The Siemens plant produces high-efficiency solar receivers, which are key components of solar thermal power plants.

Possible benefits include drought-protected electricity for Seattle.

The project, promoted by CIEMAT, will increase the capacity of the plant to store thermosolar energy.

Medicine Hat is hoping to become the first city in Canada to use steam produced by solar energy to run its power plant

Funding from npower means that a swimming pool that is part of a multipurpose centre on the Stackpole Estate in Pembrokeshire has been installed with enough renewable technology to make it the largest collection of solar thermal panels across the National