Concentrated solar power

Concentrating solar power systems could send the cost of green hydrogen spiraling downwards, with an assist from perovskites.

Converting methane to an alternative fuel using energy from the sun could reduce carbon-dioxide emissions.

Concentrated solar power (CSP), also known as concentrating solar power, solar thermal power, or solar thermal electricity, uses glass mirrors of different architectures to collect the sun’s thermal energy and convert it into electrical energy.

Construction of 50MW Bokpoort Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plant in Northern Cape, South Africa is moving on smoothly with 50 percent of the work through

Learn more about what concentrated solar power is, including how it works, how it’s used, its advantages & drawbacks and how it differs from solar PV.

Gemasolar is a 19.9MW, small scale concentrated solar power plant (CSP) located in the city of Fuentes de Andalucía in…

California’s Mojave Desert is home to Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, the world’s largest operating solar thermal energy plant. It uses concentrating solar power (CSP) technology to focus 173,500 heliostats, each containing two mirrors, onto boilers located in three power towers.

The United Arab Emirates has opened the "largest concentrated solar power plant in operation anywhere in the world" in Abu Dhabi with their 100-megawatt solar-thermal project, according to Daily Mail UK. This $600million project—which took three years to complete—is believed to have the ability to power 20,000 homes in the country and in turn, reduce carbon emission by 175,000 tons.

Articles that summarizes the main outcomes at the end of the linked EU Research project

(Images via: OSGDE, Paolino Foto and TreeHugger) The Sahara Desert is a notoriously hostile environment where it is almost impossible to survive – let alone grow and thrive. The Sahara Forest Project is an audacious environmental undertaking aims to change all of that. Using an inspired combination of solar power and seawater, an ambitious collective […]