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SkyFuel heats up solar thermal power race
Even with the teetering economy, solar companies are bullish that tapping free energy from the sun is a solid financial move.
[Latest News] Electricity meter runs backward for NY business
A Hudson Valley business is being recognized by the state for erasing its carbon footprint by producing more power than it consumes...
[Latest News] Army announces 'green' energy strategy
The Army today announced a major bid to go green, the Defense News reports...
[Heat Storage] SolarReserve pulls in cash for solar thermal
The $140 million round will support the development of large-scale power plants using molten salt storage...
[Latest News] California sun outpowers Nevada
Nevada is most valued for what everybody hates most...[Latest News] California sun outpowers Nevada
Nevada is most valued for what everybody hates most...
[Latest News] Germany, Korea eclipse California in solar
It's a sunnier climate for solar equipment makers in Germany and South Korea than in the beach state of California, according to presentations from leaders of the three hot spots competing for global investment from the emerging green tech industry....
[Collectors] Solar power plan about earthly power
The ACT Government's proposal to build a massive solar power station capable of generating electricity for up to 10,000 homes is a big, bold initiative...
[Latest News] The Saudi Arabia of Solar Energy
In the wake of the first Gulf War, the US Army assessed Saudi Arabia's solar energy resource potential in a classified effort to determine how oil fires had affected the region....
[Heat Storage] Sunrise Solar Introduces Solar Bricks that Generate and Store Energy
Sunrise Solar Corp. has announced the introduction of a Solar Light Brick for the integration of solar technologies into traditional construction materials....
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SolarReserve gets permit for solar project totalling 200MW
SolarReserve says it has received its final permit from Saguache (suh-WAHCH') County for two planned 100-megawatt solar thermal energy facilities.
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New Concentrating Solar Power Alliance Launched
Tex Wilkins, Veteran of U.S. Department of Energy Solar Program, to Lead New Organization.
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Novatec Solar to enter South African CSP market
The plants will use the highly efficient and cost-effective ABB-Novatec Solar turnkey concept for CSP plants.
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Brightsource Energy's Power Tower Technology Selected by Sasol for South African Solar Power Plant Design
Leading global energy and chemicals company completing a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for utility-scale solar power plant using BrightSource technology
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Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Market
Wholesale value from concentrated solar power technology should reach an estimated $545 million for 2011 according to a new study by SBI Energy.
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Solutia's Therminol® Heat Transfer Fluid Selected for Two Solar Projects in Spain
The projects are each 50 MW solar power plants with thermal storage located in Extremadura, Spain.
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Iran to Launch 1st Electrical, Thermal, Cooling Power Plant Today
Iran announced on Monday that the country's experts and scientists have managed to build a pilot model of the first power plant in the country which can generate electricity, heat and cold simultaneously.
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Solar Water Heaters – South Africa Preparing For the Double Boom
South Africa has recorded phenomenal growth during the past four years.
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GEMCO Announces First Triple State Thermal Solar Cooling/Heating Project in Canada
The system is designed to address the cooling, heating and domestic hot water needs of the hospital using energy from the sun.
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SolarReservce gets green light on Navada Solar Thermal Project
SolarReserve’s 100 megawatt power contract with NV Energy will utilize innovative energy storage technology developed and manufactured in the United States.
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Novatec Solar’s Fresnel collector generates superheated steam above 500°C
The superheated steam technology uses vacuum absorber tubes being integrated in Novatec Solar´s market proven technology that is currently deployed in all commercial projects of Novatec Solar
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Nanoparticles Improve Solar Collection Efficiency
Using minute graphite particles 1000 times smaller than the width of a human hair, mechanical engineers at Arizona State University hope to boost the efficiency -- and profitability -- of solar power plants.
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SunWater Solar Announces Completion of 28-Collector Solar Thermal System for Housing Authority of the City of Alameda
System will heat water for 65 apartment units and garner a $42,785 CSI-Thermal rebate.
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Hydro wins orders for tubing for solar collectors
Hydro has captured its first aluminium tube orders for solar collectors, and taken the lead in Europe in the introduction of aluminium tubes to the solar thermal industry as a replacement for traditional copper tubes.
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German President Wulff visits Siemens solar receiver production plant in Israel
The Siemens plant produces high-efficiency solar receivers, which are key components of solar thermal power plants.
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Solar Thermal Use "Heats Up" in Colder Climes
NEW YORK, NY, Mar 12, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Many people associate solar energy with hot regions like Arizona and Southern California.
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Wagner & Co Supplies Solar Know How to Brewery in Uganda
It seems paradox: solar thermal energy use is most common in the countries of the North with the least solar irradiation, while in tropical countries water often is still heated electrically or by means of boilers. -
FLS Energy Begins Construction on Significant Solar Thermal Project in Eastern North Carolina
Solar shines at Prestage Foods turkey processing this Thanksgiving season.
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New Energy Capital Invests In FLS Energy, Inc., the Nation’s Largest Installer of Commercial Solar Hot Water Systems
The investment will create approximately 30 new jobs related to the manufacture and installation of SHW and PV equipment.
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India tech breakthrough in solar thermal cooling system
Gurgaon, an industrial hub in India, witnessed the inauguration of world’s most efficient solar thermal cooling system at the Solar Energy Centre there Friday.
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Siemens wins first solar receivers order for Indian solar power plant
Siemens Energy has been awarded an order to supply UVAC 2010 (Universal Vacuum Air Collector) solar receivers for a parabolic trough power plant to be built in Rajasthan, India.
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Torresol Energy Launches Commercial Operations of Twin Solar Thermal Plants in Spain
Valle 1 and Valle 2 will produce 320 GWh per year.
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SENER designs and supplies the solar fields in five new thermosolar projects in Spain
SENER has clinched several contracts for the design and supply of solar fields in Spain: the Aste 1A and Aste 1B, Termosolar Soluz Guzmán, Consol-Orellana and La Africana plants.
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SkyFuel Enters Chinese Solar Market with Parabolic Trough
SkyFuel has signed an agreement for the construction of a 50 MWe concentrating solar power (CSP) plant at a site near Huludao in China.
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Siemens to build molten salt solar thermal test facility in Portugal
The aim of the research project led by Siemens is to enhance the economy and reliability of parabolic-trough power plants.
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- Solar Trust Tests Next Generation Collector Technology
- The Next Solar Frontier: Producing More Energy with Hybrid PV/Thermal Systems
- Sunrise Solar Introduces Solar Bricks that Generate and Store Energy
- SkyFuel’s Parabolic Trough Shines in NREL Tests
- Your Solar Home Inc. Introduces SolarSheat(R) Hot Water
Roger Wallis
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08/09/2010 09:29:42
this is peak efficiency, right ?
not average annual
Henry
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28/08/2010 19:44:48
Solar is very good source, but the Light-Electricity convert rate is too low usual below 20%, One day if the rate grow to same as ...
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21/08/2010 15:50:22
It will be interesting to find out what are new results in the performance of these solar systems. I'm sure the future belongs to solar ...
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21/08/2010 15:49:18
It will be interesting to find out what are new results in the performance of these solar systems. I'm sure the future belongs to solar ...
John Hollick
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19/07/2010 18:04:59
Excellent article on solar AIR heating and PV. This may be the way of the future.
This article appeared under the solar WATER heating index.
Perhaps ...
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