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 [...]
EnviroMission Limited has appointed Arup to take Solar Tower power station development forward in the USA! “Arup has been engaged by EnviroMission to provide executive engineering services for the EnviroMission Solar Tower Concept project proposed for Arizona, USA,” Arup Principal, Building Services, and Arup project spokesperson, Ken Stickland said in confirming EnviroMission’s appointment of Arup. [...]
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New Energy Technologies, Inc. announced today that Florida Solar Energy Center , a leading American certification and testing laboratory for solar products and equipment, has validated the Company’s power production modeling calculations for its novel, SolarWindow(TM) technology. SolarWindow(TM) is the first-of-its-kind see-thru glass window capable of generating electricity, and able to outperform conventional rooftop solar [...]
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 [...]
New Report from ABS Energy Research Reveals that Despite the Economic Downturn, Thermal Solar remains strong and ABS Predicts Strong Growth in 2011 & 2012 and a spike in GW capacity world-wide. London, UK – The newly released 4th Edition of the Solar Thermal Report from ABS Energy Research states that despite the global downturn, [...]
Will India be a bigger concentrated solar thermal power than China? Last year there was very little talk of India becoming one of the biggest markets for CSP. Today the question on everybody’s lips is: Will India be a bigger CSP power than China? As the founder of CSP Today and organizer of the 1st [...]
David Cameron has made a U-turn on a pre-election promise to reward those who had solar panels installed before a designated date set-out in the launch of the Feed-in Tariff (FIT), allowing them to receive the same subsidies for electricity generation as those who installed solar panels after the date. Solar Power Grants, the comprehensive [...]
An affordable housing development in Brecon has been dubbed super-green due to its eco-friendly use of air source heat pumps and solar thermal energy technology. The development meets Level 4 of the Code for Sustainable Development. Various options were weighed up including exhaust air heat pumps, considered too big for the compact apartments, and individual [...]
Cogenra Solar, a provider of distributed solar cogeneration systems and renewable energy service solutions, has been awarded a $1.5 million research grant from the California Solar Initiative Research, Development, Deployment and Demonstration Program. The funding will support the accelerated development and commercial deployment of Cogenra’s proprietary solar cogeneration technology and will finance the company’s demonstration [...]
FAFCO Inc., a solar thermal manufacturer, has introduced the new 500 Series system solar heating platform. The 500 Series system platform builds upon FAFCO’s polymer solar thermal technology to deliver energy-saving performance in an advanced system design, the company says. The FAFCO 500 Series system features a custom-designed digital solar controller, heat exchanger and pumps [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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Torresol Energy Launches Commercial Operations of Twin Solar Thermal Plants in Spain
Solar Alliance and SEIA Merge to Establish U.S. Solar policies at the State Level
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