Equity Financing Complete for 53.5 MW Multi-Site Solar Project in New Mexico

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Wells Fargo & Company announced this week that equity financing is complete for a 53.5 megawatt (MW) multi-site solar project in New Mexico. The 53.5MW solar project, one of largest photovoltaic solar power projects in the U.S., was fully activated in December. The multi-site solar project was made possible through a power purchase agreement between [...]

Electrical Utilities Search for Break Throughs in Optimizing Concentrated Solar Power Output

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Utilities looking for industry input on Concentrated Solar Power Yield Optimization Engineering ahead of CSP Today’s Denver Conference A crucial area of discussion when it comes to concentrated solar power Plant output engineering is the impact that CSP output optimization has on utility agreements, PPAs and ongoing LCOE, and the subsequent impact on the perception [...]

Residential Solar Combined Heat & Power unit Uses a Specialized Stirling Engine

Cool Energy, Inc., a developer of clean energy heat and power generating systems, today announced that Xcel Energy will be providing research and analytical support for the first planned pilot field installation of the SolarFlow(R) System in a commercial building located in Boulder, Colorado. The SolarFlow System is a combined heat and power (CHP) generation [...]

1st of its kind – Hybrid Solar-Coal with Parabolic-trough Solar Thermal technology

Xcel Energy is now operating a first-of-its-kind demonstration of a hybrid solar-coal approach, using solar thermal parabolic-trough technology integrated with a coal-fired power plant. The project, located at Xcel Energy’s Cameo Generating Station near Grand Junction, Colo., is designed to increase the plant’s efficiency, decrease the use of coal, test the commercial viability of concentrating [...]

Should We Make Solar Energy Dirty?

Abengoa Solar has announced that they intend to build the first Solar Thermal installation integrated with a Coal Plant owned by Xcel Energy. The demonstration project is intended to increase power plant efficiency while lowering CO2 emissions. This is the first time that solar energy will be used to increase the efficiency and lower the [...]

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