Sentences with phrase «scale solar thermal systems»

While accounting for only a handful of total U.S. solar installations, the development of utility - scale solar thermal systems that concentrate the sun's energy to drive a traditional turbine using very high temperatures have also seen significant growth in recent years.

Not exact matches

Generating electricity from solar - thermal energy, however, usually requires a large - scale system, with an array of mirrors that reflect and concentrate sunlight onto tanks or pipes filled with water or other liquids.

Funding from Future Energy Source Ltd. has allowed Dr Khan and his team to set up labs in Poole, which include a scale model of the solar thermal system — an invaluable tool for testing.

Meanwhile, a group of recent and current MIT engineering students is working to bring solar thermal to Africa with an off - grid system that operates on a much smaller scale.

It was «a marvellous old machine», says Christian Holter, chief executive of SOLID, a company in Graz, Austria, that specializes in large - scale solar - thermal cooling and heating systems.

Solar - thermal systems, which turn sunlight into heat and then into electricity, are more efficient than photovoltaics — because they can use the entire solar spectrum, they can reach efficiencies of 30 percent — but they are impossible to scale down to rooftop Solar - thermal systems, which turn sunlight into heat and then into electricity, are more efficient than photovoltaics — because they can use the entire solar spectrum, they can reach efficiencies of 30 percent — but they are impossible to scale down to rooftop solar spectrum, they can reach efficiencies of 30 percent — but they are impossible to scale down to rooftop size.

The United States has slightly more than 20,000 megawatts (MW) of solar generating capacity, which includes utility - scale solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal installations, as well as distributed generation solar PV systems, also known as rooftop solar.

Utility - scale solar makes up more than two - thirds of California's solar capacity, with utility - scale solar PV making up 55 % and solar thermal systems such as concentrating solar making up another 13 %.

All but 18 states have some utility - scale solar PV capacity, but only three states (California, Arizona, and Nevada) have utility - scale solar thermal resources, as these systems often require large, contiguous tracts of land in arid environments.

This, given the climate change requirements, and technology cost forecasts for wind and solar, the emergence of battery storage and home management systems, as well as solar thermal plus storage at utility scale, not to mention the fuel cost of coal and gas, and the financing risk attached to that, seems an extraordinary prediction.

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(Oakland, CA) September 9, 2009 - BrightSource Energy, Inc., developer of large - scale solar thermal energy plants, announced today that it has selected Bechtel, the world's premier engineering, construction and project management firm, as the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the Ivanpah Solar Electricity Generating Sysolar thermal energy plants, announced today that it has selected Bechtel, the world's premier engineering, construction and project management firm, as the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the Ivanpah Solar Electricity Generating SySolar Electricity Generating System.

(OAKLAND, CA) August 6, 2010 — BrightSource Energy, Inc., developer of utility - scale solar thermal power plants, announced today that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for BrightSource's Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Sysolar thermal power plants, announced today that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for BrightSource's Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating SySolar Electric Generating System.