After reading the oh so informative article, using some google-fu, and digging deep into my childhood memories I'm pretty sure that this isn't a "new type of solar plant". I remember driving by Solar One on a family trip when I was a younger. I'm guessing that the reference to Nevada's Solar One in the story is a typo. Solar One (not to be confused with Nevada's Solar One as linked in the story) used molten salt (NaNO3 and KNO3 mix) which is similar to this "new technology" (actually it was Solar Two, which was an upgrade of Solar One that used salt, but I guess you could still call it the Solar One complex or something). So the takeaways from this story are: not new technology that's not like the technology linked, but is like some technology that sounds similar to the technology linked is being commercialized. Story at 11.
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After reading the oh so informative article, using some google-fu, and digging deep into my childhood memories I'm pretty sure that this isn't a "new type of solar plant". I remember driving by Solar One on a family trip when I was a younger. I'm guessing that the reference to Nevada's Solar One in the story is a typo. Solar One (not to be confused with Nevada's Solar One as linked in the story) used molten salt (NaNO3 and KNO3 mix) which is similar to this "new technology" (actually it was Solar Two, which was an upgrade of Solar One that used salt, but I guess you could still call it the Solar One complex or something). So the takeaways from this story are: not new technology that's not like the technology linked, but is like some technology that sounds similar to the technology linked is being commercialized. Story at 11.