In 2014, it started commercial operations as the world’s largest solar thermal plant, spread across around 5 square miles of federal desert. “This project is a symbol of the exciting progress we are ...

Solar panels have gotten so cheap that the plant, born of an old attempt at harnessing the power of the sun, appears to be obsolete.

However, as concentrated solar thermal plants are built all over the world—30 are being developed in China alone—the knowledge base is growing. More than 80% of Australia's total energy use ...

The plant was the world’s largest solar thermal plant when it was built, spreading over 5 miles of federal land. It cost about $2.2 billion and received loan guarantees worth $1.6 billion from ...

When I stood on a platform to see the vast array of heliostats in the Gobi Desert near Dunhuang, where 12,000 mirrors track ...

A private company will be allowed to set up these projects on an Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) model for a ...

Vietnam is revising its energy plans to focus more on large solar farms and less on reliance on coal and natural gas.

In 2014, it started commercial operations as the world’s largest solar thermal plant, spread across around 5 square miles of federal desert. “This project is a symbol of the exciting progress ...

Solar Power Towers (Thermal solar plants): A large field of flat mirrors that track the sun and concentrate sunlight onto a central tower to heat fluid and run a steam generator. First developed ...