Greenvolts, a Berkeley start-up that is developing solar concentration technology, has raised $250,000 in seed capital and is now looking to raise its first round of venture capital, it told ...

As their name suggests, concentrated solar power (CSP) systems concentrate light from the sun onto a small area, where it is converted to heat. Although this heat is sufficient for electricity ...

Researchers developed a solar collector with a dielectric Bragg mirror, optimizing energy conversion by separating sunlight ...

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The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, a concentrated solar thermal plant in the Mojave Desert near Ivanpah, California and Primm, Nevada, is one of the largest solar energy systems in the world. It uses ...