Solar without the Panels

MIT Technology Review by Peter Fairley | Feb. 29, 2008 (News Report)

Utilities are using the sun's heat to boil water for steam turbines.

This month, in the latest in a string of recent deals, Spanish solar-plant developer Abengoa Solar and Phoenix-based utility Arizona Public Service announced a 280-megawatt solar thermal project in Arizona. By contrast, the world's largest installations of photovoltaics generate only 20 megawatts of power. Full Story »

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by Beth Wellington - Oct. 1, 2008

This reports on an interesting development which will make solar energy more economically feasible. Since it is a concentrated, rather than distributed solution, it will be attractive to utilities, although not necessarily to consumers who may prefer reverse metering in which they are able to decrease their power bill by generating a portion of theri energy on site.

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