WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers have shown how to modify commercially available silicon wafers into a structure that efficiently absorbs solar energy and withstands the high temperatures needed for ...

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 ...

How did this country manage to build the largest concentrated solar power plant that generates electricity even at night? And ...

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Vertically aligned carbon nanotubes have been the gold standard in light absorption, capable of trapping around 99 percent of ...

Cool Earth Solar, a Livermore, Calif. company that says it has developed a new solar concentration technology, has raised $750,000 in a seed round of financing, VentureWire reports (sub required). The ...

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 ...

While electricity generation has been the star of the energy transition show, about half of the world’s energy consumption is to make heat. Many industrial processes rely on fossil fuels to reach high ...

Sunlight is a great source of energy, but it rarely gets hot enough to fry an egg, let alone melt steel. Heliogen aims to change that with its high-tech concentrated solar technique, and has raised ...

A company that uses concentrated sunlight to provide low-cost solar energy announced a SPAC deal Wednesday. The SPAC Deal: Heliogen announced a merger with Athena Technology Acquisition Corp ATHN ...