March 26, 2004 — APS has broken ground on Arizona’s first commercial solar trough power plant, the first such facility constructed in the United States since 1988. Located at the company’s Saguaro ...

A mirror alignment measurement device, invented by Rich Diver, a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories, may soon make one of the most popular solar collector systems, parabolic troughs, more ...

DENVER - Abengoa Solar is building large-scale parabolic trough solar installations in Arizona, at a facility operated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and in New York, for piano maker Steinway ...

Is the sun setting on solar thermal technology in the American desert? Shaking up an already-volatile Big Solar market in the United States, German developer Solar Millennium announced Thursday that ...

After more than a decade of hibernation, parabolic trough concentrated solar power (CSP) has emerged from its slumber with a mighty roar. Large new parabolic trough CSP power plants have recently ...

A vast landscape of trough-shaped, interconnected mirrors west of Blythe has started feeding clean energy into the Southern California electrical grid after three years of construction. The Genesis ...

In April, the Obama administration offered German developer Solar Millennium’s U.S. joint venture a $2.1 billion loan guarantee to build a massive solar thermal power plant in the California desert.

Parabolic trough solar collectors (PTCs) are among the most mature concentrating solar power technologies, employing curved mirrors to focus diffuse and direct solar irradiance onto a linear receiver ...

3M has started up what it says is the world’s largest aperture solar parabolic trough, in partnership with Gossamer Space Frames, as an addition to the 400-acre Sunray Energy facility in Daggett, ...

Abengoa Solar South Africa, through its affiliates Abengoa Solar South Africa and Son Revieren, in partnership with the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and black economic-empowerment partners ...

A mirror alignment measurement device may soon make one of the most popular solar collector systems, parabolic troughs, more affordable and energy efficient. A mirror alignment measurement device, ...