Solar-heated homes integrate thermal energy storage, improving efficiency and reducing environmental impact through ...

Ivanpah Solar is a 386-megawatt concentrating solar power plant with three units that cover 3,500 acres on the California side of the Mojave Desert. Concentrating solar uses mirrors on the ground ...

When it was dedicated in 2014 (a ceremonious occasion attended by a whos-who list that included the active Energy Secretary), the 392-megawatt (MW) Mojave Desert project was the world’s largest ...

By incorporating concentrated solar radiation, the apparatus increases reaction rates and reduces the quantity of photocatalyst material required, offering the potential for a scalable, sustainable, ...

Not far from Las Vegas, the Crescent Dunes concentrating solar power plant looks like something ... it will support the “large-scale and industrialized development of solar thermal power.” The idea is ...

Located in Postmasburg, Northern Cape Province, South Africa, it is one of the most massive renewable energy investment projects in the country and attained its first partial grid synchronisation in ...

The micrometer-scale III-V (alloys made from elements in groups III and V of the periodic table) solar cell is intended for applications in concentrated photovoltaics (CPV). III–V materials are ...

“This study aims to compare how well different designs of combined photovoltaic-thermal collectors work in electricity and heat production,” they said. “They were compared under conditions ...