
Tokyo – Konica Minolta Opto, Inc. (Konica Minolta) announced today that the company is showcasing its newly developed film mirror for Concentrated Solar Power generation (CSP) as reference exhibit in the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization’s (NEDO) and Japan Cooperation Center for the Middle East’s booths at the World Future Energy Summit 2012 [...]

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 [...]

Duralux Solar Coatings, a show stopper at GlassBuild America 2011 The new range of solar coatings by the Fenzi Group is bound to steal the scene at the Atlanta-based show taking stage from 12 to 14 September. The complete range of Duralux Solar Coatings for solar mirrors, developed and tested to meet the highest durability [...]
Google Inc has developed a prototype for a new mirror technology that could cut by half the cost of building a solar thermal plant, the company’s green energy czar said last week. Bill Weihl said that if development and testing go well, he could see the product being ready in one to three years. In [...]