Aloha Reporter » Solar http://alohareporter.com News From Around Hawaii Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:37:13 +0000 en hourly 1 Geothermal and Solar Power to Get Married in Hawaii http://alohareporter.com/2010/04/08/geothermal-and-solar-power-to-get-married-in-hawaii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=geothermal-and-solar-power-to-get-married-in-hawaii http://alohareporter.com/2010/04/08/geothermal-and-solar-power-to-get-married-in-hawaii/#comments Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:33:37 +0000 AR http://alohareporter.com/?p=90 Geothermal

How do you make solar thermal technology economical at a small scale?

In Hawaii, a power developer will soon find out if earth and sky mix. Pacific Light & Power will build a 10-megawatt solar thermal plant that will combine a trough solar collector from Spain’s Albiasa with a turbine traditionally used in geothermal systems.

Why? Ten megawatts is unusually small for a solar thermal field. BrightSource Energy, by contrast, wants to build one in California that will produce 396 megawatts of power.

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Source: Greentech Media

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