All Posts Tagged With: "concentrated solar power plants"

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Technology Spotlight –
Colorado’s First Solar Thermal Installation Integrated With a Coal Plant

“The thing that’s attractive about this is you only have to buy the solar field portion of the plant, which is 50 to 60 percent of the cost of the plant,” says Hank Price, director of technology at Abengoa Solar. “It’s potentially the most cost-effective way to get significant solar power on the grid.”

8Sep2009 | admin | 2 comments | Continued
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NREL, Solar Industry Launch Precision Measuring Network

The improved information gathered by the network — “bankable data” — will be incorporated into computer models to determine the most efficient locations for utility-scale solar energy conversion projects such as concentrated solar power plants.

22Nov2008 | admin | 0 comments | Continued