Space stations transmitting solar power have appeared in science-fiction works like Isaac Asimovs "Reason" (1941), that centers around the troubles caused by the robots operating the station. Asimovs short story "The Last Question" also features the use of SBSP to provide limitless energy for use on Earth.
Erc Kotani and John Maddox Robertss 2000 novel The Legacy of Prometheus' posits a race between several conglomerates to be 
the first to beam down a gigawatt of energy from a solar satellite in geosynchronous orbit.
In Ben Bovas novel PowerSat (2005), an entrepreneur strives to prove that his companys nearly completed power satellite and spaceplane (a means of getting maintenance crews to the satellite efficiently) are both safe and economically viable, while terrorists with ties to oil producing nations attempt to derail these attempts through subterfuge and sabotage.
Various aerospace companies have also showcased imaginative future solar power satellites in their corporate vision videos, including Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and United Launch Alliance.
The solar satellite is one of three means of producing energy in the browser-based game OGame. The city building game SimCity 2000 also features a Microwave Power Plant.
In the 1978 anime TV series Future Boy Conan, SBSP enables the country of Industria to develop geomagnetic weapons, more powerful than nuclear weapons, that destroy entire continents.