A Finnish-Swedish consortium has designed a hybrid system that uses photovoltaics and solar thermal energy separately to provide steam to industrial facilities. The PV unit is coupled to a sand-based ...

China has launched commercial trials of the world's largest solar-thermal hybrid plant that generates electricity for up to ...

The Department of Energy is investing $33 million into nine projects, including an effort to use “concentrating solar thermal” tech to produce steam for a brewery. The US is continuing its ...

Faced with the world's impending freshwater scarcity, researchers turned to solar steam generators, which are emerging as a promising device for seawater desalination. The team sought design ...

The Swedish company stated that its new product was designed for use in compact, molten salt energy storage applications, eventually in combination with PV power. In its standard configuration, it can ...

COALINGA, California (Reuters) - Chevron Corp is building a solar plant here to create the steam that boosts production at an aging California oilfield, in a pioneering project the company aims to ...

The fabrication and application of MJF-printed SSGs. (a) Synthesis process of the C@Fe3O4 ink for MJF printing. (b) Illustration of the MJF testbed setup and the structure of printed SSGs. (c) ...