Led by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the COMBO-CFB project has developed a new innovative concept to increase solar energy production in the energy system. According to this rese... Read more
Masdar Institute scientists have published breakthrough research that could change the way solar energy is produced. They hope to drive concentrated solar power technology to compete with tr... Read more
Engineers at Oregon State University have identified a new approach for the storage of concentrated solar thermal energy, to reduce its cost and make it more practical for wider use. Concept... Read more
“Solar energy systems can satisfy much more of our hunger for electricity, at not much more cost than what we currently have,” Concentrating solar power (CSP) could supply a larg... Read more
A revolutionary University of Colorado Boulder toilet fueled by the sun that is being developed to help some of the 2.5 billion people around the world lacking safe and sustainable sanitatio... Read more
Viable solar energy has been a long-sought-after goal, but with new and affordable technologies, we might soon be able to make the switch We have come a long way in taming the sun’s chaotic... Read more
Falling particle receiver technology is attractive because it can cost-effectively capture and store heat at higher temperatures without breaking down, which is an issue for conventional mol... Read more
Engineers and industry agree that although challenges abound in utility-scale solar in the sunniest places on Earth, we have the technology to go big in the desert The vast and glittering Iv... Read more
PNNL’s concentrating solar power system reduces greenhouse emissions — at a price that’s competitive with fossil fuel power Natural gas power plants can use about 20 percent less fuel... Read more
Shams 1 is a 100 MW CSP that will power 20,000 UAE homes Thanks to its low latitude and low percentage of cloudy days, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is an ideal location for capturing solar... Read more
Energy storage using the concrete method cost only $0.78 per kilowatt-hour, far below the Department of Energy’s goal of achieving thermal energy storage at a cost of $15 per kilowatt-... Read more
Uses superconducting magnets to strip electrons from high energy plasma jets, and generate power with no moving parts. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today announced the signing of an excl... Read more
He said the efficiency of the invention is more than 100 times greater than the efficiency of any existing solar technology Unknown South Korean inventor Jong-Eun Lee made headlines worldwid... Read more
The world’s only heliostat designed and priced for residential use Some people have a cool, gloomy room in their house that receives little if any direct sunlight, even though i... Read more
The Gemasolar facility represented a significant breakthrough in the global solar energy industry The Gemasolar Concentrated Solar Power facility represented a significant breakthroug... Read more
