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Worlds biggest solar thermal power plant fired up in California
2013-09-25 19:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The 3,500-acre Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a startling sight in the Mojave Desert. Three sprawling units each contain a circular array of mirrors reflecting rays from the sun toward a 459-foot central tower. Water in the tower is heated by the rays to produce steam, which spins turbines and - voila - electricity is produced. It all seems a bit magical, but as of Tuesday, the world`s largest solar thermal power plant began feeding energy into a power grid for the first time. How...
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NREL Releases New Roadmap to Reducing Solar PV Soft Costs by 2020
2013-09-25 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
"Non-Hardware ('Soft') Cost-Reduction Roadmap for Residential and Small Commercial Solar Photovoltaics, 2013–2020," builds on NREL's ongoing soft-cost benchmarking analysis and charts path to achieve SunShot soft-cost targets of $0.65/W for residential systems and $0.44/W for commercial systems by 2020. Also, report highlights that certain processes categorized as soft costs may not appear significant in terms of dollars-per-watt but are costly in posing market barriers that slow PV ...This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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Sempra and Consolidated Edison finalise solar power joint venture
2013-09-25 01:00:00| Power Technology
Sempra US Gas & Power has finalised joint-venture (JV) agreements with Consolidated Edison Development for two of its plants: the 150MW Copper Mountain Solar II plant near Las Vegas and the 150MW Mesquite Solar I plant near Phoenix.
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Southern Miss professor receives renewal grant for solar cell research
2013-09-24 07:43:09| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Dr. Sarah Morgan, an associate professor in the School of Polymers and High Performance Materials at The University of Southern Mississippi, recently received a renewal grant from the prestigious Ray C. Anderson Foundation for her research project "Increasing Polymer Solar Cell Efficiency through Structures Inspired by Nature.
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India plans to develop world's largest solar power project with 4GW capacity
2013-09-24 01:00:00| Power Technology
The government of India have announced plans to develop a solar power project, claimed to be the world's largest, with a capacity of 4,000MW on a site close to Sambhar Lake and about 75km from the Jaipur, Rajasthan.
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