Swedish company Azelio has developed small-scale concentrated solar power systems that may be ideal for bringing electrical power to remote areas that have no access to a traditional electricity grid.
The World Bank announced on Monday that it had approved $125 million in additional financing for the development and construction of the Noor-Midelt I and II solar power plants in Morocco, a combination solar concentrated solar power (CSP) and PV project which will have a total capacity of between 600 to 800 megawatts (MW).
As if concentrating solar power isn’t complicated enough already, now they have to go and add more bells and whistles? Glad you asked! CleanTechnica has been contacting some of the funded projects to get the insider perspective on the Energy Department’s high temperature strategy. In this installment, researchers John Shingledecker and Cara Libby of EPRI, the Electric Power Research Institute graciously took some time for a phone interview.
Sandia National Laboratories got the green light to pursue a “falling particle” system for ramping up concentrating solar power to the next level.
Want to get solar panels? First steps: How does solar power work? And how much do solar panels work?
The US Department of Energy is betting on new cutting edge concentrating solar power technology to make renewable energy more efficient and less expensive, but the bigger question is can renewables keep up with the bitcoin explosion?
A new $72 million round of funding for high temperature concentrating solar power R&D means the US nuclear energy sector will face stiff competition for zero emission, baseload electricity generation.
Solar energy has been exploited in direct capacities, for various purposes, well before solar photovoltaic cell and module technology became the most prominent example of “solar energy technology.” Solar stills, solar cookers, sunlight concentrators, solar furnaces, solar fire starters, et cetera, have a long history of use and/or suggestion of use. For instance, there’s fairly good evidence (though disputed by some academics) that solar fire-starters have been in use in Central Asia for a fair many thousands of years.
Reading, seeing, watching, or listening to what passes off as news these days can inevitably bring a sense of doom, uncertainty, and fear (FUD) that some politicians love to bathe in to justify their middlemen role and push whatever pet project they have for their business buddies. But there is also good quality news out there if you let independent journalists communicate what they know best, fields they master for the purpose of bringing more light to important matters.
What actually changed in the world of solar in Q1 2018? Here’s our rundown:
