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Enel to build first CSP-Geothermal hybrid plant in Nevada
Enel Green Power North America has announced the works have started at the Stillwater geothermal plant, in Nevada, US, to add a CSP facility to...
02 April 2014
PEMY (Pre‐Ecopoiesis Mars Yard) by Sonila Kadillari. Image courtesy of The Bartlett School of Architecture
How to test rover vehicles and other equipments before sending them to Mars? The only way is to simulate the red planet conditions as much as we can...
02 April 2014
Canada's Rackam has partnered with TÜV Rheinland to develop a test bench for testing performance and efficiency of solar thermal collectors. The...
02 April 2014
Cranfield University gains relevance for the CSP research
The UK may not be the best choice to deploy a Concentrated Solar Power plant, but when it comes to research new and innovative CSP systems, it's not...
19 March 2014
Arizona State University and AORA Solar partner to enhance the Solar Tulip CSP system
AORA Solar has agreed to install the first ever Solar Tulip hybrid generating facility in the United States on university land, and Arizona State...
18 March 2014
Human waste, faeces, excrements, ordure, dejection, poo, whatever you call it, it's always a disgusting topic to talk about, but far from making...
18 March 2014
LighManufacturing, a California based company, has been granted a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a system that uses...
12 March 2014
Thematic Research Summary on Concentrating Solar Power (CSP)
The Energy Research Knowledge Centre has released its first Thematic Research Summary on Concentrating Solar Power (CSP), aimed at promoting...
10 March 2014
The researchers Christian Wieckert and Nikolaos Tzouganatos during work at the solar reactor. Photo: Paul Scherrer Institute/Markus Fischer.
Switzerland is not the kind of country you would think about to deploy Concentrated Solar Power systems, but the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI),...
25 February 2014
Crescent Dunes, 'the other CSP tower', enters commisioning phase
It's not been a good idea to release a story like this just at the same time the Ivanpah CSP plant was being dedicated by Energy Secretary Ernst...
18 February 2014

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