Thermal

Gas Natural joins the solar thermal market

Tuesday, 13 March 2007 Gas Natural, one of Spain's largest utilities, has launched a new business line to promote the joint use of natural gas and solar energy in homes and service industries. The new business line will ...

Europe presents ESTTP, a new technological platform for the solar thermal industry

Thursday, 11 May 2006 The creation of the European Solar Thermal Technology Platform, ESTTP, is part of the European Commission's technological platform concept, aimed to promote and ease the development of industries with ...

Barcelona passes a new solar thermal Ordinance

Monday, 27 February 2006 Last Friday, Barcelona's City Council passed a new solar thermal Ordinance. Among the characteristics of the new legislation, the elimination of the thresold of application, placed to date at 292 MJ per ...

Skyfuel unveils its solar SkyTrough

The company claims that it is the World's highest performance, lowest cost utility-scale solar power system.

eSolar and Southern California Edison seal solar deal

Both companies have reached an agreement to develop an impressive 245 MW of concentrating solar power (CSP) in America... will CSP become the next big thing? Google, one of eSolar's biggest ...

Solar Report: Concentrating Solar Power - Technology, Cost, and Markets

Greentechmedia and the Prometheus Insitute have just released a new report on Concentrating Solar Power (CSP). More than $ 30 billion of investments have been announced in the last six months for this ...

New 177 MW solar electric thermal plant to be built by Ausra

The plant will be built in San Luis Obispo (California) and will be completed in 3 years.

Natural gas marries solar energy

Gas Natural, one of Spain's largest energy firms, and Viessmann, a German manufacturer of solar thermal technology, have sealed a deal to develop solar thermal energy facilities using natural gas as ...

A solar Hungary?

Hungary could use solar energy to replace up to 20% of its hydrocarbon-based power needs, according to Mr Miklós Persányi, Environment and Water Management Minister of the European country.

Genera goes solar

The 2007 edition of Genera, which is supposed to be an energy and environment exhibition, has seen twice as many visitors as last year and an increased focus on solar energy. Many experts suggest that ...