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The Pasadena, Calif. - based specialist in solar thermal technology has landed a deal to license technology to Penglai Electric, which in turn will build 2 gigawatts of solar thermal power plants by 2021.

Not exact matches

That solar - thermal power plant — built by the BrightSource precursor known as Luz — still pumps out 354 megawatts of power from the sun at full capacity.

With World Bank backing, Abengoa is breaking ground on the first hybrid solar - thermal and natural gas burning power plants in Morocco and Algeria, online by 2010.

Not sure what you mean by «rate» and «commercially available solar» covers a lot of territory from 5 KW residential rooftop installations to gigawatt - class utility - scale power plants (both PV and thermal)-- but the cost of electricity from rooftop PV is approaching parity with the retail cost of grid electricity, and that's the point at which distributed PV will explode like cell phones and personal computers did.

«Experts project that by 2010 the number of solar water heaters installed in China will equal the thermal equivalent of the electrical capacity of 40 large nuclear power plants.»

I think that in a sustainable energy economy of the future, most electricity will be generated, stored and used locally, and large centralized generating stations (which by then will be predominantly wind turbine farms and concentrating solar thermal power plants, coal and nuclear having been phased out) will play a much smaller role.

Among other points, Mr. Romm says the «fourth generation» form of nuclear power discussed by Dr. Hansen has no greater potential benefits than other technologies (solar - thermal power plants, for example) that were not mentioned but that could be deployed at large scale much more quickly.

Google today said it would invest $ 168 million into the Ivanpah solar thermal power plant being erected by BrightSource Energy, as the melodrama of solar thermal approaches its boiling climax.

For example, the Crescent Dunes solar thermal power tower plant near Tonopah, Nevada that is expected to come on line by the end of 2013 will include 10 hours of thermal energy storage.

Several large, new solar thermal power plants are expected to begin commercial operation by the end of 2013, more than doubling the solar thermal generating capacity in the United States.

In the last decade, new needs have been evidenced simultaneously with the creation of an incipient industry around solar thermal power plants and new applications of solar thermal systems to other industries, as cited by our previous mini symposium.

Overall in 2030, J&D envision 50 % of global power demand will be met by wind, 20 % by concentrated solar thermal power, 14 % by solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants, 6 % by solar PV on rooftops, 4 % each by geothermal and hydroelectric, and 1 % each from waves and tides.

«By using our glass and advanced material expertise to make solar thermal power plants more efficient and reliable, SCHOTT is part of the reason why communities in sunbelt areas around the world are increasingly exploring the use of solar thermalpower to satisfy their growing energy needs.»

Built by Acciona Solar Power, the 64 - MW solar thermal power plant covers 400 aSolar Power, the 64 - MW solar thermal power plant covers 400 aPower, the 64 - MW solar thermal power plant covers 400 asolar thermal power plant covers 400 apower plant covers 400 acres.

This research follows a pair of studies by the International Energy Agency foreseeing that solar power — in a combination of photovoltaic and solar thermal plants — could supply more than a quarter of the world's electricity by 2050.

China is heavily reliant on coal burning thermal power plants, but reportedly has set a generating target of 20 million kilowatts from renewable energy sources such as hydropower, solar power and wind power by 2020.

And by 2050 IEA expects combined solar PV and Solar Thermal Plants (STE) to exceed 30 percent of global energy production, becoming the world's largest single power sosolar PV and Solar Thermal Plants (STE) to exceed 30 percent of global energy production, becoming the world's largest single power soSolar Thermal Plants (STE) to exceed 30 percent of global energy production, becoming the world's largest single power source.

Greenpeace and ESTIA have outlined a worldwide plan to develop 600,000 megawatts of solar thermal power plant capacity by 2040.

If we assume that each meter provides 0.7 thermal kilowatts of power, then we are looking at a world solar thermal capacity by 2020 of 1,100 thermal gigawatts, the equivalent of 690 coal - fired power plants.

In addition, solar cell installations and the construction of solar thermal and geothermal power plants are all growing by leaps and bounds.

Solar reactors don't include the large power block of a CSP plant, which is a full thermal power station producing electricity (except with heat supplied by the sun).

Experts project that by 2010 the number of solar water heaters installed in China will equal the thermal equivalent of electrical capacity of 40 large nuclear power plants.

PG&E agreed to buy 553 megawatts of power from Solel's Mojave Solar Park, expected to be constructed in California by 2011, and 177 megawatts of power from Ausra, expected to be generated at another California plant starting in 2010 (see FPL and PG&E Back Solar - Thermal and Ausra to Build 177 - Megawatt Solar - Thermal Plplant starting in 2010 (see FPL and PG&E Back Solar - Thermal and Ausra to Build 177 - Megawatt Solar - Thermal PlantPlant).

There are non zero probabilities that by 2030 we might have some or all of (i) thin film solar cells with 40 % efficiency installed for $ 1 / watt, (ii) «batteries» with at least five times the capacity of lead acid and one fifth of the weight, (iii) boring old solar thermal plants with no drama plugging away, (iv) there may be some one using solar cells in space sending power to earth as radio frequency energy.

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Add that to that the fact the electricity from solar thermal plants — which produce energy at 13 - 17 cents per kilowatt - hour (kWh)-- is competitively priced but still higher than power generated by natural gas, and you may question how many solar thermal plants will be built in the near future.

BrightSource's LPT 550 Technology BrightSource «s LPT 550 solar thermal technology produces electricity the same way as traditional power plants — by creating high temperature steam to turn a turbine.