A Finnish-Swedish consortium has designed a hybrid system that uses photovoltaics and solar thermal energy separately to provide steam to industrial facilities. The PV unit is coupled to a sand-based ...

The 100-megawatt solar thermal power plant, “Shams 1”, was officially launched in Abu Dhabi last week. Heart of the plant is a steam turbine which has been supplied by MAN Diesel & Turbo and will be ...

The Saudi Arabian Mining Company will buy industrial solar-generated steam from GlassPoint. Saudi Arabia will host New York-based GlassPoint, which is building the world’s biggest solar thermal plant ...

BOULDER CITY, Nev.--The Nevada Solar One power plant is essentially a tea kettle, just one that happens to take up 300 acres and can provide enough power for 15,000 homes. The plant, which will start ...

Aera Energy LLC plans to spend about $250 million to build a solar steam and solar electricity project to assist with enhanced oil recovery at Belridge oil field in Kern County, Calif., San Joaquin ...

Two different technological developments were announced this week for concentrated solar power technology. In Australia, a consortium led by Vast Solar filed a patent for a new tank design for thermal ...

Howe Industries has submitted a design for a solar-powered steam rocket engine for propelling CubeSats to the National Science Foundation (NSF). With only two moving parts, the ThermaSat engine uses a ...

Solar thermal energy could create steam for operations at an Oman oilfield. GlassPoint Solar has finished the first block of what will be a 1,021 megawatt (MW) solar plant, Miraah, for Petroleum ...

Autoclaves used to sterilize medical instruments tools typically require a steady supply of 125°C pressurized steam. This usually comes from electrical or fuel-powered boilers. But in many rural areas ...

Switch to solar with a system built for you. Solar thermal energy is the process of concentrating sunlight to generate heat, which can be used to generate electricity or heat a home, its water supply ...