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Marrying Gas and Renewables

June 15, 2011 by Geoffrey Styles
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Marrying Gas and Renewables A Turkish developer recently announced that it would build a new power plant using technology from GE that matches wind and solar generation to the output of a highly responsive natural gas turbine, all integrated in one package with the hardware and software to mesh its output with the grid. GE is... [read more]

An interview with eSolar's Bill Gross

March 8, 2010 by Todd Woody
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photo: Todd Woody In an interview I did with green tech entrepreneur Bill Gross for Yale Environment 360, Gross talks about the future of solar energy, his relationship with Google, and how to avoid battles over building large solar farms in the deserts of the Southwest: Bill Gross is not your typical solar energy entrepreneur. In a... [read more]

Can we restore U.S. leadership in solar manufacturing?

March 6, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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The United States created the solar cell industry and literally launched it into space 50 years ago.   Solar PV is going to be one of the largest job-creating industries of the century, projected to grow “from a $20 billion industry in 2007 to $74 billion by 2017” (see “Invented here, sold there”). But thanks to conservative... [read more]

More Cost Effective Solar Thermal Electric Power

February 28, 2010 by Jonathan Smith
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As this blog recently reminded its readers Google has invested in two solar thermal companies, eSolar and BrightSource. Reuters reporter Poornima Gupta (with editing by Toni Reinhold) now informs the Carbon Market Community about the status of a prototype mirror. Google.org Bill Weihl expects the solar energy product ready in one to... [read more]

eSolar two-gigawatt China deal

January 10, 2010 by Todd Woody
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photo: eSolar In Saturday’s Los Angeles Times, I write about a ground-breaking solar thermal deal struck by eSolar of Pasadena, Calif., to build two gigawatts of power plants in China over the next decade: ESolar Inc. of Pasadena signed an agreement Friday to build a series of solar thermal power plants in China with a total capacity... [read more]

Green China: Friend or foe?

January 10, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Barely a week goes by without new evidence of the greening of China. This is great news for the planet—but some people say it’s bad for the U.S. Are they right to worry? What got me thinking about this was a phone conversation the other day with Bill Gross, the brilliant and tireless entrepreneur who is the chief executive of eSolar and... [read more]

eSolar takes solar thermal to Sub-Saharan Africa

October 16, 2009 by Big Gav
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Cleantech.com has a post on efforts to bring solar thermal power technology to Africa - eSolar takes solar thermal to Sub-Saharan Africa.Pasadena, Calif.-based eSolar said today its signed a deal with Johannesburg-based Clean Energy Solutions to sell and market the startup's solar thermal power plants in Sub-Saharan Africa.The deal... [read more]

Running the Electric Grid with eSolar

August 8, 2009 by Robert Rapier
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As I often do on a Saturday morning, I was up early reading through energy headlines. I happened across this story on eSolar:Bill Gross's Solar Breakthrough"We are producing the lowest cost solar electrons in the history of the world," Bill Gross is telling me. "Nobody's ever done it. Nobody's close.""We have a cost-effective, no-... [read more]

Bill Gross’s solar breakthrough

August 6, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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“We are producing the lowest cost solar electrons in the history of the world,” Bill Gross is telling me. “Nobody’s ever done it. Nobody’s close.” Bill Gross is nothing if not an enthusiast, which makes him a great salesman for whatever it is he happens to be selling. A lifelong entrepreneur, a longtime evangelist for solar energy and... [read more]

Race begins for $3b to fund green energy projects

August 4, 2009 by Todd Woody
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photo: eSolar The U.S. Department of Energy on Friday began accepting applications for at least $3 billion in direct funding of renewable energy power plant projects. The funding, part of the federal stimulus package, is in lieu of a 30 percent investment tax credit that green energy developers can take on their projects. Given that... [read more]