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SolarReserve's rendering of Crescent Dunes CSP plant
Spain's based company BATZ Energy, has announced it has received an order to supply sandwich panels for heliostats to be placed in SolarReserve's...
01 October 2012
On September 21, LA Times published a story about large scale solar projects in California, tthe title was “Taxpayers, ratepayers will fund...
24 September 2012
AREVA to test molten salt as HTF in Fresnel systems
AREVA Solar is collaborating with Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) on a new concentrated solar thermal power installation with thermal energy...
12 September 2012
The 9-State, vertical turbine pump A worker tightens the final bolts securing the pump is lowered into the Molten Salt Test motor to the thrust bearing and verticle turbine pump Loop at Sandia National Laboratories
The pump was delivered and installed in the Molten Salt Test Loop (MSTL) system at Sandia National Laboratories’ National Solar Thermal Test Facility...
12 September 2012
'Particles receivers' is a new line of research, perhaps less known than others, but not less interesting. In fact, DOE's SunShot Initiative awarded...
30 August 2012
Parabolic trough Photo:Sandia Nationale Laboratories archive
Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy of the US, announced new investments totaling $10 M for two university-led projects to advance innovative...
30 August 2012
Genesis Solar, the NextEra Energy concentrated solar thermal plant under construction in Riverside County, has had to deal with a storm that brought...
23 August 2012
SkyFuel has published three new Technical Papers with data and results about its concentrated solar thermal power products, SkyTrough Solar...
14 August 2012
The Federal Register has published a notice from the Indian Affairs Bureau to announce the intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)...
09 August 2012
National Clean Energy Summit 5.0
The fifth edition of the National Clean Energy Summit (NCES 5.0) has been held last August 7 in Las Vegas, Nevada, hosted by Center for American...
09 August 2012

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