Please find below the commentary, reflecting the statistical information on the array of publications in Concentrated Solar Power, dated 2017. All of them have been preselected from Google Scholar database with the help of typical keywords. The present list contains 994 papers, written by 875 investigators from 78 countries as authors or contributors. These scientific studies in their entirety are available in our Library section on...

At the end of August 2018, Sao Paulo, the largest city in Brazil, hosted a regular exhibition on solar energy as part of  the Intersolar South America series, combined with a thematic conference. The focus of these events was advanced achievements throughout the technological chain of solar energy conversion and its practical application. In addition, a special exhibition was organized, dedicated to current solutions in Electrical...

Solar energy, both in Europe and in the world, continues to be one of the main directions for the development of renewable energy. In May 2018 for the 26th time, the Munich Exhibition Center hosted Intersolar Europe, the leading exhibition in Europe in the field of solar energy production and use. The exhibition was first opened in 1991 and since then its popularity has only grown. This year, the topics of the exhibition and the...

Canadian Solar Inc. is one of the world's largest solar power companies. As a leading manufacturer of solar photovoltaic modules and provider of solar energy solutions, Canadian Solar also has a geographically diversified pipeline of utility-scale power projects in various stages of development. In the past 17 years, Canadian Solar has successfully delivered over 25GW of premium quality modules to over 90 countries...

NextEra Energy Inc. (NEE) is one of the largest electric power companies and a leader in the renewable energy industry with consolidated revenues of approximately $17.2 billion. The company operates approximately 46,790 megawatts of net generating capacity and employs approximately 14,000 people in 33 states and Canada. With one of its principal subsidiaries, NextEra Energy Resources (NEER), the Company is the world's largest generator...

JA SOLAR, founded in 2005 in China, is a manufacturer of high-performance photovoltaic (PV) products, with a business portfolio including wafers, cells, modules and photovoltaic power stations. The Company sells to over 100 countries and regions. Historically, the Company has primarily been engaged in the manufacturing and sales of solar cells. Since 2009 the business has been expanded to silicon wafer manufacturing and manufacturing...

About a quarter of the examined patent applications were published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office; the Chinese patent office is second by popularity with another 19% of published documents. These countries were also among the leaders of solar energy production in 2015. Nearly a third of the patent applications were published in regional patent offices: the World Intellectual Property Organization (17%) and the...