On a much larger scale, solar-thermal power plants employ various techniques to ... are also very expensive and require a lot of land area to collect the sun's energy at rates useful to lots ...

A once cutting-edge solar energy power plant in the Mojave Desert that looks like something out of a science fiction movie may be facing its last days, according to its builder and largest customer.

By 2030, the solar park is expected to cover an area of about 58,000 hectares. The world's largest solar power plant ever built in a desert is currently under construction on the outskirts of Dalat.

Damian Bettles, DP Energy’s North America head of development, said the Saamis project was a model for ... energy storage plant to deal with the variability of solar power production as the ...