This alien-like field of mirrors in the desert was once the future of solar energy. It’s closing after just 11 years
From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...
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China plans to build enormous solar array in space — and it could collect more energy in a year than 'all the oil on Earth'
Despite recent advances in the cheapness and efficiency of solar power, the technology still faces some fundamental limitations — such as intermittent cloud cover and most of the atmosphere ...
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Solar thermal developer ticks off final technology milestone
Vast Renewables has successfully completed large-scale testing of a concentrated solar thermal power receiver tower destined ...
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Batteries won't cut it—we need solar thermal technology to get us through the night
Australia's transition to renewables is gathering speed, but there's a looming problem with storage. We will need much more ...
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Turkey offers $85 million to support Kalyon’s module capacity expansion
Kalyon Solar Technologies has secured TRY 1.6 billion ... Kalyon inaugurated its manufacturing facility in August 2020. It is part of a wider project involving the construction of a 1 GW solar ...