Towering 450 feet above the California desertscape, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating Facility was once, not so long ago, a monument to man’s ingenuity. When it was dedicated in 2014 (a ...

The electricity it makes is expensive, its technology has been superseded, and it's incinerating thousands of birds ...

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

Concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies harness solar radiation through reflective devices to generate high-temperature heat, which is subsequently converted to electricity. Widely deployed ...

PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Heliogen, Inc. (the “Company” or “Heliogen”), a leading provider of AI-enabled concentrated solar power, today announced it has finalized a $39 million award from ...

The Ivanpah solar plant, off the Interstate 15, just across the state line from Primm, will continue to operate after the California Public Utilities Commission denied Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s ...

Solar collectors and absorbers convert solar radiation into thermal energy, playing a crucial role in meeting global heating demands across various sectors.

The 3-plant, $9 billion Noor-Ouarzazate CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) complex called NOOR will reduce carbon emissions by 760,000 tons a year Media reports reveal that the first phase of the largest ...

The renewable energy platform, consisting of a CST field and Thermal Storage unit, covers roughly 5,540 square meters on site, and will contain the largest installation of parabolic mirrors combined ...

Scientists at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico are testing a new method of asteroid tracking using the heliostat mirrors at concentrated solar farms. Though these mirrors usually sit ...