Solar energy projects on federal lands in Arizona and other Western states have been put on hold by the Bush administration for two years. The pause has been put in place to give researchers a chance to study the environmental impact of such projects.
This has come while there are 125 outstanding applications from solar energy […]
Scientists are constantly looking for new ways to improve existing technologies. Solar energy suffers from quite a few drawbacks including the amount of energy that is lost simply through the inefficiencies of the collection method. Another obvious problem with solar energy is that the sun will only be available during the daylight hours.
Two studies conducted […]
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 it will […]
A proposed concentrating solar power (CSP) project in San Luis Obispo County, California is being planned by solar-thermal power developer Ausra Inc. The project will construct the Carrizo Energy Solar Farm(CESF), a 177MW power plant using Ausra’s Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR) technology.
Ausra has filed an Application for Certification with the California Energy Commission and approval […]
The construction of a new solar photovoltaic power plant has just been completed in Cuenca, Spain. The 9.5MW Solar Villar De Canas 2 Project has been completed by Yingli Green Energy and Control y Montages Industriales.
The project took 7 months to complete and was brought on-line on February 28, 2008.
To read the full press release, […]
Spanish engineering company Iberdrola Ingeniería y Construcción (IBERINCO) has won the contract for the construction of the second phase of the Abertura FV solar photovoltaic plant in the Spanish province of Cáceres. The company had already secured the contract to construct phase 1 of Abertura FV which comprises the first 10MW and this second contract […]
