Latest Solar Power product news
Solar Trust of America's subsidiary, Solar Millennium LLC, has begun testing its advanced parabolic trough solar radiation collector technology, called HelioTrough, at an existing solar power plant in the southwestern United States. The testing is designed to assess performance efficiency under commercial operating conditions before being deployed at proposed solar thermal energy power plants throughout the world.
Developed by The Solar Millennium Group’s technology subsidiary, Flagsol GmbH, ... [more]
AES Energy Storage and A123 Systems have announced the commercial operation of a 12 MW frequency regulation and spinning reserve project at AES Gener’s Los Andes substation in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The project will help improve the reliability of the electric grid in Northern Chile and uses A123 Systems' Hybrid Ancillary Power Units (Hybrid-APU™), a lithium-ion battery system. AES Energy Storage and AES Gener are both subsidiaries of The AES Corporation.
AES Energy Storage and A123 Syste... [more]
Citizens for Pennsylvania’s Future (PennFuture) has praised the House Environmental and Energy Committee for passing HB 80, the Green Jobs/Clean Energy Bill, which will increase Pennsylvania’s supply of solar and wind energy, and move the state into the forefront in significantly reducing carbon pollution from coal-fired power plants.
“This bill is another great leap forward in our drive to make energy cleaner and safer,” said Jan Jarrett, president and CEO of PennFuture. “It will more than d... [more]
Biofuels Power Corporation has closed its previously announced purchase of the decommissioned H.O. Clarke Electric Generating Station located five miles from downtown Houston. The purchase includes 79 acres of land at the intersection of Main Street and Hiram Clarke Road, together with all infrastructure, equipment, buildings and other improvements.
The H.O. Clarke property is adjacent to a 500 MW switchyard operated by CenterPoint Energy and has ready access to the same Texas ERCOT grid that... [more]
Hydrogen produced from renewable sources is a potential solution to future energy problems, providing a carbon-free fuel.
UPS Systems plc has installed a fuel cell within the University of Glamorgan’s Renewable Hydrogen Research and Demonstration Centre at Baglan Energy Park, South Wales. The new Centre was initiated with EU funding, and now has long- term funding guaranteed by the University. The Centre will demonstrate the viability of hydrogen production from a range of indigenous renewa... [more]
According to a new report from Lux Research, "Alternative Power and Energy Storage State of the Market Q4 2008: Weaving the $65 Billion Power Web", the power grid today is wasteful, costly, inefficient and dumb – and ill-equipped to address many pressing energy issues, from the need to focus on climate change and carbon cost, to the demand for high reliability. However, the advent of distributed generation, distributed storage, and distributed intelligence will change power infrastructure into a... [more]
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