A bright future is dawning in China as the world's largest solar tower project (by expected tower capacity) recently broke ground — and it's a major win for people and the planet alike.

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.

The Solar Towers Jülich are a globally unique research facility for tests using concentrated natural sunlight to generate electricity, heat and fuels. The facility is not only used by DLR researchers, ...

This is China's new dual-tower solar thermal plant, Interesting Engineering reports. Solar panels that convert sunlight into ...

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

Australia’s Vast Renewables has completed a first-of-its-kind concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) receiver tower, one of the final components of what will be Australia’s first large scale ...

Powerchina has switched on a 100 MW solar tower in South Africa. The concentrated solar power (CSP) project will supply 480 GWh of clean energy to the country’s power grid each year. The system ...

Sulzer has been selected to supply both the hot and cold molten salts pumps for the installation of a 100 MW CSP tower project in ... use of molten salts in the solar industry more than 15 years ...

Another technique uses moveable mirrors to focus the sun's rays on a collector tower, where a receiver sits. Molten salt flowing through the receiver is heated to run a generator. Other solar ...

the production of solar fuels and the use of solar heat in industrial processes. 2000 movable mirrors direct the sun's rays onto the two towers More than 2,000 movable mirrors (heliostats) cover an ...