Seville, Spain – March, 2013 Abengoa, the international company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainable development in the energy and environment sectors, and BrightSource Energy, a leading concentrating solar thermal technology company, today signed an agreement to jointly develop, build and operate the world’s two largest solar power towers in California. As joint partners, [...]
BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading solar thermal technology company, has named Richard “Dick†Kelly as Chairman of the company’s Board of Directors. Kelly is the former Chairman and CEO of Xcel Energy, and brings more than four decades of experience in the electricity generation and public utility industry to his role at BrightSource. “Dick has [...]
AKOTRACE®, PART OF GEMASOLAR SUCCESS We take a break analyzing ways to optimize the performance of a CSP plant to talk instead about a real life example: Gemasolar. The magnificent plant has been recently officially inaugurated as the first commercial scale solar power plant capable of generating electricity all day and night. It has 15 [...]
The Solar Research Facilities of the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) are among the most advanced laboratories in the world for concentrated solar energy research. A major feature of the Unit is a SolarPower Tower containing a field of 64 large, multi-faceted mirrors (heliostats), each measuring 7 X 8 meters. A picture of the Solar [...]
LENS (The Laboratory for Energy & Nano Sciences) has designed a very novel variation to the solar power tower. Most power towers collector solar energy with ground mounted rings of sun tracking computer controlled mirrors that focus the energy to small single point at the tower top. This single point heats water or a working fluid [...]
Earlier this month, SGS attended the inauguration of a groundbreaking project Gemasolar, the new concentrated solar power plant, located in Fuentes Andalucia, Spain as the world’s leading inspection, testing, certification and verification company involved in the construction, commissioning and operation phase of the facility. Gemasolar, owned by Torresol Energy, a joint venture between Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s [...]
 BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading solar thermal technology company, has filed an Application for Certification (AFC) with the California Energy Commission to develop three 250 megawatt (nominal) solar power tower plants (750 megawatts combined) in California’s Riverside County. The power towers, which will be located primarily on land owned by the Metropolitan Water District, will collectively [...]
Two days before a looming deadline, the U.S. Energy Department finalized two loan guarantees for solar power plants in Nevada and Arizona. One deal, a $737 million loan guarantee for Solar Reserve LLC, paves the way for construction of the 110-megawatt Crescent Dunes Solar Energy facility, which will use an array of mirrors to focus [...]
Saint-Gobain announced today that construction work on Saint-Gobain Solar’s mirror line for solar thermal power stations has begun. Located in Goodyear, Ariz., (near Phoenix), the plant will be Saint-Gobain Solar’s first manufacturing facility in North America. The facility will supply primarily the domestic market and will eventually produce millions of square feet of solar mirrors [...]
eSolar, a leading developer of modular, scalable concentrating solar thermal power technology, announced today that in addition to its licensing agreement with GE Energy, GE Â has closed a strategic investment in the company. As part of the deal Paul Browning, president and CEO of Thermal Products, for GE Energy, will join the eSolar board of [...]
Project to create thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions in state and local tax revenue BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading solar thermal technology company, has filed an Application for Certification (AFC) with the California Energy Commission for the development of two 250 megawatt (nominal) solar power plants (500 megawatts combined) in California’s Inyo County. [...]
SolarReserve, a U.S. developer of large-scale solar power projects, today announced an amendment to the Development Agreement between Nye County and Tonopah Solar Energy LLC, SolarReserve’s affiliate, that will require 90 percent of the construction workforce come from Nevada residents for the company’s 110 megawatt Crescent Dunes Solar Energy project located in Nye County, Nevada. [...]
OAKLAND, Calif.-BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading solar thermal technology company, today launched a new solar thermal power plant solution for utilities. Called SolarPLUSTM, the offering combines BrightSource’s high-efficiency LPT power tower solar thermal technology with proven two-tank molten salt storage. “We’re thrilled to offer a solution that can meet the low-cost and real time power [...]
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