Indian Solar Capacity to Hit 20GW by FY 2017-18
According to a report released by consulting firm Bridge to India, India is expected to reach an installed solar capacity of 20 gigawatts by the end of the present…
List of Photovoltaic Power Plants in the World
Solar photovoltaic cells convert sunlight into electricity and manysolar photovoltaic power stations have been built, mainly in Europe. As of October 2009, the largest photovoltaic (PV) power plants in the world…
List of Solar Thermal Power Plants
This is a list of solar thermal power plants. These include the 354 megawatt (MW) Solar Energy Generating Systems power plant in the USA, Solnova solar power station (Spain, 150 MW),Andasol solar power station…
Solar Thermal Energy – STE
Solar thermal energy (STE) is a technology for harnessing solar energy for thermal energy (heat). Solar thermal collectors are classified by the USA Energy Information Administration as low, medium, or high-temperature…
Solar Energy Generating Systems
Solar Energy Generating Systems (SEGS) is the largest solar energy generating facility in the world. It consists of nine solar power plants in California's Mojave Desert, where insolation is among the best available in…
Concentrating Solar Power
Concentrated solar power (CSP) systems use lenses or mirrors to focus a large area of sunlight onto a small area. Electrical power is produced when the concentrated light is directed onto…
Photovoltaics
A solar cell, or photovoltaic cell (PV), is a device that converts light into electric current using the photoelectric effect. This is based on the discovery by Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel who noticed that…
Which High-Performance Materials Are Used in Nuclear Reactors?
Growing cities, rise in population and the desire for a modern lifestyle has made the use of sophisticated gadgets inevitable. These gadgets demand a great deal of energy. Today, this has…
Nuclear Technology Abandoned Decades Ago Might Give Us Safer, Smaller Reactors
Troels Schönfeldt can trace his path to becoming a nuclear energy entrepreneur back to 2009, when he and other young physicists at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen started…
