Crete: 38MW Solar Electricity License Granted From Greek Regulatory Agency NUR-MOH SA has announced that it received a 38 megawatt (MW) Electricity Generation License for a solar power plant on the island of Crete in Greece from the Greek regulatory agency. The Crete Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant will be the first in Europe to [...]
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 [...]
Hybrid power plant with 150 MW capacity will use solar thermal energy and natural gas and can be operated around the clock In Kuraymat, roughly 100 kilometers south of Cairo, a major solar-thermal power plant is going into operation for the first time in Egypt. The solar field consists of parabolic trough collectors with an [...]
Solergy, Inc., developers of the next generation of high concentrated photovoltaic technology (HCPV), have announced at a press conference in Milan the their launch and introduction of two unique flagship products: Solergy CPV and Solergy Cogen CPV ™.
SolarReserve, a U.S. developer of utility-scale solar power projects, has received a final decision from the California Energy Commission (CEC) for construction and operation of the Rice Solar Energy Project. This approval, the key state-level permit for the 150-megawatt solar power tower project, was achieved in the record time of less than 13 months from [...]
A California Energy Commission siting committee is recommending approval of the planned Palen Solar Power Thermal Project in Riverside County. The project is a concentrating solar trough thermal electric generating facility with two adjacent and independent units of 250 megawatts each for a total capacity of 500 megawatts. The proposed project would use parabolic trough [...]
Foster Wheeler AG is a global engineering and construction contractor and power equipment supplier which prides itself on delivering technically advanced, reliable facilities and equipment. The company announced today that a subsidiary of its Global Power Group has been awarded a contract to design and supply a solar steam generator system (preheaters, drum-type evaporators, and [...]
Skyline Solar, a manufacturer of solar arrays, has announced that the US Patent and Trademark Office, or USPTO, has issued the company two patents which cover key aspects of Skyline Solar’s architecture. The first of the new patents (US 7,820,906), also approved through the Green Technology Pilot Program, covers the Skyline Solar HGS system’s unique [...]
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SkyFuel announced today that their ReflecTech® Mirror Film, used in the SkyTrough® parabolic trough concentrating solar collector, has surpassed the 20 year weathering mark, demonstrating long term durability against ultraviolet (UV) radiation. The testing, which was conducted in the National Renewable Energy Lab’s (NREL) Ultra-Accelerated Weathering Station (UAWS), is ongoing and is expected to reach [...]
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The New York Times this weekend has an article discussing the recent boom type expanion of Utility scale solar thermal electric generating plant in the state of California. This technology is getting a boost from the federal government allowing solar thermal companies to have acess to the capital funding required to biuld and launch these [...]
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Sopogy, Inc., a leader in micro Concentrated Solar Power (MicroCSP(TM)) technology, will be supplying its proprietary solar thermal collectors for a five-megawatt MicroCSP plant, which broke ground on October 27 in the Kalaeloa district of Oahu — marking the largest CSP project in Hawaii. The Kalaeloa Solar One project is a partnership between the State [...]
SolFocus and Vision Electro Mechanical Company to Build the Largest Solar Power Plant of its Kind in Saudi Arabia Project is milestone for the commercialization of concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) technology in the Middle East Bahra, Saudi Arabia and Mountain View, Calif., October 25, 2010 – SolFocus, the leading developer of Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) solar systems, [...]
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