On a much larger scale, solar-thermal power plants employ various techniques to concentrate the sun's energy as a heat source. The heat is then used to boil water to drive a steam turbine that ...

When completed in late 2013, the $2.2 billion Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System—the largest of its type in the world ... the amount of solar thermal energy produced in the United ...

These underground reservoirs of steam and hot water can be tapped to generate electricity or to heat and cool buildings ... no emissions. Unlike solar and wind energy, geothermal energy is always ...

They then simulated the thermal performances of nine building types in Adelaide ... s housing stock through solar pre-cooling and pre-heating,” published in Energy and Buildings.