Large new parabolic trough CSP power plants have recently opened or soon will open in the United States and Europe. Arizona Public Service has announced plans to build the 280 MW Solana generating ...

Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC): A solar concentrator that utilises a parabolic-shaped reflector to focus sunlight onto a receiver tube, thereby converting solar radiation into thermal energy.

The plants will also have a 50 MW water steam cycle and use parabolic trough collectors with a molten salts thermal storage system. The equipment is scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of ...

Ideally, the hybrid solar-power system could achieve efficiencies of more than 50 percent, compared to 31 percent for photovoltaic cells alone. The researchers estimated that with 50 suns ...