Solar Hot Water for Homes The SolarBeam can provide solar hot water for in-floor heating and radiant heating by providing free hot water to the boiler. At a location that has a solar radiation of 900 w/m2, 1 SolarBeam can heat 1,000 liters of water from 12 C to 60 C in 4 hours. This [...]
Milwaukee, Wisconsin– The Midwest Renewable Energy Association is proud to announce this year’s keynote speaker for the SOLAR THERMAL ’11 National Solar Heating and Cooling Conference. The keynote speaker will be Mark Thornbloom, Vice-Chair of the Solar Rating and Certification Corporation (SRCC), an independent non-profit U.S. entity that certifies solar thermal equipment and publishes performance [...]
Southwest Solar Technologies Inc. announced today the successful on-sun testing and proof of concept of a highly advanced solar-turbine power system being developed by the Company. The full-scale prototype test was the first operational validation of the integrated system, which uses a large parabolic solar dish with mirrors to concentrate the sun’s energy to power [...]
SolarBeam Concentrator – a parabolic reflector that concentrates sunlight onto a small absorber to create solar energy. The reflector tracks the sun to create solar hot water. It consists of 16 polished anodized aluminum petals that are resistant to salt spray and acid rain. The system is designed for extreme weather conditions, including wind velocity [...]
PHOENIX-Southwest Solar Technologies Inc. announced today that it has commissioned the largest commercial solar dish in North America, one of the largest in the world.
BOSTON–Despite competitive photovoltaic prices and lingering environmental and financing concerns, concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies are poised for gigawatt-scale adoption in 2011; and future growth will remain healthy as the generation stack increasingly incorporates CSP plants in excess of 100 MW. However, in order to land their share of this emerging market, utilities and developers [...]
SolarTron Energy Systems Inc. is a privately held high tech company, based in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada. Edward Herniak, founder and CEO of SolarTron Energy Systems Inc. is the principal designer. Mr. Herniak possesses many years of experience in providing energy saving solutions through his company EG Energy Controls.
Southwest Solar Technologies Opens 18 Acre Research Park Southwest Solar Technologies has announced that it has completed initial development of the Southwest Solar Research Park in Phoenix, Arizona. The 18-acre, state-of-the-art, secured facility is located just south of Sky Harbor Airport. The focal point of the facility, a 75 foot diameter concentrating solar dish, is [...]
HOUSTON, TX K Road Power, an independent power developer focused on utility-scale solar projects, has acquired the Calico Solar Project from Tessera Solar. The transaction secures the continued development of Calico Solar, job creation when the Project enters construction and the generation of solar energy when the plant begins operations. “Calico Solar is one of [...]
SHEC Energy Corporation and Cleanergy have signed an MOU for the joint development of a high-efficiency solar Stirling engine. SHEC Energy’s high-efficiency solar receiver technology will be coupled with Cleanergy’s proven Stirling Engine technology to develop the world’s most advanced Solar Stirling Engine offering. Engineers from both SHEC Energy and Cleanergy gave design approval to [...]
Imperial Valley Solar Project First Utility Scale Project to Receive Both California Energy Commission and Bureau of Land Management Approval Tessera Solar’s Imperial Valley Solar Project became the first utility scale solar power project to be approved by both the state and federal governments, with the issuance today of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) [...]
Linamar Corp. is expanding its local workforce with a new $200-million investment in the city of Guelph , Ontario,Canada. Chief executive officer Linda Hasenfratz said the company has already begun hiring between 1,200 and 1,300 people over three years to work in its local car parts and solar thermal dish manufacturing plants. Linamar has been developing [...]
Vinci Energía C.V. has announced that it is poised to launch one of the first pre-commercial solar thermal electric plants based on its new Luter 10 Stirling dish technology. Rather than using conventional mirrors, the solar receivers will be fitted with Vinci Energía’s patented optical assembly. The new Stirling dish unit developed by Vinci Energía [...]
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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