PISMO BEACH, Calif., Aug. 22, 2012. For decades it’s been known that heliostats – sun tracking mirrors – have the potential to provide low-cost heat and light for buildings and even for industrial processes. Unfortunately, commercial heliostats have been plagued by reliability problems, high cost, and fragile mirrors, not to mention tricky-to-use control systems. And [...]
Aug 22 2012 | Posted in
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The Absolicon Hybrid Solar PV Solar Thermal Parabolic Unit The X10 is a solar collector that simultaneously generates the two most used forms of energy in the daily life: heat and electricity. This is possible as it combines a photovoltaic panel and a solar thermal collector in the same module. The Collector It consists [...]
Located in New South Wales, Ausra Pty Limited has developed and is expanding the world’s first solar thermal power collector system for coalâ€fired power augmentation. Ausra’s Compact Linear Fresnal Reflector (CLFR) technology began testing operations at the company’s Liddell Solar Thermal Station in 2004, initially generating one megawatt equivalent (MW) of solarâ€generated steam. The solar [...]
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Precision tracking for maximum capture of solar energy – There is a significant advantage with both solar PV and solar thermal systems to positioning the solar panel such that it is always receiving the maximum amount of solar energy. Ensuring that the incidence rays of the sun are always 90 degrees to the surface of [...]
Skyline Solar, a manufacturer of High Gain Solar (HGS) arrays for commercial, industrial, government and utility markets, today announced the first commercial installation of its High Gain Solar (HGS) 1000 system in a new municipal solar power plant in the tiny desert town of Nipton, Calif. The 80-kilowatt Nipton plant is an upgradeable solar power [...]
Ausra expands global market reach Mountain View, CA—September 30, 2009—Ausra, Inc. has been selected as the solar steam boiler supplier for the proposed 100-megawatt JOAN1 concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) project currently under development in Ma’an, Jordan. The selection of Ausra is an important milestone in the development of JOAN1, which will also include a [...]
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