Through a charitable donation of $3500, First Light Solar (a division of FLS Energy), an Asheville-based solar energy company, becomes key sponsor of Mars Hill College Cycling and helps create a Green Cycling Team in the process. According to Mars Hill College Cycling Coach Hugh Moran, the donation could not have come at a more [...]
Cool Energy, Inc., a developer of clean energy heat and power generating systems, today announced the performance of its Stirling engine, called the SolarHeart® Engine, has surpassed its specified electrical power output of 1,500 watts. “It is very satisfying to have achieved this major milestone,” said Sam Weaver, CEO and President of Cool Energy. “To [...]
Bechtel Construction Company and two labor organizations today announced an agreement for the construction of BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Electricity Generating System, a 440-megawatt solar thermal power facility in southeastern California. Under the Project Labor Agreement (PLA), the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California (SBCTC), and the Building & Construction Trades Council of [...]
Only four months after breaking ground, Tessera Solar and Stirling Energy Systems (SES) showcased the highly anticipated Maricopa Solar power plant at a special event for key partners, stakeholders and media. Maricopa Solar is the first commercial project for the SunCatcherTM concentrating solar power (CSP) technology designed and manufactured by SES. Joining in the celebration were [...]
Public acceptance of residential solar hot water systems around the world is increasing as people work to reduce their energy bills and reduce their carbon footprints. Solar heating has been widely used on small scale for many years in countries such as China and Africa. The U.S., as with all forms of renewable energy has [...]
SHEC has been a world leader in clean renewable hydrogen research and is about to become one of the world leaders in hydrogen production with its innovative use of the sun’s energy to create hydrogen from landfill gas. Not only will SHEC create a valuable fuel source, but it will do so by using a [...]
Torresol Energy, a joint venture between Masdar, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mubadala Development Company, and SENER, a leading international multidiscipline engineering company, with offices in Abu Dhabi, has secured US$760 million project finance loans for the construction of its twin Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants – Valle 1 and Valle 2 – in Andalucía, [...]
Solar thermal energy has the potential to supply a significant fraction of the world’s energy needs if we learn to harness it effectively and to store its energy for use when we have times of high demand. An Australian company has been working on a technology that may be able to do just that. Solar [...]
Spire Corporation, a global solar company providing capital equipment and turnkey production lines to manufacture photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Spire Semiconductor, LLC, has successfully completed Phase I of its High Efficiency Concentrator Solar Cell program with the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and has been [...]
About 15 years ago a small group of women in the village San Andres (Mexico) started production of a sweet agave syrup. They formed a cooperative to make the syrup of the juice of the green agave. The process involves intensive cooking of the raw juice to concentrate it into a syrup using big gas stoves which consume large [...]
The proposed Hualapai Valley Solar Project (HVS Project) is a 340MW concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in Mohave County, Arizona, approximately 27 miles north of Kingman and 100 miles south of Las Vegas on approximately 4,000 acres of private land. The HVS Project will use a proven technology that has been operational in the United [...]
eSolar, a global provider of reliable and cost-effective concentrating solar power (CSP) plants, and Penglai Electric, a privately-owned Chinese electrical power equipment manufacturer, today announced a master licensing agreement to build at least 2 gigawatts (GW) of solar thermal power plants in China over the next 10 years. The deal was signed in the Chinese [...]
RMEL’s Solar Renewable Technologies Conference will be held on February 18, 2010 at the Denver Marriott South at Park Meadows in Littleton, CO. Solar power is gaining a more diverse following among U.S. electric utilities, with demand in 2008 growing by over 100%. The extension of the solar energy tax credit in October 2008, which [...]
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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