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Some of the 90 solar panels recently installed at Ruby Falls as part of the environmental initiative. Ruby Falls is proud to be the first attraction in the U.S. to achieve Green Globe Certification for their environmental efforts. More information on Ruby Falls can be found at www.rubyfalls.com.
IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 05 2013: An aerial view of the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility at sunrise, with Tower 3, foregroud, 2 and 1. Heliostats installation is nearly completed.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
Baltimore City has created the solar powered water wheel, a 100,000-pound trash-collecting device that harness solar power and the current. Debris is funneled into the device and then onto a conveyor belt that deposits it into a dumpster, which is emptied once full.
Women from Afghanistan, Bolivia, Cameroon, Mail, Sierra Leone, and The Gambia are training to become barefoot solar engineers in Tilonia, home of the Barefoot College in India. After 6 months training in India, they will return to their home countries and solar-electrify their own communities.
Research at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) includes development of materials and batteries for stationary energy storage applications, as well battery testing, as shown in this photo. With growing national and international interest in clean, sustainable energy, stationary energy storage will be vital to adding renewables (wind and solar power, etc.) to the power grid, and perhaps even to making the smart grid a reality.
In this photo: PNNL Scientist Daiwon Choi
For more information, visit www.pnl.gov/news
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IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 05 2013: The top of Tower 1's is "lit" as a steam blow test is in progress in this aerial view of Tower 1 and its heliostats at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
The drone has two cameras and four motors , Kiosk Solar uses them for solar panel installation surveys . The Ipad does the controlling .
IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 02 2013: The top of Tower 1 is "lit" during a steam blow test at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility. Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 170,000 heliostat mirrors spread over 4,000 hectares, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to drive specially adapted steam turbines The project, developed by Bechtel, will cost $2.2 billion and be the largest solar farm in the world (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 05 2013: An aerial view of Tower 1 and its heliostats at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, where heliostast installation is nearly completed, and steam blow tests are taking place.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
Spring landscape -green grass, yellow flowers, the blue sky
For more info, go to Morgan Solar's website.
Solar-powered benches and bins beside the Between Forest and Skies V&A aluminium sculpture. Photograph: Doug Peters/ UK Government
IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 02 2013: The top of Tower 1 is "lit" during a steam blow test at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
Installation of the First Photovoltaic Grid-tie system in Mission, BC. Installation by Van Renewable Energy Coop - www.vrec.ca .
From left, Peng Zhou, postdoctoral research fellow, Yuyang Pan, first year PhD student, and Ishtiaque Navid, PhD student, working in the Molecular Bean Epitaxy Lab in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Friday, October 14, 2022. The three are members of Professor Zetian Mi’s research group.
In the lab they are growing Gallium nitride (GaN) based nanostructures by molecular beam epitaxy.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 05 2013: The top of Tower 1's is "lit" and sunlight reflected by mirrors floats in the air as a steam blow test is in progress in this aerial view of Tower 1 and its heliostats at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 02 2013: As seen from the top of the tower just below the boiler section, heliostats surrounding Tower 1 reflect sunlight toward the tower's top at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
Ishtiaque Navid, PhD student, puts on gloves as he prepares to work in the Molecular Bean Epitaxy Lab in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Friday, October 14, 2022. Navid is a member of Professor Zetian Mi’s research group.
In the lab they are growing Gallium nitride (GaN) based nanostructures by molecular beam epitaxy.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
Planet Solar, an organization promoting solar power, is conducting a circumnavigation aboard Turanor, a 101-foot, solar-powered catamaran with more than 5,000 square feet of solar cells. Photos by Gunnar Knechtel and courtesy of Planet Solar. To see more marine photography, go to www.madmariner.com. Para ver estas fotos en nuestro sitio en español, visite www.marineroloco.com
IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 02 2013: Close up of the base of Tower 1 at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
Large scale commitment to photovoltaic electricity in Milford, Utah. Lest I give the impression that all of Milford has seen better days, I must this picture of some serious commitment to green power at the new High School in Milford, Utah.
IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 05 2013: An aerial view of the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility with left to right Tower 1, 2 and 3, where heliostats installation is nearly completed.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 02 2013: The top of Tower 1 is "lit" during a steam blow test at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
solar solider heads move as they want, bend with the wind and sun...
this is very cool to see and I wish it were much larger... I went here much later in the evening and I wondered for a long time about how we spend our money.... this is not a all far form the white house --wish the pres would stop by here...
many people walked by and wondered "what is she taking pictures of?"
Arlington County Presents Innovative Solar-Powered Art
June 7 - September 1, 2007
CO2LED is designed to promote the use of alternative energy sources and recycling, as part of Arlington's environmental initiative, FreshAIRE (Arlington Initiative to Reduce Emissions). At each site, the artists will erect hundreds of solar-powered LEDs (light-emitting diodes) secured to rods topped with reused plastic bottles. They will create a soft, undulating cloud of light
For more information got to www.arlingtonarts.org/cultural_affairs/publicart.htm
Discovery World is an interactive museum located on the waterfront in Milwaukee, WI. They have this prominent renewable energy demonstration project in front of their building and it includes three different types of small scale wind and a solar PV tracking system. They also have a couple different southerly facing solar PV arrays on top of their building.
IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 02 2013: Heliostats stacked outside of the HAB building await transport at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 03 2013: Tower 2 (Tower 3 is in the background, at right) at dusk at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
Peng Zhou, right, a postdoctoral research fellow, conducts an experiment on the roof of the Wilson Student Team Project Center on the North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Friday morning, October 14, 2022.
Zhou and other members of Zetian Mi’s research group are using the large magnifying glass to focus the sunlight directly on a small semiconductor covered in water. The solar energy is used to separate the hydrogen and oxygen into separate elements. “Basically, we’re using green energy to extract hydrogen from water,” said Professor Zetian Mi.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing
IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 03 2013: Tower 2 and its heliostats at sunset at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
IVANPAH, CALIFORNIA, APRIL 02 2013: The top of Tower 1 is "lit" during a steam blow test at the Ivanpah Solar Power Facility.
Located in the Mojave Desert 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas, The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a solar thermal power project, currently under construction, with a planned capacity of 392 megawatts gross, enough to power approximately 140,000 houses. It will deploy 173,500 heliostat mirrors spread over approximately 3,500 acres, focusing solar energy on boilers located atop three solar power towers, generating steam to turn a conventional steam turbine. The project – owned by NRG Solar, Google and BrightSource Energy – is currently the largest solar thermal plant under construction in the world. The project is being constructed by Bechtel. (photo Gilles Mingasson/Getty Images for Bechtel).
The Central Solar Photovoltaic Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur.
Oct 15, 2012 - Mexican President Felipe Calderon kicked off on October 13, 2012 a 1-MW photovoltaic (PV) solar power plant in Volcan de las Tres Virgenes, Mulege municipality, in the northwestern state of Baja California.
Calderon said the plant will serve as an experimental model for its owner, the state-owned electric utility Comision Federal de Electricidad (CFE), in its target to develop renewable energy projects. The pilot facility, which has 4,000 PV panels, is a large-scale solar power plant which Calderon touted as the region's first.
The construction was awarded to local Microm SA, owned by Grupo Condumex, to which the Spanish photovoltaic (PV) cell and module maker Isofoton SA has supplied 4,172 modules of the ISF-240 type.
Initially, the plant's cost was estimated at USD 6.4 million (EUR 4.9m), but at the inauguration ceremony investments of some USD 8.5 million were announced.