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- Week in Renewables: A Solar Google, Algae on the Road, Striking it Rich in China
- The most significant renewable energy news of this week starts with an odd new entrant to the solar market: Google wants to make mirrors for solar thermal installations. It decided to find its own way after becoming "disappointed" with the lack of great ideas showing up in renewable energy. Solar...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
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- BrightSource and Edison Bring Back Big Solar
- Big Solar didn't stay away for very long. While the recession had a dampening effect on plans for large installations of wind, solar and other alternative energy forms, including pushing back groundbreaking on T. Boone Picken's wind farm and likely delaying the world's largest solar panel installation, solar thermal startup...
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- PG&E Signs Contracts with BrightSource Energy for up to 900 Megawatts of Solar Thermal Power
- SAN FRANCISCO -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced today that it has entered into a series of contracts with BrightSource Energy, Inc. for renewable solar power. The first three contracts are for a total of 500 megawatts MW of power to be supplied from three solar thermal electric generating...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- BrightSource Energy Sounds Off on the Realities of U.S. Energy Policy
- Greentech Media submits: By Eric Wesoff BrightSource Energy is one of the more interesting and successful solar startups of the last few years, and we’ve covered them extensively at Greentech Media. (They’re actually the revived Luz, a pioneering Israeli solar thermal company, but it was the recent VC funding...
- External links 2008-09-17
- BrightSource, PG&E Ink 1.31GW Deal in California
- Greentech Media submits: By Ucilia Wang BrightSource Energy said Wednesday it has inked a...
- External links 2009-05-13
- BrightSource Snags Chevron Deal in Stealthy Move into Solar Steam
- Greentech Media submits: By Ucilia Wang BrightSource Energy has landed its first-ever project to use its solar thermal technology for steam generation. by Greentech Media
- External links 2009-08-24
- Siemens Acquisition Values Solar Thermal Tech at $418M
- Solel, a solar thermal company that has mainly been active in Europe, has a new owner: Siemens, a German conglomerate most recognized in cleantech for its wind turbines. The $418 million acquisition marks the first time that a major solar thermal player has been picked up by...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Energy Roundup: Big Solar, Russian Threats, Biofuel and Solar Bankruptcies
- PG&E ups the stakes for BrightSource Energy -- Major California utility Pacific Gas & Electric has increased a previous agreement with BrightSource Energy for 900 megawatts of solar thermal power to 1,310 megawatts, which would make it the largest single solar plant in the world. Although BrightSource still needs a...
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Energy Roundup: Gazprom Teams with Petrovietnam, Fossils Trump Alts, Attack of the Jellyfish, and More
- Gazprom teams with Petrovietnam to explore Vietnam coast -- Russia’s Gazprom and Petrovietnam have inked a deal to explore for oil and gas in Vietnamese waters. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was on hand at the signing ceremony at the Kremlin, along with Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet. The Kremlin said...
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Energy Roundup: Bumps Equal Energy, World's Oil Appetite Falls, and More
- MIT students turn bumpy roads into energy -- Undergraduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology invented a shock absorber for cars and trucks that captures energy with every bump in the road and turns it into electricity. The new shocks, which can improve fuel efficiency by 10 percent, are being tested on Humvees...
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- Energy Roundup: Obama's Green Week, Takeovers and Bidding Wars, and More
- Massive offshore drilling proposal delayed for further review -- The Obama Administration this week continued its effort to undo some of President Bush's last-minute drilling and environmental decisions. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on Tuesday stalled a five-year drilling plan that would affect some 300 million offshore acres. Salazar hasn't scrapped...
- Blog posts 2009-02-17
- Week in Renewables: Neglected Nuclear, Falling Winds, Solar Redemption
- Should, or should not nuclear energy be considered a renewable? That's more of a long-running question than a news item from this week, but Department of Energy head Steven Chu did take the opportunity last Friday to again throw his weight behind nukes, saying that the government...
- Blog posts 2009-09-27
- First Solar Lands First Big U.S. Utility Contract?
- First Solar Lands First Big U.S. Utility Contract?First Solar to Present at Renewable Energy Finance Forum-Wall StreetSpeaking of First Solar... All of the big players in solar PV and thermal will be presenting at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum (http://www.reffwallstreet.com) held June 18-19 in NYC. Presenters include executives from Folar...
- Discussion threads 2008-04-25
- BrightSource Energy Files First Solar AFC in California Since 1989
- Application For Construction AFC Filed For 400 MW Solar Power Plant Complex
- Research articles 2007-09-06
- Sempra Energy's New Power Lines Will Be First Of Many
- A new highway to nowhere has just been approved at the cost of California taxpayers, but it's not the sort of highway America is best known for. Instead, electrical utility owner Sempra Energy has been granted permission to build a $2 billion power line into the Sonoran Desert over...
- Blog posts 2008-12-19
- NRG and eSolar Join a Growing List of Utility-Scale Solar Projects
- Plans to create massive solar farms in southwestern states are multiplying, with companies that were tiny startups only a year or two ago promising to supply electricity for tens of thousands of homes and businesses. The latest, announced yesterday, is NRG Energy, a New Jersey-based utility, making a deal for...
- Blog posts 2009-02-24
- Solar Tax Credit Hooks Another Major Utility
- The solar investment tax credit is turning out to be the bait the industry needs to keep money flowing in an economy running short on investors willing to fund renewable energy projects. When the federal tax incentives package was passed last October, which included the solar investment...
- Blog posts 2009-02-26
- ESolar Emerges as the Dark Horse of Solar Thermal
- Following an announcement last week that utility NRG would build 500 megawatts of solar thermal generation with eSolar designs, a Pasadena, Calif. company, has scored another coup, this time with an Indian company called The ACME Group, for development of a full gigawatt of capacity. These are...
- Blog posts 2009-03-04
- NIBMYism Builds Over California Transmission Projects
- Without more major power lines, it may be impossible to get energy from big renewable power plants to the towns and cities that need them. A whole range of companies are relying on this new transmission capacity, including solar thermal startups like Ausra and Brightsource, wind companies like Vestas, and...
- Blog posts 2009-05-11
- In China, the Price is Right For Solar
- Proponents of solar power in the United States may soon have reason to be green with envy over their Chinese peers. Shi Lishan, a spokesman from China's National Energy Administration, says that the country will soon pass a 1.09 yuan per kilowatt hour feed-in tariff for solar power, equal to...
- Blog posts 2009-06-03
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