Month: December 2022

The Solana Solar Generating Station is the largest solar plant using parabolic trough technology in the world and is located near Gila Bend, AZ, just outside the Phoenix metro area. Dr. Wagner, Matt Tuman (graduate researcher – MS), Tyler Lee (Faustin-Prinz researcher), and Mark Malkin (Program Director for InterPro at UW-Madison) traveled to the plant …

Members of the ESOL were among the approximately 400 attendees at the SolarPACES 2022 conference in Albuquerque, NM. Dr. Wagner’s group submitted and presented four technical papers covering research advances in solar power plant simulation and development of a power-hardware-in-the-loop testbed. Conference activities included a tour of the National Solar Thermal Test Facility (NSTTF) at …