Beacon Power Corp., a provider of advanced energy-storage systems and services, has signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to develop components of a flywheel-based energy-storage system over a two-year period. The contract is valued at $2.8 million. ARPA-E grant recipients share a portion of the [...]
More evidence that the hidden cost of our addiction to cheap electricity generated from the burning of powdered coal is not in our long term best interest. This time the environmental close call comes not offshore from deepwater oil wells but hundreds of miles inland from the coast , near Wilmington, North Carolina. A toxic [...]
What is the attraction to solar alternative energy technologies for the global oil industry? British Betroleum has their BP Solar division, Chevron has an Alternative Energy division and recently Hybrid Energy Holdings has decided to move into solar thermal, PV and heavy oil extraction. Which one of these 3 energy technologies is not a plus [...]
PVT Solar, Inc. the creator of Echo(TM), a revolutionary new solar energy system that delivers twice the energy of a basic solar electric system, has appointed Vikas Desai as CEO. Desai was previously vice president and general manager of SunPower Corp.’s residential and light commercial business unit, which he grew to $1 billion in annualized [...]
The 234-year-old Philadelphia Navy Yard—which has morphed from defunct naval shipyard to bustling business district—is going through yet another metamorphosis: into an energy-efficient campus. State and federal officials decided that the 200 office buildings—a mix of historic and new structures occupied by organizations from the Department of Defense to Urban Outfitters—and the fact that is [...]
In close cooperation with Bayer MaterialScience AG, manufacturer Puren GmbH of Überlingen, Germany has developed the Bomatherm, a solar air collector and roof-insulation system. In this device, energy from solar radiation is intelligently combined with highly efficient thermal insulation, said an announcement from the two companies. The air collector/roof- insulation system is laid like a [...]
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Opening markets for Concentrated Solar Thermal Power – the industrial heat application Heavy industry can be a viable secondary market today for CSP producers, but questions remain on whether start-up costs are justifiable for industrial users, and how reliable CSP can be for processes that can’t pace production by the sun. Solar thermal heat implies [...]
UMA Solar, manufacturer and distributor of the industry’s highest-performing solar thermal products for residential and commercial applications nationwide, announced this week that it will be exhibiting at the Solar Power International 10 conference in Los Angeles from October 12-14. The company will be situated at booth # 4001 in the South Hall for the duration [...]
This week New York Times blogger Todd Woody reported that California regulators had licensed the Blythe Solar Power Project, a 1,000-megawatt complex to be constructed in the Mojave Desert. The power plant will not only reduce California’s environmental impact, but result in significant job creation. The article also noted that, if the Blythe complex is [...]
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the dates for Solar Decathlon 2011, a competition that challenges collegiate students from across the globe to design, build and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient, attractive, and easy to live in. The 20 teams selected for Solar Decathlon 2011 span the globe, representing four continents and [...]
Utilities looking for industry input on Concentrated Solar Power Yield Optimization Engineering ahead of CSP Today’s Denver Conference A crucial area of discussion when it comes to concentrated solar power Plant output engineering is the impact that CSP output optimization has on utility agreements, PPAs and ongoing LCOE, and the subsequent impact on the perception [...]
GEMASOLAR is the first Torresol Energy project to be developed with central tower and heliostat technology. The plant incorporates significant technological innovations, among which is the solar collection system, but there is also a molten-salt heat storage system that is capable of attaining temperatures exceeding 500ºC. This is the first commercial-scale plant in the world [...]
New thermoelectric device design and materials technology can boost solar thermal energy conversion efficiency. Nextreme Thermal Solutions, the leader in microscale thermal and power management products for the electronics industry, today announced that it has been awarded a United States patent for the design of an innovative solar thermoelectric generator (solar TEG) for high-temperature solar [...]
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