California is keeping the Ivanpah solar plant operating due to “reliability” and the state’s “green” energy mandates, despite ...

The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, a concentrated solar thermal plant in the Mojave Desert near Ivanpah, California and Primm, Nevada, is one of the largest solar energy systems in the world. It uses ...

This UFO shaped plant in Spain is attracting much attention as it is a 2,650 towering structure able to generate solar power ...

HOUSTON & SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vast Solar Pty Ltd, a renewable energy company specializing in concentrated solar power (CSP) energy systems that generate zero-carbon, utility-scale electricity and ...

Concentrating solar power, which has been around for decades, is one of the most promising techniques being tried today to make solar electricity more cost effective. The concept is simply to focus ...

“Concentrating solar power (CSP) plants,” explains the Solar Energy Industries Association, “use mirrors to concentrate the sun's energy to drive traditional steam turbines or engines that create ...

Masdar City is a city project in Abu Dhabi. Masdar, the Abu Dhabi Government’s energy company, goals for a sustainable city that uses renewable energy and to be the world’s first zero-carbon, zero ...

Concentrated solar power facilities are often large, sprawling across desert landscapes or the futuristic California of Blade Runner 2049. But smaller plants could offer a clean energy option for ...

Omani researchers have compared the performance of PV and concentrated solar power (CSP) in terms of energy generation intensity and the effective use of land at low latitudes near the Tropic of ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

The United Arab Emirates could play host to the world’s largest concentrated solar power facility, also known as CSP. Saudi Arabian firm ACWA Power is the primary team behind a giant facility near ...

With the price of photovoltaics having plunged dramatically, solar is likely to become a major contributor to the electrical generating mix in many countries. But the intermittent nature of ...