The electricity it makes is expensive, its technology has been superseded, and it's incinerating thousands of birds ...

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 ...

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 (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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Space-based solar power advances with microwave and laser transmission, orbital assembly, and cost reductions, aiming for ...

Researchers developed a solar collector with a dielectric Bragg mirror, optimizing energy conversion by separating sunlight ...

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 ...