The electricity it makes is expensive, its technology has been superseded, and it's incinerating thousands of birds ...

A once cutting-edge solar energy power plant in the Mojave Desert that looks like something out of a science fiction movie may be facing its last days, according to its builder and largest customer.

Texas startup Janta Power has secured $5.5 million in seed funding to expand its next-generation solar power towers, a vertical alternative to flat solar farms. The funding round was led by MaC ...

Concentrated solar power (CSP) technologies harness solar radiation through reflective devices to generate high-temperature heat, which is subsequently converted to electricity. Widely deployed ...

Thousands of mirrors neatly arranged in concentric circles gaze up at an enormous concrete pillar towering 195 meters (640 feet) above the desert sand. Not far from Las Vegas looks, the Crescent Dunes ...

EU-funded researchers are looking to hot air to overcome the supply and demand issues faced by solar energy and ease the clean energy transition. By Michael Allen As the world shifts toward renewable ...

Zeo Energy, a Florida-based provider of residential solar and energy efficiency solutions, has finalized its acquisition of Heliogen, a specialist in concentrated solar power. The merger creates a ...

Tucson added to its growing solar-energy credentials Thursday with the dedication of one of the world's most efficient photovoltaic systems at the University of Arizona Science and Technology Park.

18 February 2010 – Solar thermal manufacturer eSolar and Ferrostaal, a leading power plant developer, have forged a partnership to deploy turnkey solar power plants in countries including Spain, the ...

Abengoa and BrightSource Energy signed an agreement to jointly develop, build and operate two solar power towers in California. Both companies will work together to permit and finance the 500 MW Palen ...