solar concentrator
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 […]
BERKELEY, Calif. California Unions for Reliable Energy (“CURE”), a coalition of unions whose members promote the development of power plants in an environmentally responsible manner, has announced today a new collaboration with K Road Calico Solar, LLC (“K Road Calico”), an independent utility-scale solar project in San Bernardino County, California. “PLAs ensure that projects like […]
SolarBeam Concentrator – a parabolic reflector that concentrates sunlight onto a small absorber to create solar energy. The reflector tracks the sun to create solar hot water. It consists of 16 polished anodized aluminum petals that are resistant to salt spray and acid rain. The system is designed for extreme weather conditions, including wind velocity […]
HyperSolar Announces Initial Breakthrough Design to Dramatically Increase the Power Output of Solar Cell Company Models Show Magnification of 300% HyperSolar, Inc., the developer of a new technology to magnify the power of the Sun to significantly increase the power output of solar cells, today announced that new design models show potential magnification of 300%.
SkyFuel’s Parabolic Trough Garners Prize for Technology Innovation SkyFuel took its place among the concentrating solar power (CSP) industry’s leaders last week when CSP Today named SkyTrough® the winner of the 2010 “CSP Commercialized Technology Innovation of the Year” award. Announced at last week’s International CSP Summit in Seville, the award is intended to highlight […]
Imperial Valley Solar Project First Utility Scale Project to Receive Both California Energy Commission and Bureau of Land Management Approval Tessera Solar’s Imperial Valley Solar Project became the first utility scale solar power project to be approved by both the state and federal governments, with the issuance today of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) […]
Oct 22 2010 | Posted in Solar Thermal Dish,U.S. | Read More » 
New thermoelectric device design and materials technology can boost solar thermal energy conversion efficiency. Nextreme Thermal Solutions, the leader in microscale thermal and power management products for the electronics industry, today announced that it has been awarded a United States patent for the design of an innovative solar thermoelectric generator (solar TEG) for high-temperature solar […]
Sep 24 2010 | Posted in Solar Thermal,Technology | Read More »
If you were able to purchase a low cost highly reliable solar thermal electric system for your business or as homeowner you were able to purchase clean energy at the same or lower prices than from your local coal plant would you? Well the technology to make this a reality is coming closer as enterprising […]
Sep 17 2010 | Posted in Residential Solar | Read More »
Solar thermal energy is a technology for harnessing solar energy for thermal energy (heat). Solar thermal collectors are defined by the USA Energy Information Administration as low-, medium-, or high-temperature collectors. Low temperature collectors are flat plates generally used to heat swimming pools. Medium-temperature collectors are also usually flat plates but are used for creating […]
Sep 16 2010 | Posted in Technology | Read More »
Six “transformational” energy research and development projects to have been selected to receive $9.6 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. These projects round out the selections made by the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The projects include two solar research initiatives. Teledyne Scientific & Imaging LLC, based in Thousand […]
Sep 16 2010 | Posted in Technology | Read More »
Stanford engineers have figured out how to simultaneously use the light and heat of the sun to generate electricity in a way that could make solar power production more than twice as efficient as existing methods and potentially cheap enough to compete with oil. Unlike photovoltaic technology currently used in solar panels – which becomes […]
Aug 3 2010 | Posted in Headline,Solar Thermal,Technology | Read More »
Capstone Turbine Corporation , one of the world’s leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, announced recently that HelioFocus and Capstone successfully demonstrated a product converting sunlight to electricity with a solar receiver driving a microturbine. The demonstration was conducted with a Capstone C65 microturbine by HelioFocus and Capstone on a fixed optical tower using […]
LadyBug Resource Group has announced that its subsidiary, New Solar Electricity Corporation, is developing a novel solar concentrator called “Solar Tracer,” which will use concentrating solar power technology to capture energy from the sun and transfer it in the form of heat to run steam turbine generators. The company believes that its Solar Tracer will […]
