Solar panels have gotten so cheap that the plant, born of an old attempt at harnessing the power of the sun, appears to be obsolete.
Solar thermal energy is a little different. Instead of using solar panels, this new plant uses its thousands of mirrors — ...
EU-funded researchers are looking to hot air to overcome the supply and demand issues faced by solar energy and ease the clean energy transition.By Michael AllenAs the world shifts toward renewable ...
CSP system that combines hybrid panels and thermal storage to deliver uninterrupted solar power. The technology uses optical ...
The Ivanpah solar plant, a large-scale concentrated solar power project, is set to close due to the cost-effectiveness of photovoltaic solar panels. The plant's closure has ignited a political ...
A four-year research project by several German universities is exploring the release of molecules involved in molecular solar thermal (MOST) energy storage. They plan to modify the molecules to ...
Power plant operator and co-owner NRG Energy Inc. is preparing to close down part of its Ivanpah Solar Power Plant in San Bernardino County, Calif., a little more than 11 years after it began ...
When I stood on a platform to see the vast array of heliostats in the Gobi Desert near Dunhuang, where 12,000 mirrors track ...
A private company will be allowed to set up these projects on an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) model for a ...
An international research collaboration has now explored the effects of multiple thermal ... solar cells. Perovskites are a wide class of materials with semiconducting properties suitable for ...
The effect was first described in France in 1839 but not developed as a modern, energy-producing system until 1954 by Bells Labs. Solar Power Towers (Thermal solar plants): A large field of flat ...