Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure has exercised its right to buy out the tax equity investor in the 280-MW Solana concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in Arizona. The company says in its financial report for the second quarter of 2020 that it made use of the option on July 17. It [...]
The Solana Concentrated Solar Power plant near Gila Bend has turned in a weak performance in its first year-and-a-half in operation, but officials say it's about to show a dramatic improvement.
Located 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, Mojave Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) generates clean electricity to power approximately 90,000 households in California.
Solana is the first commercial Concentrated Solar Power Plant in the United States to use this new thermal energy storage technology.
Solana is the largest concentrated solar power parabolic trough plant in the world.
"The energy technology that impressed me the most at Sandia was the 'Sunshine to Petrol' project," said chemistry and biochemistry doctoral student Joseph Laureanti.
Almost a million huge gleaming, curved mirrors and thermal energy storage covering 3 square miles at the Solana plant are collecting 280 megawatts of concentrated solar power in a unique way.
Molten salt thermal energy storage, the technology that extends a concentrated solar power station’s daily operating life by up to six hours, is gathering momentum in the United States.
Unlike traditional photovoltaic systems, which directly convert the sun’s energy to electricity by liberating electrons, these new plants use “concentrated solar power,” or CSP.
When work began in 2010 in Arizona on one of the world's largest Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSP) plants, a Warren Township company was there.
The largest contributor to APS’s increased capacity this year is the Solana Concentrated Solar power (CSP) Station near Gila Bend.
Solana is the first concentrated solar power plant that uses a mixture of salt and water to store electricity for peak demand periods like after 5 p.m.
Spain's Abengoa gave members of the U.S. media a tour of its Solana concentrating solar power (CSP) plant in Arizona, the largest parabolic trough plant in the world.
