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EAGLESolar to Determine European Solar Power Systems’ Viability

Samantha Joe — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:26:46 +0000

Europe is working on its own version of Google’s Project Sunroof. Project Sunroof is one of Google’s newest services, calculating potential savings when home owners switch their electricity supply to rooftop solar power systems. One of the limiting factors to its popularity, however, is that it is only available for a few cities in the United […]

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Solar Thermal Energy to be 50% Less Expensive by 2020

Leigh Hutchens — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 05:08:41 +0000

According to the director at the Australian Solar Thermal Research Initiative at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), by 2020, solar energy will be 50% cheaper. Due to fossil fuel subsidies and limited hours of solar thermal energy power plants, solar power is still quite expensive. Top researchers at the Australian Solar Thermal […]

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Micro-Turbine Designed to Be Powered by Solar Thermal Energy

Mike Sandru — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:58:27 +0000

Israel-based HelioFocus Ltd and the Californian Capstone Turbine Corporation have announced an agreement to build a micro-turbine that will produce electricity from concentrated solar energy.

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Google Planning to Improve Solar Thermal Plants for Cheap Electricity

Mike Sandru — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:30:45 +0000

Google Inc is planning to develop its own mirror technology for solar energy that could be more cheaper and accessible to the masses, reducing the cost of building solar thermal plants by a quarter or more.

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eSolar SunTower CSP Plant Capable of Generating 5MW of Solar Energy

Mike Sandru — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:42:21 +0000

eSolar, a leading provider of modular, scalable solar thermal power technology has unveiled its 5-megawatt (MW) SunTower power plant, being the first CSP solar tower of its kind in the US.

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How to use solar energy at night or during rainy days

Cristi — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:23:38 +0000

In Granada- Spain, German scientists of Solar Millennium AG, have developed a solar-thermal power plant called Andasol 1. The most interesting thing about this power plant is that it can produce energy even when the sun is not shining: at night, on clouding or even rainy days.

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