Concentrix Solar, a leading supplier of Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) systems and a new division of the Soitec Group (Euronext Paris), the world’s leading supplier of engineered substrates, has announced that it has signed a contract with Chevron Technology Ventures for the deployment of a one megawatt (MW) CPV power plant to be installed at a Chevron [...]
Google Inc has developed a prototype for a new mirror technology that could cut by half the cost of building a solar thermal plant, the company’s green energy czar said last week. Bill Weihl said that if development and testing go well, he could see the product being ready in one to three years. In [...]
Fafco Solar, a renewable energy company in Cape Coral, recently announced the debut of a hybrid solar air conditioning product for homes and businesses in Southwest Florida. This new hybrid solar air conditioner is currently available from Fafco Solar for area homes and businesses. The product is designed to use a solar thermal collector to [...]
BrightSource Energy, Inc., developer of utility-scale solar thermal power plants, announced this week that the U.S. Department of Energy has conditionally committed to provide $1.37 billion in loan guarantees to support the financing of BrightSource’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. The commitment to provide loan guarantees marks a key milestone in the development of the Ivanpah project, [...]
Markell Signs Executive Order to Set Clean Energy Targets and Mandate Environmental Practices Dover, DE – Governor Jack Markell signed an Executive Order today that will foster economic development while reducing the impact of State government on the environment and reducing operating expenses. “State government is becoming far more energy and cost efficient. This executive [...]
A Seattle Washington based company has announced the release of a new suite of global Solar (and wind)Prospecting Tools that will change the way renewable energy professionals decide where to develop renewable resources by providing immediate access to seasonal variability data, which is critical to understanding a site’s energy potential. “3TIER has delivered the next generation [...]
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced that it has contracted with subsidiaries of NextEra Energy Resources and Abengoa Solar for delivery of a total of 500 megawatts (MW) of clean solar power. The agreements are among several solar deals recently signed by the utility with independent developers for a total of 830 MW. NextEra’s [...]
eSolar, a leading producer of modular, scalable concentrating solar thermal power technology, and Ferrostaal AG, one of the world’s largest power plant developers, announced today a partnership to deploy turnkey solar power plants in countries including Spain, the United Arab Emirates, and South Africa. Under the agreement, eSolar will provide solar field and receiver technology, [...]
It can be inconvenient to replace batteries in devices that need to work over long periods of time. Doctors might have to get beneath a patients skin to replace batteries for implanted biomedical monitoring or treatment systems. Batteries used in devices that monitor machinery, infrastructure or industrial installations may be crammed into hard-to-reach nooks or [...]
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has announced two Industry technology demonstration projects designed to help utilities add solar energy to fossil-fueled power plants that could result in reduced emissions and fuel costs. Both projects involve adding steam generated by a solar thermal field to a conventional fossil fuel-powered steam cycle to help generate electricity, [...]
Cleveland, Ohio, and Berkeley, California. – Solar Trust of America, LLC, an integrated industrial solar solutions company, has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Solar Millennium, LLC, has begun testing the advanced parabolic trough solar radiation collector technology called HelioTrough at an existing solar power plant in the southwestern United States. The testing is designed to [...]
New Mexico-based Sundrop Fuels recently announced that theyhave developed a hybrid solar-biomass refinery. The company plans to use concentrated solar power (CSP) to heat plant scraps and wood chips to create a biofuel. That biofuel can then be used to create gasoline or diesel fuel. Instead of using mirrors to reflect sunlight and to heat [...]
American Solar, Inc. has announced it has won a contract to install an 11,000-square-foot solar heating roof at the Army Research Lab in Adelphi, MD. This solar roof is the centerpiece of a re-roof and solar heating upgrade for an office building. When completed, the system will be the largest installed solar air-heating roof in [...]
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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