Solar Fields Two and Three, 4 September 2013A view to the northwest of the Ivanpah Solar project's Solar Fields Two and Three. By the end of 2013, the project will deliver 377 megawatts of electricity ...

Researchers have developed a new type of solar power system that can produce both electricity and heat at the same time—an innovation that could help industries capture carbon dioxide (CO₂) from their ...

A new database contains the results of exposure experiments on solar reflectors conducted over more than four decades. The publicly available Solar Mirror Materials Database (SMMD) will contain ...

They used a simple gold mirror and adding a dielectric layer above the gold will improve our efficiency to 36 percent. Thermophotovoltaic conversion utilizes thermal radiation to generate electricity ...

The first images from the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) of the National Science Foundation (NSF) were published end of January: They show unprecedented details of the sun’s surface and ...

Silicon panels pretty much rule the solar energy sector, with more than 90% of panels manufactured using the versatile element. This is not by chance; Si PV cells are cheap, robust, relatively easy to ...

The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is preparing to unveil a database containing the results of exposure experiments on solar reflectors conducted over more ...