SkyFuel's High Performance Parabolic Trough Click here for high-resolution version ARVADA, CO--(Marketwire - Oct 4, 2012) - SkyFuel, Inc. has been awarded a contract to supply high performance ...

Abengoa Solar in early May began commercial operation of Solnova 1, the company’s first 50-MW parabolic trough plant. Covering 980,000 square feet with mirrors requiring an area totaling 280 acres ...

Parabolic trough technology has a success story spanning more than 40 years. As early as 1984, the first commercial power plants with parabolic trough collectors went into operation in California. In ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A mirror alignment measurement device, invented by Rich Diver, a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories, may soon make one of the most popular solar collector systems, ...

DENVER - Abengoa Solar is building large-scale parabolic trough solar installations in Arizona, at a facility operated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and in New York, for piano maker Steinway ...

Two identical 50-MW parabolic trough plants with thermal storage in Cadiz, in the south of Spain, began operating this January. The Valle 1 and Valle 2 projects (Figure 7) built by Torresol Energy—a ...

Parabolic troughs and dry-cooled towers deliver similar value for concentrating solar power plants, despite different solar profiles, a new report has found. Parabolic troughs and dry-cooled towers ...

Concentrating solar power is one of the most cost-effective ways to produce electricity from the sun. Can a cheaper design break into the pack of solar thermal upstarts? Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

In the race to power America's homes, solar companies are employing a variety of designs, some of which incorporate vast collections of photovoltaic cells that turn the sun's energy directly into ...

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have invented a new way to make solar collector systems more energy efficient. The theoretical overlay photographic (TOP) technology developed at Sandia ...