Hybrid Photovoltaic Solar-Thermal Collector Does Both Jobs

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Excerpt: The Turkish company, Solimpeks Corp., has launched its Volther hybrid photovoltaic-solar thermal collector, which produces electricity and hot water simultaneously. The hybrid system allows extra module heat to be absorbed to produce hot water while optimising efficiency, the company says.Histor …

New Report Says The Major Solar Thermal Market Is China

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Excerpt: The report “Solar Thermal Power Report” describes solar thermal energy technology in its various applications. Although concentred solar power (CSP) generation is probably better known, solar thermal (ST) collectors employ a much lower level of technology and convert far more of the sun’s …

New Hybrid Solar Collector Produced By Solimpeks Corp.

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Excerpt: Solimpeks Corp., a solar company based in Karatay, Turkey, has released the Volther hybrid solar collector, which produces electricity and hot water simultaneously.The product hybrid modules produced by Solimpeks Corp. allow extra module heat to be absorbed to produce hot water, thus optimizi …

Thermal Towers May Be Going Down To The Ground

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Excerpt: Solar power towers have proven to be a fairly efficient way of converting solar energy into electricity. In a solar power tower, energy from a large array of mirrors focused onto a tower that captures the heat in some way, and then converts that heat to electricity using a boiler and turbine. It's a …

Solar-Driven Parabolic Dish Farm Opens

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Excerpt:Solar plant developer Tessera Solar installed 60 solar collectors, called the SunCatcher from Stirling Energy Systems, in Peoria, Ariz. Each dish is rated at 25 kilowatts and the entire facility will have a capacity of 1.5-megawatts of generation.Utilities installing large-scale solar power …

How effective is residential solar power?

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Excerpt: The effectiveness of a solar power system for powering your home (or part of your home) depends upon a number of factors. For example:Electric or gas? In general, any appliance that uses electricity to power a heat element (for instance, an electric stove, an electric clothes dryer, or an elect …

Solar Thermal Energy Storage Media

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Excerpt: ConcreteThe German Aerospace Center constructed a facility at the University of Stuttgart for testing a concrete, thermal energy storage system. They are examining the performance, durability and cost of using a solid, thermal energy storage media (high-temperature concrete or castable ceramic m …

Solar Thermal Energy Storage

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Excerpt: One advantage of parabolic trough power plants is their potential for storing solar thermal energy to use during times when the sun is not shining as well as to dispatch energy when it's needed most. As a result, thermal energy storage (TES) allows parabolic trough solar power plants to achieve high …

Multiphysics Modeling gives a Glimpse at Revolutionary Solar Energy Techniques

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Excerpt: Written by:Karl-Anders Weiss, Fraunhofer Institute For Solar Energy Systems, Freiburg, GermanyFundamentally new solar thermal collector designs based on polymeric materials are interesting because they replace metal with plastics and thus offer the potential of far lower costs. In studying these …

Solar Energy CEO’s Sound Off on the State of their Industry

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Excerpt: At the recent Solar Power International 2009 show in Anaheim, the CEOs of five solar power companies assembled to discuss the state of their industry and predict how they see their business evolving over the next few years. NBC correspondent Anne Thompson lead the discussion with:Jerry Wolfe, CE …