SkyFuel est une entreprise basée à Albuquerque, au Nouveau-Mexique. Ces 17 millions de dollars lui permettront de déployer commercialement sa technologie CSP : ReflecTech, un film à haute réflectivité destiné à recouvrir les miroirs. Le film ReflecTech a été développé en collaboration avec le NREL du Département à l'énergie des USA. 

"SkyFuel gets $17 million in venture funding - SkyFuel Inc. has closed on a $17 million series B round of funding from Leaf Clean Energy Co. SkyFuel, a solar startup headquartered in Albuquerque, will use the investment to commercially deploy its solar concentrating SkyTrough technology (...)" - Suite : BizJournals.com

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Photo : Randall Gee, Chief Technology Officer of SkyFuel, Inc., measuring reflectivity of Reflectech™ Mirror Film after 4 ½ years on parabolic trough solar collectors at the SEGS IV plant in Kramer Junction, CA.

 

ReflecTech™ in Solar Thermal Power Plant:

A Solar Field Manager inspects ReflecTech™ film on parabolic trough solar concentrators in May 2007 after 4-1/2 years of use at the SEGS-VI plant in Kramer Junction, CA.