Solar Power World

Report shows concentrated solar market growth for the new year

The past year has seen the concentrated solar power industry move forward with its first wave of global project construction after years of early-stage ambition. Scaling activity in the southwestern U.S. along with multiple project commissions in Spain have afforded CSP players the opportunity to push beyond the industry’s two pillar markets and toward global development, which in turn has attracted a series of investments from large-scale energy conglomerates and financiers. Still,... Read More

Is The Future For Solar In Deserts Or On Rooftops?

A recent study by David Anthony says that solar energy, despite all of the effort to increase its usage, still only accounts for less than one percent of the energy we consume.   The amount of solar energy that reaches the Earth’s surface every hour is greater than mankind’s total demand for energy in a whole year. The total energy stored in the world’s supply of fossil fuels is equal to just twenty days of solar energy.  By any measure, the sun is a... Read More