Technology advances every day. Recently new properties in a material have been discovered by the physicists at the Rutgers University, which will provide cheaper and better solar cells for the environment friendly power solutions. The discovery will very soon appear in the new issue of Nature Materials journal. It talks about packets of light that [...] Read more »
Solar Energy | Palen Solar Power Project, California
Another proposed solar power plant planned for California is coming closer to gaining approval with the California Energy Commission siting committee recommending approval of the Palen Solar Power Project. This solar energy project will result in a 500MW facility to be located around 10 miles east of Desert Center which is about halfway between Indio [...] Read more »
Solar Energy | Maharashtra Photovoltaic Solar Project, India
An Indian infrastructure company Lanco Infratech Ltd, under its subsidiary Lanco Solar, along with Germany’s Juwi Holdings have won the contract to build a 75MW solar photovoltaic power plant in the Dhule district of the western Indian state of Maharashtra. This will be the largest solar photovoltaic power plant in the country. The power plant [...] Read more »
Solar Energy | Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, Nevada
A conditional loan of $737 million has been offered by the US Department of Energy to SolarReserve LLC through its wholly owned subsidiary Tonopah Solar Energy, LLC for the construction of what would be the world’s largest solar power plant that is heated by molten salt. The project has been given the name the Crescent [...] Read more »
The Role of Nanotechnology In Solar Energy Development
One of the crucial factors that is holding back the progress of solar energy produced through photovoltaic cells is the efficiency of the conversion of sunlight to electricity. This, combined with the cost of producing traditional silicon solar cells, continues to ensure the production of solar power using solar cells is relatively expensive and an [...] Read more »
Solar Energy | Space Based Solar Power Is Possible
One of the primary drawbacks to using solar energy as a source of electricity is the unreliability of the harvesting process. The intensity of the sun varies from place to place and from one season to the other in the same place on earth. Also, there is the obvious drawback that the sun is not [...] Read more »
Solar Energy | Ashalim, Negev Desert Solar Power Plant
The Israeli National Infrastructures Ministry has been working towards delivering 2,000 megawatts of renewable energy by the year 2020. Central to this promise has been a planned 250MW solar power station near Ashalim in the western Negev desert. The Israeli Government has officially called for tenders from energy companies with the understanding that the power [...] Read more »
Solar Energy | Blythe Solar Power Project
There has been a major new solar energy development approved by the US government with the green light given to what will become among the largest solar power plants in the world. Approval has been given by the government for a solar power plant in the Mojave Desert of monumental proportions. The Blythe Solar Power [...] Read more »
Solar Energy | Imperial Valley Solar Project
The project that was once known as the SES Solar Two Project was renamed in February 2010 to the Imperial Valley Solar Project. The company SES Solar Two LLC was also renamed at the same time to Imperial Valley Solar LLC. The project that is being developed under this name is a 709MW solar power [...] Read more »
Solar Energy | Yingli PV Solar Power Plant, Beijing
Solar products maker Yingli Green Energy Holding Co has announced an agreement that they have made with a local Beijing government body to construct a 10MW photovoltaic power plant. The construction is planned to begin in the second half of 2009. A new company is going to be created, under the framework of the agreement, [...] Read more »