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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
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
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
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...
13 February 2014
Similar value for tower and parabolic trough CSP technologies, according to NREL
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 (...
12 February 2014
ARPA-E
US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has announced $30 million in funding to 12 ARPA-E projects to develop transformational hybrid solar energy...
10 February 2014

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