energy to produce solar heat inside your home to reduce your energy bill. This novel and inexpensive solar heating systems is simple and easy to install. It is a heat collecting window blind that looks pretty much like any other vertical blind. If [...]
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) are inviting the public to a public informational hearing, a site visit, and an information/scoping meeting on Thursday and Friday, Dec. 10-11, 2009, on a proposal from NextEra Energy Resources LLC, to build a 250-megawatt solar thermal power plant on public land at [...]
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