Sentences with phrase «solar thermal plants»

Solar thermal plants rely on direct sunlight to focus the sun's heat energy onto collectors.

Today, molten salt storage is used widely in solar thermal plants in Spain.

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The first commercial concentrated solar thermal plant with molten salt storage - Andasol 1 - was completed in Spain in 2009.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory provides a long list of concentrated solar thermal plants in operation, under construction, and in development, many of which have energy storage systems.

Put a bunch of solar thermal plants in the desert areas of the Southwest and build an «electrical interstate system» with EVDC power cables?

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Founder Bill Gross says the company can produce power from solar thermal plants cheaper than competitors like BrightSource Energy, although BrightSource and others use very similar mirrors and towers.

This weekend, President Obama doled out $ 1.45 billion in loan guarantees for Abengoa's 250 - megawatt solar thermal plant with molten salt storage in Gila Bend, Arizona.

Abengoa Solar is building a 280 MW solar thermal plant in Arizona (the Solana Generating Station), scheduled to begin operation in 2013.

Beijing is planning for Asia's first solar thermal plant to begin operations as early as next year.

Several large plants were phased into operation in California during 2014, including two 550 MW solar photovoltaic plants, Topaz and Desert Sunlight (Phases 1 and 2), as well as the 377 MW Ivanpah (Phases 1, 2, and 3) and the 250 MW Genesis solar thermal plants.

SUNMARK was responsible for the installation and is in charge of maintenance at this massive solar thermal plant which thanks to EU grants is now being expanded.

The US Department of Energy lists several dozen solar thermal plants currently in operation.

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Ivanpah's developers also addressed concerns about the typically high consumption by solar thermal plants by deploying an air - cooling system that they say reduces water use 90 percent compared to conventional technology.

Other ways to harvest sunlight, including solar thermal plants, are already close to competitive but restricted to areas with clear skies most of the year.

The new set of contracts, if approved by the California Public Utilities Commission, now consist of two BrightSource solar thermal plants scheduled to deliver electricity in 2015 and three BrightSource plants with energy storage scheduled to deliver electricity in 2016 and 2017.

The estimated future capital cost figures for various renewable technologies in Table 3 seem to be in order, coming from AETA, except for the assumption that storage would add only 23 % to solar thermal plant cost.

Utility - scale solar generation includes solar photovoltaic (PV) systems as well as a few solar thermal plants.

View a slide show of the new greenhouse - based solar thermal plant The goal is to provide a cleaner and cheaper way to heat up the steam used to melt the field's thicker oils and scour out more of the black gold.

Helped by Spain's sunny climate and generous government subsidies, this has led to the construction of 10 solar thermal plants across the country in the last three years alone.

The NSTTF's primary goal is to provide experimental engineering data for the design, construction, and operation of unique components and systems in proposed solar thermal plants.

Power towers — a solar thermal technology that is both cheaper and more efficient than the familiar parabolic mirror systems — will have their debut in the U.S. today when eSolar shows off its 5 - megawatt Sierra SunTower solar thermal plant in Lancaster, California.

Solar thermal plants also have to contend with another factor: the declining cost of solar power plants built around photovoltaic panels.

The only other dedicated solar thermal plants larger than 10 MW in the United States are the series of Solar Energy Generating System (SEGS) plants built in California in the 1980s and early 1990s and the Nevada Solar One parabolic trough project completed in 2007.

Some areas that are amenable to solar thermal plants enjoy 320 days or more of uninterrupted sun a year, according to Fred Morse, one of the world's foremost experts on thermal.

With countries now investing in a low carbon future, the Danes are leading the way with sustainable wind energy and now with large scale solar thermal plant installations.

We're not sure if the Integrated Solar City will be based on a series of centralized solar thermal plants or many distributed PV rooftop projects — perhaps a combination of both?

Concentrated solar thermal technology is advancing rapidly, and a 19.9 - megawatt solar thermal plant opened in Spain in 2011 (Gemasolar), which stores energy in molten salt for up to 15 hours.

From this, they further predicted the amount of energy that could be produced from weather - related energy sources like onshore and offshore wind turbines, solar photovoltaics on rooftops and in power plants, concentrated solar power plants and solar thermal plants over time.

The 5 - megawatt (MW) micro solar thermal plant will be the state's largest concentrated solar plant.

Control Room Operator of 30 MW parabolic trough solar thermal plant / including a gas fired boiler via hard board

About half of the money, $ 175 billion, would be spent on solar thermal plants, as well as $ 92 billion to upgrade the grid, $ 72 billion on wind turbines, $ 17 billion on off - grid solar, and $ 14 billion on biomass.

In Nevada, the 110 MW Crescent Dunes concentrating solar thermal plant with energy storage came online in 2015 along with several solar PV plants totaling 236 MW.

After many years of little activity, the solar thermal industry completed several large - scale solar thermal plants in 2013 located in Arizona and California totaling 766 MW of capacity, more than doubling the total solar thermal capacity in the United States.

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Algeria, which has already completed its first solar thermal plant, has signed an agreement to supply Germany with solar - generated electricity.

The Ivanpah plant, rated at 392 megawatts, is slated to be the first in a series of large solar thermal plants from BrightSource.