Solar Power World

Satcon Selected For Power Plant in New Jersey

Satcon Technology Corp., a provider of utility-scale power conversion solutions for the renewable energy market, today announced that it has been selected by Quanta Renewable Energy Services and Ryan Company to deliver 10 of its 1 megawatt (MW) Prism Platform Solutions for the 10 MW (AC) New Jersey Oak Solar PV Power Plant in Fairfield Township, New Jersey. When completed later this year, the New Jersey Oak Solar project will be the largest non-utility owned solar project east... Read More

World’s largest concentrated solar plant gets a green light

Solar Trust of America announced that its project development subsidiary, Solar Millennium LLC, has received a proposed decision from the California Energy Commission (CEC) granting the license to build and operate its Blythe Solar Power Project in Riverside County, which would be the largest Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) facility in the world. The recommendation marks an important milestone in the company’s efforts to obtain final approval to build the four 242-megawatt... Read More

Solar-Driven Parabolic Dish Farm Opens

Solar plant developer Tessera Solar installed 60 solar collectors, called the SunCatcher from Stirling Energy Systems, in Peoria, Ariz. Each dish is rated at 25 kilowatts and the entire facility will have a capacity of 1.5-megawatts of generation. Utilities installing large-scale solar power generation are typically using arrays of flat photovoltaic panels or concentrating solar power systems, where mirrors or reflective troughs create heat to make electricity. The Stirling Energy... Read More

US Military Installs 500 MW Solar Plant

The U.S. military is tackling a new mission in the field of alternative energy, moving to power up a 500-megawatt solar facility at Fort Irwin’s sprawling desert complex in California. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers launched its first phase of the project on October 15th, 2009. The project, located at the Army’s largest training range in California’s Mojave Desert, could grow as large as 1 GW in the future. The companies will finance and build the plant in... Read More