The solar market has been dominated by traditional rooftop and utility-scale photovoltaic systems for years now, systems reliant solely upon solar panels to be situated in stationary positions to capture the most sunlight possible. However, according to information company IHS, the solar industry may soon see a new technological-player develop … [continued]
This article first appeared on RenewEconomy Silex Systems has announced the practical completion of its 1.5MW concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar power demonstration plant in Mildura, Victoria, with all 40 of the facility’s CPV dishes connected and now feeding power into the national grid. Silex subsidiary Solar Systems made the announcement … [continued]
Sunny South Africa wouldn’t be a bad place to put a big solar park, and the government there knows it. The South African government is interested in building a 5-gigawatt solar park on land in its Northern Cape and has hired Texas-based Fluor Corporation to make a plan for how to … [continued]
In far less time than it will take BP to drill the relief wells needed to permanently stop the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a community college has installed the largest concentrating solar array in the U.S. It took only two months of construction to install the six-acre array, … [continued]
