Proposed 150 MW Solar Plant Would Store 7 Hours of Sun's Energy in Molten Salt

Proposed 150 MW Solar Plant Would Store 7 Hours of Sun's Energy in Molten Salt:
Design rendering of Rice Solar Energy Project via Solar Reserve

The problem with solar power plants is, of course, that they're rendered useless on cloudy days and at night. But news broke a while back that a process of storing solar energy in molten salt was being considered to help make solar power plants more commercially viable. Now, it looks like that technology is about to be put into action: a California company has filed an application to build a 150 megawatt solar plant that will store 7 hours worth of the sun's energy in molten...Read the full story on TreeHugger

Great spin on PV Thermal plants!