During his weekly address to the nation, President Obama highlighted BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System as an example of how the clean energy incentives launched by the administration are creating good jobs and helping the nation achieve its clean energy goals. According to the President: “This month, in the Mojave Desert, a company [...]
Morocco, which plans to invest $9 billion to build five solar power stations, had opted for solar thermal technology for the first unit, to be set up in the southern Ourzazate area, its solar energy agency chief said. The North African country’s government had previously not revealed which solar technology it would choose, with officials [...]
Entech Solar, expects to submit its latest concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) product called SolarVolt(TM) for independent certification testing by September 30, 2010. This milestone is a key step in commercializing the Company’s latest CPV product designed to produce electricity for large commercial, industrial, government and utility applications. This key step places the Company on target to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Solar thermal energy is a technology for harnessing solar energy for thermal energy (heat). Solar thermal collectors are defined by the USA Energy Information Administration as low-, medium-, or high-temperature collectors. Low temperature collectors are flat plates generally used to heat swimming pools. Medium-temperature collectors are also usually flat plates but are used for creating [...]
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Six “transformational” energy research and development projects to have been selected to receive $9.6 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. These projects round out the selections made by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The projects include two solar research initiatives. Teledyne Scientific & Imaging LLC, based in Thousand [...]
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Xtreme Power, a provider of Dynamic Power Resources™ (DPRs) for utility-scale power management and energy storage, today announced a collaboration with developer Castle & Cooke, Inc. to implement a 1.125 MW system on its Lana’i Island La Ola solar farm, the largest solar photovoltaic (PV) energy farm in Hawaii. Effectively incorporating solar power is essential [...]
Interest in renewable energy and particularly Solar Thermal Power Technology is growing around the world as consumers, industry and governments strive to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels. Concern over global climate change is maybe less of a driving force than environmental stewardship ; thank you British Petroleum for an unforgettable example of how not [...]
One of the major initiatives to increase the viability and efficiency of not only solar thermal heating systems but also solar thermal electric , photovoltaic and wind is a method to store the energy when the source is no longer available. Solar Thermal systems have an advantage in that the energy can be stored relatively [...]
BrightSource Energy, Inc., developer of utility-scale solar thermal power plants, announced today that it has signed a series of contracts with Riley Power Inc., a subsidiary of Babcock Power Inc., for three boilers to be operated at its 392-megawatt Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California’s Mojave Desert. The Ivanpah project will couple Riley’s solar [...]
Chromasun and SunWater Solar Partner to Install California’s First MCT Solar Cooling Project at Santa Clara University’s 2007 Solar Decathlon House Collaboration Results in Unique Solar Air Conditioning Demonstration in the United States SAN JOSE, CA– Industrial rooftop solar solutions company Chromasun today announced that it has partnered with SunWater Solar, a solar thermal technology [...]
Are you interested in Concentrated Solar Power engineering? If so, you may be interested to know that when 50% of plant costs are accounted for through the Balance of Plant, guaranteeing maximum plant output through effective engineering is absolutely crucial. As part of the effort to promote effective CSP yield optimization engineering, CSP Today have [...]
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