The California Public Utilities Commission ( CPUC) approved a new, eight-year program of incentives for solar water heating with funding of $350 million at its January 21 meeting. Part of the California Solar Initiative, the program, called CSI Thermal, has a goal of an additional 200,000 Solar Thermal systems in California by 2018. The new [...]
The City of Phoenix, Arizona is working a solar thermal project that when completed will be the city’s largest ever solar project. The solar thermal technology will be purchased from Tessera Solar. The utility-scale solar plant is being constructed at the city’s only active landfill, at SR 85 in Buckeye, Ariz. It will result in nearly $1 billion [...]
The Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA) and Ice Energy, a leading provider of advanced energy storage solutions, are working on biulding the U.S.’s first cost-effective, utility-scale, distributed energy storage project. The 53 Megawatt (MW) project, to be implemented by SCPPA member utilities throughout Southern California, will permanently reduce California’s peak electrical demand by shifting [...]
Sandia National Laboratories recently won two national Federal Laboratory Consortium awards for its efforts to transfer technology to supercomputer manufacturer Cray Inc., and solar energy supplier Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. SES’s Solar Thermal Dish-Stirling Engine system uses very large concentrating mirrored parabolic dish designs, similar in diameter size and scale, to the large satellite dishes used [...]
The joint federal and state Renewable Energy Action Team (REAT) has announced the signing of an agreement to enable renewable energy projects such as solar thermal and solar PV proposed in the California deserts to address mitigation requirements through the use of a deposit account rather than having to individually undertake mitigation for each project. [...]
Reuters is reporting that Florida Power and light seems to have picked Solar PV technology or Solar Thermal power as their solar energy generation of choice. A the local distributed the level solar PV has advantages over some solar thermal technologies in that they do not scale down well. Yet! Where Concentrated Solar energy really [...]
I know, this is a site about solar thermal energy and concentrated solar systems and I realize that the picture on the left looks a lot like BP’s corporate logo. Well, you have to admit that the logo does look more like a sun than an oil rig or tank of gasoline. I guess [...]
A new report from the EIA gives a sobering forecast of the world wide increase in energy consumption that will likely occur in the next 25 years. In light of our troubles trying to fulfill our recession economies need for oil and the ends that that oil and coal demand has driven us this forecast becomes [...]
Drake Landing Solar Community is North America’s first large-scale seasonal storage solar heating system and the first in the world to provide such a high percentage of space heating from solar energy. The project includes a district heating loop that uses solar energy to supply space heating for 52 homes built in Okotoks, Alberta, just [...]
SkyFuel’s ReflecTech division has received a 2010 Emerging Technology Award from RadTech International for the company’s collaborative development of an abrasion resistant hardcoat for ReflecTech® Mirror Film. The hardcoat adds a protective shield to the surface of ReflecTech® Mirror Film which is primarily used in utility-scale parabolic trough concentrating solar power (CSP) systems as a [...]
Abengoa Solar began commercial operation of Solnova 3, a new parabolic solar thermal trough technology plant located at the Solúcar Complex, Seville (Spain), following the successful completion of the operation and production testing conducted over the course of three days. This plant has enabled Abengoa Solar to reach a total of 143 megawatts of solar [...]
It would be nice to provide overall good news regarding the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that has been gushing oil into the sea for over a month, but that is not the case this morning. BP seems to be incapable of stopping the oil from gushing into the Gulf and of [...]
PHOENIX – Governor Jan Brewer Monday announced that 14 Arizona non-profit organizations will receive American Recovery and investment Act (ARRA) funds for renewable energy projects at their facilities throughout the state. The funding is part of the $55.4 million awarded to the Arizona Department of Commerce Energy Office through the State Energy Program (SEP). “We’re [...]
SkyFuel First in Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Industry to Offer Insurance-Backed Warranty
Solar Thermal Developer Solar Millennium Sells Additional Investments
Abengoa and JGC’s Thermal Solar Power Plant, Solacor 1, Comes Online
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
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