Some of the best ideas, when it comes to the introduction of relatively new technology comes when it solves a couple of problems at the same time. The idea to cover the Narmada branch canal in Gujurat, India with solar panels is an especially clever one. Not only will the solar power generated from the [...] Read more »
Solar Energy | Liberty County Solar Energy Project
An agreement has been entered into by National Solar Power and Liberty County, Florida to construct a 100MW solar power plant. The facility will consist of up to five 200-acre plots with each capable of producing up to 20MW of solar power. The expectation is that each plot will cost US$70 million to develop resulting [...] Read more »
Advantages Of Solar Power
Solar energy is still a developing energy with technological advances continually being made to make it more cost efficient and more abundant. Currently it is still a form of electricity that is only used by a minority of households, either as self-contained rooftop installations or on the grid direct from a solar power plant. There [...] Read more »
Benefits of Solar Energy
In order to justify why there is so much technological and monetary effort going into solar power and the development of new solar energy facilities it might be worthwhile going over a few of the significant benefits that are achieved from using solar energy. Some of these may seem obvious, some may be debatable and [...] Read more »
Solar Energy | Shams 1 CSP Plant
A major Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plant is being planned for development by Masdar, the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company. Named Shams1, the CSP plant will have a maximum capacity of 100MW and is expected to cost between $400 – $500 million. The technology used to produce the electricity will be parabolic trough technology and [...] Read more »
Solar Energy | Davidson County Solar Farm
A new photovoltaic solar farm has recently begun producing electricity near Lexington, North Carolina. The Davidson County Solar Farm is a project that has been developed by SunEdison and Golden Crescent Investment Group and they have entered a 20 year agreement with Duke Energy who will buy the electricity from the farm. The solar energy [...] Read more »
Solar Energy | Stirling Energy Systems Solar Power Plant, California
For what it’s worth I will provide details of the proposed solar power plant that is planned to be built near Victorville, California by Stirling Energy Systems. This is a project that was originally announced back in August 2005 as a thermal solar power plant with a capacity of 500MW, a significant contribution to electricity [...] Read more »
Solar Energy | Is Space Solar Energy Worth It?
We have heard the arguments against solar power in the past, particularly the one about how much more expensive it is compared to electricity generated by more traditional fossil fuels. Well how does $1 billion per megawatt sound? Since the 1960s the prospect of generating solar energy from space has been on the drawing board [...] Read more »
Solar Energy | Fort Irwin Solar Power Plant
In October 2008 it was announced that a solar power plant was planned at the Fort Irwin base in the Mojave Desert in California. This installation is to have a capacity of 500MW, originally generated from thermal solar power. Further news has just been released regarding the project and a couple of development partners have [...] Read more »
Solar Energy | Kimberlina CSP Plant
A new concentrating solar power (CSP) plant has recently gone into operation near Bakersfield, California. The Kimberlina solar power plant has a 5MW capacity and although the size appears small, the facility is significant for solar developer Ausra because it will act as a demonstration of the technology that will be used for the Carrizo [...] Read more »