Solar thermal power plants switching technology to take advantage of falling PV prices – San Jose Mercury News
Three years ago, renewable energy developers laid plans to populate the American Southwest with massive solar thermal power plants, which concentrate the sun's rays to boil water and create steam to turn turbines that generate electricity. But as the projects went through lengthy permitting and environmental reviews, the price of photovoltaic solar panels plummeted because of a global oversupply driven by a glut of low-cost panels from China.
Spanish Solar Plant Produces Electricity for 24 Hours Straight
While Americans celebrated U.S. history on the Fourth of July yesterday, a company in Spain celebrated an historic moment for...
Transparent Photovoltaic Cells Turn Windows Into Solar Panels
A new class of transparent photovoltaic cells has been developed that can turn an ordinary windowpane into a solar panel without impeding the passage of visible light. The cells could one day transform skyscrapers into giant solar collectors, said Richard Lunt, one of the researchers on the project.
New York’s Solar Thermal Plans
By unveiling a solar heating and cooling programme that could create 25,000 new green jobs, generate US$2.6 billion in revenue and see 2 GW of new solar thermal capacity installed in the state over the next decade, New York has revealed its ambition to become America’s national leader in solar heating and cooling. Thermal storage is also an area that, if effectively solved, would allow for additional advancement of the industry
Solar plane completes historic 24-hour flight
PAYERNE, Switzerland — An experimental solar-powered plane landed safely Thursday after completing its first 24-hour test flight, proving that the...
Morocco’s new Solar Project to Generate 2000MWs
Morocco is a North African country with no oil reserves. But nature has endowed this country with another bounty i.e....
Energy Grid Could Make Offshore Wind Power More Reliable
Scientists believe that natural resources can meet the energy needs of the entire human population. Wind energy too has huge...
Salt Water: The Tangy Taste of Energy Freedom
A visitor to Eastern Europe after the fall of communism would have been awestruck by the massive posters touting Winston...
Scientists Harvest Electricity from Living Algae Cells
Stanford University scientists have created a tiny electrode that can harness an electric current from a single algae cell, a...
California Proposes First Renewable Energy Storage Requirements
California Attorney General Jerry Brown has announced a completely new kind of renewable energy legislation, introduced by State Assembly member...