Schott Solar

This white paper was created by SCHOTT, which technology company that develops specialty manufacturing materials. It provides information for political and business leaders on solar thermal power plant technology so that they may familiarize themselves with the technology and understand the steps necessary to make the technology market ready.

This report was arranged by Solar-Thermal in 2008 and includes an overview on the benefits of solar energy. It then goes on to make a comparison between solar energy and photovoltaic energy, explaining how solar energy concentrates the light from the sun to create heat, while photovoltaic directly converts the sun’s light into electricity.

Surviving in harsh climate: This vacuum tube collector system has heated the Brandfield House at the Rothera research station in the Antartic since February 2008.
Photo: British Antarctic Survey