The review highlighted several concentrator models, such as parabolic dish collectors, compound parabolic collectors, and the extremely concentrated solar energy delivery system (ECoSEnDS).

The Met-Ed / Penelec Sustainable Energy Fund has awarded a $340,000 grant to Solarflux Energy Technologies Inc. in Bern Township, which has developed a solar dish concentrator that, officials said ...

IBM Research and Swiss-based Airlight Energy have created a solar concentrator that looks like a giant sunflower and can produce 20kW of power per day, along with clean water and hot or cool air.

Cooling a supercomputer can provide clues on how to make solar power cheap, says IBM. Researchers envision giant concentrators, built with low-cost materials, that produce electricity and heat for ...

IBM and its partners used a solar concentrator dish to shine light on a thin array of highly efficient triple-junction solar cells, which produce electricity from sunlight. By concentrating the light ...

Q&A: Solensphere looks to make solar power cheaper and more reliable by Denis Du Bois on August 13, 2012 at 9:18 am August 13, 2012 at 10:14 am Share Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

The improved design of the FOCUS centers on design-for-manufacturing improvements and encompasses all aspects of the FOCUS parabolic dish concentrator with particular emphasis on the parabolic ...

The LRESE parabolic dish: the solar reactor converts solar energy to hydrogen with an efficiency of more than 20%, producing around 0.5 kg of "green" hydrogen per day. (Courtesy: LRESE EPFL) A new ...

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 ...