When the sun goes down, solar panels stop working. This is the fundamental hurdle of renewable energy: how to save the sun's ...

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Naked Energy has announced a new ground-mounted solar thermal technology called VirtuMAX, designed to deliver ...

An innovative hybrid solar device that combines a PV panel and energy storage has achieved record levels of energy storage efficiency for such a device. And unlike conventional batteries, the ...

A research group from Ghana has developed a solar PV-powered steam cooker (ISESC) with sand-based thermal energy storage (TES). “The potential of sand, given its thermal stability and low cost, has ...

Tsvetana is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing for news outlets such as iNVEZZ and SeeNews. China looks to accelerate solar thermal power development in a new policy ...

Concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) specialist Vast Renewables has completed final prototyping of a “first-of-its-kind” receiver tower that forms the basis of its clean energy solution that ...

New experiments by swiss researchers have show that industrial-relevant temperatures of 1,050°C can be generated from solar concentrators. Solar power for industrial heat would be able to decarbonize ...

When it comes to solar power, solar cells and panels tend to get all the attention. But there's a different kind of solar power generator known as a STEG, and researchers have just figured out a way ...