Concentrating Solar Power
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AORA's Tulip system uses the sun's rays to heat air, which is then used to spin a turbine, creating electricity.
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Taking inspiration from the sunflower, researchers have devised a more efficient design that would allow Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants to be constructed on a much smaller area.
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Google has chipped in a US$168 million investment in what will be the world's largest solar power tower plant to be located on 3,600 acres of land in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California.
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Texas-based Fluor corporation is drawing up plans for a five gigawatt (GW) solar power plant in South Africa that would make it amongst the world’s largest.
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Arizona Public Service and Starwood Energy Group Global, LLC have just announced plans for a 290-megawatt concentrating solar plant to be built in Arizona which will produce enough electricity to power more than 73,000 homes.
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With 1,291 mirrored heliostats and a 54 story high tower, the world's largest solar power tower plant is now on line near Seville in Spain.