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As part of this years Concentrated Solar Power Summit 2010 you will get the chance to visit one of the most groundbreaking CSP sites in the world. Allowing you to see for yourself, up close and personal some of today’s most ground-breaking CSP technology that’s actually in the ground and producing power. The conference runs [...] Chromasun recently announced that it is collaborating with the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA) to showcase their MCT technology at the subsidiary Abu Dhabi Distribution Company (ADDC) Distribution Management Center. The Center provides management and direct control of ADDC processes and activities. The building is presently air-conditioned by conventional electrically driven screw type chillers [...] AREVA announced today the completion of the 100% acquisition of U.S.-based Ausra, Inc., a leading provider of large-scale concentrated solar power solutions for electricity generation and industrial steam production. The Ausra acquisition, announced in early February, serves as the platform for building AREVA’s global concentrated solar power business. AREVA is a pioneer in its strategy of [...] 3TIER® has announced the completion of its REmapping the World™ initiative, which was launched in March 2008 to address the biggest barrier to global renewable energy adoption—the lack of reliable information regarding resource potential and availability. With today’s release of a global solar map and dataset, the company has completed its unprecedented goal of identifying and [...] 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 [...] BrightSource Energy, Inc., developer of utility-scale solar thermal power plants, announced this week that the U.S. Department of Energy has conditionally committed to provide $1.37 billion in loan guarantees to support the financing of BrightSource’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. The commitment to provide loan guarantees marks a key milestone in the development of the Ivanpah project, California’s [...] A Seattle Washington based company has announced the release of a new suite of global Solar (and wind)Prospecting Tools that will change the way renewable energy professionals decide where to develop renewable resources by providing immediate access to seasonal variability data, which is critical to understanding a site’s energy potential. “3TIER has delivered the next generation of [...] Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced that it has contracted with subsidiaries of NextEra Energy Resources and Abengoa Solar for delivery of a total of 500 megawatts (MW) of clean solar power. The agreements are among several solar deals recently signed by the utility with independent developers for a total of 830 MW. NextEra’s proposed [...] eSolar, a leading producer of modular, scalable concentrating solar thermal power technology, and Ferrostaal AG, one of the world’s largest power plant developers, announced today a partnership to deploy turnkey solar power plants in countries including Spain, the United Arab Emirates, and South Africa. Under the agreement, eSolar will provide solar field and receiver technology, [...] Cleveland, Ohio, and Berkeley, California. – Solar Trust of America, LLC, an integrated industrial solar solutions company, has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Solar Millennium, LLC, has begun testing the advanced parabolic trough solar radiation collector technology called HelioTrough at an existing solar power plant in the southwestern United States. The testing is designed to [...] New Mexico-based Sundrop Fuels recently announced that theyhave developed a hybrid solar-biomass refinery. The company plans to use concentrated solar power (CSP) to heat plant scraps and wood chips to create a biofuel. That biofuel can then be used to create gasoline or diesel fuel. Instead of using mirrors to reflect sunlight and to heat water [...] American Solar, Inc. has announced it has won a contract to install an 11,000-square-foot solar heating roof at the Army Research Lab in Adelphi, MD. This solar roof is the centerpiece of a re-roof and solar heating upgrade for an office building. When completed, the system will be the largest installed solar air-heating roof in [...] |
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