This alien-like field of mirrors in the desert was once the future of solar energy. It’s closing after just 11 years
From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...
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Batteries won't cut it—we need solar thermal technology to get us through the night
Australia's transition to renewables is gathering speed, but there's a looming problem with storage. We will need much more ...
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How the world's largest concentrated solar power project works
Modern technologies create opportunities for any state to switch to renewable sources of cheap energy from water, wind, or the sun. But for this to happen, of course, efforts must be made and several ...
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11 years after opening, Nevada solar plant faces bleak future
or concentrated solar, in which nearly 350,000 computer-controlled mirrors roughly the size of a garage door reflect sunlight ...
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Once an engineering marvel, two-thirds of this concentrated solar power plant will shut down after a California utility pulled two of its PPAs
The utility figured that adding concentrated solar power would diversify PG&E’s energy portfolio while supporting new technologies. The tech had proven to work on a smaller scale in Europe and ...
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Solar thermal developer ticks off final technology milestone
Vast Renewables has successfully completed large-scale testing of a concentrated solar thermal power receiver tower destined ...