Texas startup Janta Power has secured $5.5 million in seed funding to expand its next-generation solar power towers, a vertical alternative to flat solar farms. The funding round was led by MaC ...

Molten Salt Solar Power Tower Technology is an advanced concentrated solar power (CSP) system that utilises molten salt as both a heat transfer and storage medium. In these systems, a central receiver ...

The California Public Utilities Commission rejected a contract termination agreement between the Pacific Gas Electric Company ...

Northwest Germany may not appear on many maps as an ideal location for solar energy, but the town of Jà¼lich plays host to a 1.5 MW solar power tower that’s being used as much for research as it is as ...

- All Three Units of 392 megawatt Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System Now Delivering Solar Power to California’s Electric Grid - NIPTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NRG), ...

Concentrating solar power (CSP) plants focus the sun's thermal energy to produce steam that drives a turbine to generate electricity. Now, Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) is testing the ...

A solar tower capable of withstanding Category 1 hurricane winds (120 kmh to 153 kmh) has been shown to be commercially viable. Three Sixty Solar, a Canadian commercial and utility-scale solar ...

In theory, it's possible to create jet fuel from nothing more than water, CO2, and energy from the sun, but doing so outside of the laboratory has proved challenging. Now researchers have created the ...