Wednesday, October 29, 2008

High Performance, Low Cost, Solar Power

Press Release
SkyFuel unveils the SkyTrough™: the world’s highest performance, lowest cost
utility-scale solar power system.

Arvada, Colorado October 10th, 2008: – SkyFuel, Inc. today secured its position as the leader in the rapidly growing concentrating solar power (CSP) industry by unveiling the SkyTrough™: the highest performance, lowest cost utility-scale solar power system of any kind for generating electricity. With glass-free mirrors, a highly engineered space frame that allows compact transportation and rapid field assembly, and new more efficient drive & control systems, the SkyTrough™ cuts the cost of the parabolic trough concentrator by 35% compared to other commercially available systems. Read more . . .




For a good description of Parabolic Trough Solar Field Technology visit the NREL website and read this article.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Home solar panels aid in the solar power energy that can reduce or evne replace the use of other electricity options.

Anonymous said...

I agree it helps reduce the cost of electricity. Adding it to the home is useful. I hope that homeowners will make use of this technology.

solar power system said...

A well-sized solar panel system could provide up to 60% of your annual hot water requirements.