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LighManufacturing, a California based company, has been granted a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a system that uses concentrated solar thermal energy for molding...
12 March 2014
The Energy Research Knowledge Centre has released its first Thematic Research Summary on Concentrating Solar Power (CSP), aimed at promoting awareness about the current state of CSP research in...
10 March 2014
Switzerland is not the kind of country you would think about to deploy Concentrated Solar Power systems, but the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), located in the idyllic northern city of Villigen, is...
25 February 2014
The Energy Ministry has recently released a draft proposal for the parameters to estimate the 'reasonable return' or 'profitability' to be applied to all renewable energy generators, eliminating the...
18 February 2014
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 Moniz, but, apart from this 'marketing failure', this...
18 February 2014
The EU funded project HITECO has welcomed ENEA as new member of the consortium researchng and developing a new solar collector concept for high temperature operations in CSP applications. The project...
18 February 2014
After some days of rumours about the status of Ivanpah, we can say it has officially come online. NRG Solar, the company which operates the plant has released an official press statement to announce...
13 February 2014
The findings of a new report just released by NREL may be a bit surprising as it finds similar value for two very diferent Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) technologies. Tower and torugh plants are...
12 February 2014
US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has announced $30 million in funding to 12 ARPA-E projects to develop transformational hybrid solar energy technologies that deliver cost-effective power when the sun...
10 February 2014
Concentrating Solar Power is a cost-effective solution to increase Australia's power grid that could save up to $1 billion in network investments, according to results shown in a recently released...
07 February 2014
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