More than more 5,000 homes and businesses in Canberra will benefit from subsidised solar power system battery storage over the next 4 years.
New battery technology could allow Australian homes to generate and store solar-powered energy more cheaply than traditional electricity suppliers by 2018, says report.
We’ve reported on space-based solar farms before, where orbiting satellite arrays beam uninterrupted energy back to Earth via microwave or incredibly huge electrical cables. A French researcher has suggested a simpler method of unimpeded solar electricity production: ‘solar balloons’.
The ACWA Solafrica Bokpoort CSP Power Plant is now fully functional and supplying clean electricity to thousands of homes in South Africa.
Bokpoort CSP has an installed capacity of 50 MW, plus two thermal energy storage (TES) tanks measuring 36/40 meters diameter and a height of 18 meters.