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What happened with Concentrated Solar Power Crescent Dunes plant?
The Crescent Dunes Concentrated Solar Power project in the US was the first of a kind at 110 MW. The first tower CSP with thermal energy storage at full-scale. (Above about 150 MW, the distances of the solar field encircling the tower receiver has optical limits) It was developed by the RocketDyne-based startup SolarReserve, and …
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Improved design FOCUS solar thermal parabolic dish concentrator begins field trials
With an improved design for volume manufacturing, the updated Solarflux FOCUS parabolic dish concentrator has commenced field trials to demonstrate it’s solar-to-thermal conversion efficiency and operational reliability. Solarflux Energy Technologies, Inc. (Solarflux) is pleased to announce the start of field trials of an improved design FOCUS solar thermal parabolic dish concentrator. The trials are intended …