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 ...

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 ...

ARVADA, CO--(Marketwired - Jan 22, 2014) - SkyFuel's parabolic trough concentrating solar collector was installed in a trial of WaterFX's new Aqua4™ solar thermal desalination technology. The single ...

China completed its first large commercial-scale parabolic-trough concentrated solar power (CSP) plant at the end of June. The 50-MW Delingha project built by CGN New Energy, a subsidiary of China ...

WASHINGTON, USA: Abengoa, the international company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainability in the energy and environment sectors, has received a nearly $2 million competitive ...

• Solar-thermal plants must concentrate energy on the small focal band or efficiency drops off dramatically. • New structural framing is strong, precise, and economical to assemble. The challenge that ...