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Articles & Whitepapers
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Tracking the Sun’s Path for the World’s Largest Solar Concentrator
In early 2023, the world’s largest and most efficient solar concentrator was installed in Western India to power a hospital and research center. The impressive construction will produce steam for multiple applications as well as electricity for air conditioners. To maximize irradiance yield, the engineers are aligning the 26-ton concentrator with the path of the sun, utilizing data from the ...
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How to Choose the Right Sun Tracker?
A complete measurement of solar irradiance includes global (GHI), direct (DNI), and diffuse (DHI or DIF) radiation. To accomplish this, a high-quality solar monitoring station typically comprises an ...
News
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$30M in New Funding to Advance Concentrating Solar-thermal Technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) announced the Solar-thermal Fuels and Thermal Energy Storage Via Concentrated Solar-thermal Energy funding opportunity, which will award $30 million for projects to produce fuels ...
Renewables Competitiveness Accelerates, Despite Cost Inflation
Cemex and Synhelion make further progress toward the world’s first fully solar-powered cement plant
DOE Breaks Ground on Concentrating Solar Power Pilot Culminating $100 Million Research Effort
City of Lancaster Announces Collaboration with Heliogen to Produce Green Hydrogen
Equipment & Solutions
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Sun Tracker
By employing the latest advances in tracker technology, the ST-5 makes direct and POA irradiance measurements refreshingly simple and affordable for research and industry alike.