A gentleman from New Zealand contacted me recently about a terrific idea in the integration of solar thermal water heating in residential, commercial, and industrial buildings . I’m off to Los Angeles for a meeting with him in which we’ll …
Category: Solar Thermal
From Guest Blogger Brian McGowan: Google Invests in Solar Energy Again
Love or hate the way they do their internet business, Google is definitely into their renewable energy. Over the years I have read some interesting articles about their investment in and installation of energy efficiency or renewable energy technology, and …
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High Concentration Solar Photovoltaic Thermal
A reader sent me this article of “high-concentration solar PV thermal” http://dailyfusion.net/2013/04/new-high-concentration-photovoltaic-thermal-system-will-collect-80-of-solar-energy-6391/ and asks: do you believe Concentrated Solar Power or ‘High Concentration Photovoltaic Thermal’ is still 30-40 years away?
Concentrated Solar Power Boasts Constantly Improving Levelized Cost of Energy
Not to say “I told you so,” but for several years I’ve been predicting a steep decline in the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) coming from concentrated solar power (CSP). Now, that prediction is quite definitely coming true. According to …
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From Guest Blogger Cass: Renewable Heat Initiative to Pump Money into Green Households
Good news for householders: the Government’s Renewable Heat Initiative (RHI) is being extended to residential properties. This means that green homeowners could be paid hundreds of pounds a year for generating heat by solar thermal panels, biomass boilers and heat …
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Tons of Concentrated Solar Power Headed for Northern Africa
I’ve often written that we’ll see the day when concentrated solar power (CSP, aka solar thermal) sited in Northern Africa will supply an enormous amount of energy – both for the region itself and for Europe to the north. Linked …
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Could Concentrating Solar Energy Save Humanity?
You have to admire the bravado of an author who would give such a title to an article: Could Concentrating Solar Energy Save Humanity? Normally, a religious extremist is required to pose a question like that. Kidding aside, it’s clear …
2GreenEnergy Headed Back to the East Coast
Next week I’m headed to the East Coast for a series of meetings, heading north from Washington DC to Philadelphia to Newark (NJ), and finally New York. Where I would love to do all this intercity travel by train, I’ll …
Solar Thermal Towers: One Is Good, Several Is Better
As a set of technologies, solar thermal, aka concentrated solar power (CSP), lags at least a couple of decades behind the more mature industries of wind energy and photovoltaics. That means that we can expect lots of interesting advancements as …
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2GreenEnergy at the CSP Today Show in Las Vegas
As I’ve mentioned frequently, I deeply admire CSP Today and the robust way it covers the international breaking news on concentrated solar power, aka solar thermal. I can’t believe it’s been over two years since I had lunch in the …
