heliostats

The plant consists of 30 heliostats (mirrors) that track the sun and direct its rays up to the 30-meter tall tower, where all the sunlight from the heliostats is concentrated.

World’s First Hybrid Solar Power Plant Opens in Israel | Inhabitat 2009

BrightSource Energy, with operations in Israel and in California deployed their technological innovation to develop a system that uses thousands of small mirrors called heliostats to reflect sunlight onto a boiler atop a tower to produce high temperature steam.

Sharona Justman: Reaching Across the Global Aisle to Produce and Deliver Clean Renewable Energy Sharona Justman 2010

They are most suited for regions that have a combination of predominantly sunny climate and large open spaces that can handle the 1,200-acre field of mirrors, called heliostats, needed to reflect the sun's energy to a 600-foot tower that houses the receiver for collecting the sun's energy.

Solar Venture Will Draw on Molten Salt 2008

In this case, flat tracking mirrors, called heliostats, concentrate the sun's energy onto a central receiver tower.

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For the Chevron "green steam" project, 7,644, 10-by-7-foot mirrors called heliostats were deployed in radiating arcs to face a 327-foot tower.

Forbes.com: News Todd Woody 2011

Solar thermal projects deploy fields of mirrors called heliostats that focus the sun on liquid-filled boilers to create steam that drives an electricity-generating industrial turbine.

Forbes.com: News Forbes Blogs 2011

Concentric rings of mirrors called heliostats - 170,000 of them - will encircle three 459-foot towers topped by water-filled boilers.

Forbes.com: News Todd Woody 2011

Differing from standard photovoltaic arrays, the three-plant Ivanpah complex (poised to become the largest solar thermal development in the world) will consist of fields of mirrors, called heliostats, that concentrate sunlight on "power towers" (pictured above).

VentureBeat Camille Ricketts 2010

The plant uses 1,255 large movable mirrors called heliostats to track the movement of the sun, which focus the sun's rays back at a receiver mounted on the central tower.

Google Sightseeing 2010

The computer-guided mirrors - called heliostats - can track the sun and focus its rays on a boiler at the top of a

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