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BrightSource Energy Selects Bechtel to Build a 440 Mwatt Thermal Solar Generation Plant
BrightSource (Oakland, CA) September 9, 2009 – BrightSource Energy, Inc., developer of large-scale solar thermal energy plants, announced today that it has selected Bechtel, the world’s premier engineering, construction and project management firm, as the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC)…
Alpine Sun Tower and eSolar to Build 92 mWatts of Solar Thermal
eSolar Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced recently that it has entered into an agreement with Alpine SunTower, LLC, a subsidiary of NRG Energy Inc. for 92 megawatts (MW) of renewable, solar thermal power. The Alpine SunTower project features eSolar’s…
A Solar Heating System that Installs Inside Your Home
A Duluth, Minnesota inventor and entrepreneur has come up with an idea to use solar energy to produce solar heat inside your home to reduce your energy bill. This novel and inexpensive solar heating systems is simple and easy to install. It is…
By 2050 Solar Thermal Energy Could Provide 47% of the UK's Low-Temp demand
Brussels, 25 September 2009. Since heat accounts for nearly half of the overall energy demand in the European Union, the solar thermal industry will no doubt make a significant contribution to the 20% target of renewable energy set by the…
Incentives paid up-front based on estimated first year kWh displacement.
Public acceptance of solar water heating around the world is increasing as people work to reduce their energy bills and reduce their carbon footprints. Solar heating has been widely used on small scale for many years in countries such as…
Torresol Energy secures US$760 Million loan for 2 Thermal Solar Plants.
Torresol Energy, a joint venture between Masdar, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mubadala Development Company, and SENER, a leading international multidiscipline engineering company, with offices in Abu Dhabi, has secured US$760 million project finance loans for the construction of its…
NREL green-lights Phase II of development of triple junction GaAs 42% efficiency “triathlon” concentrator cells
Spire Corporation, a global solar company providing capital equipment and turnkey production lines to manufacture photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules, announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Spire Semiconductor, LLC, has successfully completed Phase I of its High Efficiency Concentrator Solar…
Constant large scale electricity from solar thermal energy
Solar thermal energy has the potential to supply a significant fraction of the world’s energy needs if we learn to harness it effectively and to store its energy for use when we have times of high demand. An Australian company has…
New Report Outlines the Future of Solar Thermal Energy in the U.S.
Policy Support Re-ignites the US Solar Thermal Market Summary The US has good future prospects for solar thermal energy. Many solar thermal plants with high installed capacities are currently under construction and others are in various stages of planning. California…