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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]

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]

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]

The solar biz is heating up

September 13, 2007 by Marc Gunther
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No doubt there’s a boom unfolding in the solar energy business.Here are some of the investors in solar: Google guys Sergei Brin and Larry Page, VC firms Kleiner Perkins and Benchmark Capital, ex-Ebay exec Jeff Skoll, VC Vinod Khosla, Goldman Sachs, Idealab’s Bill Gross, mutual fund families Wellington and Fidelity. They are buying into... [read more]