POWER COMPANY IN FIRST THIN FILM POWER PLANT BUILD

First Solar is the biggest success story in the solar industry. In 2007, its stock value grew 795%. It specializes in the cadmium telluride thin-film formula, is run by solar-industry savvy leaders and cannot expand it production capacity fast enough to meet demand. Sempra Energy, a California power company, has decided to enter the solar power generation business with First Solar. Several approaches are being used to take advantage of the sun-saturated southwestern deserts to produce utility-scale solar energy generation. Concentrating Solar Power Plants (CSP) do not use photovoltaic materials like silicon panels or thin films at all but instead use reflectors to concentrate the sun’s heat on liquid that is superheated and flows to boilers where it turns water into steam to drive turbines that generate electricity.CSP is the... [read full story]