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Areva gets deeper into renewables with Ausra purchase

February 8, 2010 by Tyler Hamilton
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France’s Areva SA is known mostly as a designer of light-water nuclear reactors, builder of transmission and distribution systems, and a miner of uranium, so the announcement today that it has purchased 100 per cent of concentrated solar power company Ausra Inc. came as a surprise. Ausra, based in Mountain View, Calif., was founded... [read more]

Silicon Valley solar star Ausra seeks buyer

November 17, 2009 by Todd Woody
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Photo: Ausra Ausra has become the latest credit-crunched solar startup to seek a buyer/investor to bankroll its expansion. As I write Tuesday in The New York Times: Disrupting trillion-dollar energy markets is expensive, as solar companies like OptiSolar and Solel have found. Both sold out to larger, deep-pocketed companies this year.... [read more]

Solar shakeup: Ausra sells power plant to First Solar

November 5, 2009 by Todd Woody
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photo: Ausra Silicon Valley solar company Ausra has sold its sole remaining solar power plant project in the United States, all but completing its exit from solar farming. As I write Thursday in The New York Times: Ausra is continuing its exit from the business of building solar power plants, announcing on Wednesday that it has sold a... [read more]

Ausra in solar steam deals in Australia, Jordan

October 1, 2009 by Todd Woody
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photo: Ausra Silicon Valley solar startup Ausra in January decided to get out of the solar power plant business and focus on supply solar steam systems to developers. As I write in The New York Times today, the company has announced deals in Australia, Jordan and, soon, the United States: Ausra, a Silicon Valley solar start-up, burst... [read more]

US’ first solar thermal power plant opens in Nevada

July 1, 2008 by ToddWallace
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Ausra’s 130,000 square foot solar thermal power plant has opened in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 130,000 square foot facility is highly automated and will supply the reflectors, absorber tubes and other key components of Ausra’s Solar Thermal Power Plants. It is capable of manufacturing up to 700 megawatts annually and creates thousands of... [read more]

Energy Delayers, Get Out Of The Way: A New American Energy Future Awaits

July 1, 2008 by Jesse Jenkins
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By Helen Aki and Jesse Jenkins, cross-posted from the Breakthrough BlogJust as the time becomes ripe for a major push towards clean, cheap sources of electricity, the Bureau of Land Management threw a two-year stumbling block in the path of solar power development last Friday. As solar power ramps up--the Bureau has received 130... [read more]

Clean coal plans shelved in Saskatchewan

September 12, 2007 by Tyler Hamilton
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A clean-coal project that Saskatchewan's provincial power utility, SaskPower, has been promoting for several years has been shelved because of what its proponents claimed was a lack of government support. Seems the province had to move ahead with a decision on its future energy needs, so it opted to build a natural gas plant instead of... [read more]

Khosla, Kleiner put $40 million in Ausra

September 10, 2007 by Tyler Hamilton
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We knew that Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers were major backers of Ausra Inc., the Palo Alto, Calif.-based developer of solar-thermal power generation systems. But the company will disclose Monday, along with the launch of its Web site, that Khosla and Kleiner Perkins have invested $40 million in Ausra's first... [read more]