According to official newspaper reported Monday “China Daily”, the plant will be the first solar thermal power station of 1.5 megawatts of Asia, will begin construction in March and will provide power to 30,000 homes in 2010, as announced by Wang Zhifeng, project leader.
Designed by academia itself, the plant has a projected cost of [...]
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The main systems and solar devices can be classified not only as photothermal and photovoltaic, but also according to its operating temperature. In the photothermal, the temperature is low, intermediate or high. They may be classified according to their use in residential, commercial, countryside or city, to meet the energy demand of the country or [...]
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Google is promoting the research about new materials for the mirrors in solar panels that may reduce the building cost in solar plants. The company launched two years ago a science program to obtain information that allows them to reduce costs in their own solar array, which is the biggest in EEUU destined to [...]
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This is a pioneer town with a new concept of life quality.
They have a subterranean waste transport system with 8km of tubes and more than 350 “mailboxes” installed in public spaces and buildings.
There are more breakthroughs from this city. Nuon, company in command of the energy started the construction of a thermal solar energy to [...]
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The concentration of solar thermal plants will grow exponentially in Spain
As readers are aware through our previous articles on solar towers, they are an innovative way of renewable energy using giant mirrors to concentrate sunlight into a central to produce steam that drives a turbine, and have an incredible potential to produce clean energy. [...]
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When I started studying solar energy, I could not understand anything, I was going to my classes and everything but I did not understand a 100%, it was until I saw how things worked, when built them, that I could understand how solar energy worked.
This same thing happened to me the first time I was [...]
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Solar Hydrogen Energy Corporation Labs has announced that they have developed the most efficient solar energy technology in the world. Although only in the state of a prototype SEHC has developed ways to concentrate sunlight to levels 5,000 times greater than it would normally fall on the Earth’s surface. By focusing the light through a [...]
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The minister of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Miguel Sebastián, has underlined the excellent results of the Spanish companies to export the technology to generate thermal energy, bringing Spain as a reference for clean technology and a great future ahead. As pointed out by the Minister in his speech, “The different thermal technologies are entering commercial [...]
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Canada is one of the countries located farther up north, and is committed to the use of thermal solar energy. Canada is one of the few countries that decisively give more support to thermal than solar photovoltaic energy.
The production of electricity through solar photovoltaic energy turns out to be too expensive for Canadian people, [...]
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The Spanish company Acciona Energy announced an investment of 500 million Euros to build two new solar thermal plants in Cordoba in southern Spain.
Each plant will have capacity to produce 50 megawatts, and together they can supply energy to 75,000 households, or 244 million kWh per year. Come into operation in 2010.
The plants cover an [...]
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