News about Solar, Wind and alternative green power technologies

A new product, called the UVAC 2010 Universal Vacuum Air Collector, has recently been released by Siemens, and was announced at the CSP Summit in Seville. This device uses high-tech coatings to absorb energy from the sun. This solar energy is then converted into heat and used for the production of electricity. 

This UVAC 2010 has been well received and is expected to generate positive sales results. The special coating prevents heat loss to a level lower than nine percent, and the size of the device creates the maximum sun exposure. 

The UVAC 2010 is a product that follows the UCAC receiver, which is a primary component that is utilized in power generation plants that use the parabolic trough.  There are over one hundred and fifty thousand UVAC’s operating in commercial use power plants. These parabolic trough power plants use the power block and a solar field that is equipped with efficient solar receivers. This one component, the UVAC 2010, has the ability to greatly improve the profitability of the solar plant.

To add strength to its market position in the solar thermal power plant business and to improve its portfolio in this segment, Siemens recently purchased Solel Solar Systems Ltd., a company that has been successful in the production of solar power.

Some of the key features of the UVAC 2010 include a larger active solar area, less heat loss, and a very great amount of solar absorption. These features mean that developers of solar fields can improve their revenues and decrease their operating costs, which significantly improves their profitability when using the UVAC 2010. The special high tech coating on the UVAC 2010 allows a greater amount of solar energy to be absorbed and then converted to heat. This heat, in turn, is used to create electricity. 
 
The UVAC 2010 is very efficient, as it provides a heat loss of less than nine percent. This is due to the technological improvements in the sputtered selective coating, and a greater ratio of active area to length, so the receiver’s solar exposure is improved and the amount of energy that is absorbed is also enhanced.
 
Over the next ten years, the solar thermal power plant market will grow annually by over ten percent, and reach a dollar volume of greater than 20 billion Euros. The countries that show the most future growth potential are the United States, North and South Africa, the Middle East, Australia, Spain, and India. 

Siemens Environmental portfolio includes companies that provide solutions and products for power plants that utilize solar power. The value of this portfolio in 2009 was approximately twenty three billion Euros in revenue, which put Siemens into the position of world leader in the supply of environmentally friendly technologies. Their products and technology allowed their customers to cut their output of carbon emissions significantly, by two hundred and ten million metric tons.

Siemens Energy Sector is a leading supplier in the world to the oil and gas industry, and supplies a complete line of products, services, and solutions to the power generation, transmission, and distribution sector. The annual revenue for Siemens Energy Sector in 2008 for the period ended September 30th, was about twenty-two billion, six hundred thousand Euros, and new orders totaled about thirty three billion, four hundred thousand Euros. Their profit was one billion, four hundred thousand Euros for this same fiscal period. Their total labor force was about eight-three thousand five hundred employees.