March 26, 2004 — APS has broken ground on Arizona’s first commercial solar trough power plant, the first such facility constructed in the United States since 1988. Located at the company’s Saguaro ...

ARVADA, CO--(Marketwired - Apr 22, 2014) - SkyFuel, Inc. is the technology provider for the parabolic trough solar field being integrated into the heating loop of Enel Green Power (EGP) North ...

Is the sun setting on solar thermal technology in the American desert? Shaking up an already-volatile Big Solar market in the United States, German developer Solar Millennium announced Thursday that ...

After more than a decade of hibernation, parabolic trough concentrated solar power (CSP) has emerged from its slumber with a mighty roar. Large new parabolic trough CSP power plants have recently ...

A mirror alignment measurement device may soon make one of the most popular solar collector systems, parabolic troughs, more affordable and energy efficient. A mirror alignment measurement device, ...

In April, the Obama administration offered German developer Solar Millennium’s U.S. joint venture a $2.1 billion loan guarantee to build a massive solar thermal power plant in the California desert.

A vast landscape of trough-shaped, interconnected mirrors west of Blythe has started feeding clean energy into the Southern California electrical grid after three years of construction. The Genesis ...

Abengoa Solar in early May began commercial operation of Solnova 1, the company’s first 50-MW parabolic trough plant. Covering 980,000 square feet with mirrors requiring an area totaling 280 acres ...

3M has started up what it says is the world’s largest aperture solar parabolic trough, in partnership with Gossamer Space Frames, as an addition to the 400-acre Sunray Energy facility in Daggett, ...

The world's first hybrid solar/coal power plant has been built near Palisade in Colorado. Xcel Energy and Abengoa Solar are partnering on the demonstration project which uses solar parabolic trough ...

Since the early 1860s, when French engineer and inventor Auguste Mouchout used a glass-enclosed cauldron, a polished parabolic dish, and the sun’s heat to produce steam for the first solar steam ...

THE problem of pumping water into troughs in remote areas where no power is available has been solved by British Waterways ecologists and engineers, using solar power. Engineers have installed the ...