Solar Power

Spanish company Grupo OPDE’s subsidiary Mecasolar, which designs, manufactures and installs solar trackers and other equipment for solar power plants in Europe and elsewhere, announced that by the end of 2010, it expects to have installed globally more than 22,000 solar trackers with a total power of 282 MW.

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Italian Solar Market Has 42 MW of Mecasolar Trackers

For decades, designers of solar power systems have faced a knotty set of interlocking challenges. Solar panels produce DC at relatively low voltages, but inverters require a relatively high input voltage to be able to convert the power to AC and send it to the grid

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Solar Array Design: Parallel Wiring Opens New Doors

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Teenage Industry Has Not Yet Left Home

The energy developer and project owner NextEra Energy Resources got the green light from the California Energy Commission (CEC) this week to build a $1 billion, 250 MW concentrating solar power plant in the state. It’s the first time in 20 years that a project of its kind has gotten approval.

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250 MW CSP Project Approved in California