photo: eSolar This post first appeared on Grist. Amid all the hope and hype about the nascent solar boom under way in California, there’s long been an elephant in the room – transmission. Billions and billions of dollars must be spent to build and upgrade transmission lines to connect dozens of proposed solar power plants [...]
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Transmission constraints derail California solar project
Posted in alternative energy, energy, environment, eSolar, PG&E, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, tagged eSolar, NRG Energy, PG&E, solar energy, solar power plants, transmission on June 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
An interview with eSolar’s Bill Gross
Posted in alternative energy, energy, enviro capitalism, enviro startups, environment, eSolar, Google, green startups, green tech, solar energy, solar power plants, tagged Bill Gross, eSolar, green technology, solar energy, solar power plants on March 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »
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. [...]
China’s green syndrome
Posted in alternative energy, eSolar, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, tagged China, eSolar, Grist, solar energy, solar power plants, solar thermal on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: eSolar In my new Green State column on Grist, I take a look at the implications of California startup eSolar’s 2,000 megawatt solar thermal deal with China: Forget Red China. It’s Green China these days—at least when it comes to making big renewable deals. Friday night, a Chinese developer and eSolar of Pasadena, Calif., [...]
China’s big bet on biomass solar hybrid power
Posted in alternative energy, environment, eSolar, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, tagged biomass solar hybrid, China, eSolar, Penglai Electric on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
photo: eSolar In The New York Times on Monday, I follow up on my story in Saturday’s Los Angeles Times on China’s move into solar thermal power with a 2,000 megawatt deal with eSolar of California: China’s plans to build 2,000 megawatts of solar thermal power using technology from a California company, eSolar, will also [...]
eSolar’s two-gigawatt China deal
Posted in alternative energy, energy, enviro startups, environment, eSolar, solar energy, solar power plants, tagged Bill Gross, China, eSolar, Penglai Electric, solar energy, solar power plants, solar thermal on January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Wildlands Conservancy’s solar connection
Posted in alternative energy, endangered species, energy, enviro startups, environment, eSolar, solar energy, solar power plants, tagged David Gelbaum, David Myers, eSolar, Quercus Trust, Wildlands Conservancy on August 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
photo: eSolar Last week Green Wombat wrote about how solar power plant developer eSolar may avoid conflicts over endangered species by building its solar farms on privately owned agricultural land rather than in desert areas home to a variety of protected wildlife. At the opening ceremony of eSolar’s Sierra demonstration power plant outside Los Angeles [...]
eSolar’s green edge — critter friendly solar farms
Posted in alternative energy, climate change, endangered species, energy, environment, eSolar, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, Tessera Solar, tagged Bill Gross, David Myers, endangered species, eSolar, Mojave Desert, solar power plants, Wildlands Conservancy on August 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
photo: eSolar eSolar on Wednesday fired up its five-megawatt Sierra “power tower” solar farm outside Los Angeles during an opening ceremony that featured such green tech luminaries as Google.org climate change director Dan Reicher and Dan Kammen of the University of California at Berkeley. But the speaker that caught my eye was environmentalist David Myers, [...]
Race begins for $3b to fund green energy projects
Posted in alternative energy, BrightSource Energy, enviro startups, environment, eSolar, green policy, green tech, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, Stirling Energy Systems, Tessera Solar, tagged BrightSource Energy, eSolar, NextEra Energy, solar power plants, Stirling Energy Systems, Tessera Solar, U.S. Department of Energy on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Texas’ first Big Solar project, PG&E’s deal with NRG/eSolar
Posted in alternative energy, Ausra, BrightSource Energy, environment, eSolar, PG&E, renewable energy, San Diego Gas & Electric, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, tagged Ausra, BrightSource Energy, CPS Energy, eSolar, NRG, PG&E, Stirling Energy Systems, Tessera Solar on June 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
photo: Tessera Solar When it comes to renewable energy, Texas has been all about Big Wind. But this week the Lone Star State took on its first Big Solar project when San Antonio utility CPS Energy signed a 27-megawatt deal with Tessera Solar. Houston-based Tessera is the solar farm developer for Stirling Energy Systems, which [...]
Google-backed eSolar to build New Mexico solar farm
Posted in alternative energy, energy, enviro startups, environment, eSolar, First Solar, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power plants, Southern California Edison, tagged eSolar, New Mexico, NRG, solar power plant on June 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
photo: eSolar California may be in the midst of licensing dozens of massive megawatt solar power plants but New Mexico may be first state out of the gate with a big project using next-generation solar thermal technology. On Thursday, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson announced that Pasadena, Calif.-based eSolar and utility giant NRG Energy will [...]
