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Solar Thermal News
This feed contains SOLAR THERMAL news articles selected by the Prometheus staff.
BrightSource snags $115M for solar thermal projects
BrightSource Energy, the Oakland, Calif., solar thermal startup, has landed a hefty $115 million funding round to continue developing its solar power tower...
SolarReserve Hires Top Energy and Technology Expert
LOS ANGELES - (Business Wire) SolarReserve, the Los Angeles-based solar thermal power company, has announced the hiring of Tom Georgis as Vice President of...
United States: SkyFuel receives USD17 Million to continue Solar Thermal Development
SkyFuel, Inc. has closed USD17 million of Series B equity financing from investors led by Leaf Clean Energy Company, a publicly traded USD400 million clean energy company advised by Energy & Climate Advisors, a joint venture between...
Inventor, Engineering Students Explore New Type Of Solar Collectors
The energy in this case involves a team of students led by chemical engineering associate professor Dr. Kevin Dahm working with a local inventor to advance a new solar thermal collector the inventor...
Pros & Cons: Distributed Rooftop Solar vs. Desert Solar Thermal [Earth2Tech]
Utilities plan to use solar power from both the massive solar plants that are being built in the California Mojave desert, as well as large scale distributed rooftop solar projects, like the one Southern California Edison is...
Huge solar power project in Kern County moves forward - Central Valley Business Times
Huge solar power project in Kern County moves forward Central Valley Business Times, CA - 47 minutes ago The California Energy Commission has accepted an application to build a 250-megawatt solar thermal generating complex in Kern County...
eSolar Announces Pre-Fabricated Solar Power Plants
eSolar Inc. announced that it has closed $130 million in funding from Idealab, Google.org, Oak Investment Partners, and other investors for the construction and deployment of pre-fabricated power...
FPL Group Announces Strong First Quarter Earnings for 2008
- FPL Group, Inc. (NYSE:FPL): NOTE TO EDITORS: This news release reflects the earnings report of FPL Group, Inc. Reference to the corporation and its earnings or financial results should be to 'FPL Group' and not abbreviated using the name...
NASA Tests HYTHIRM at Sandia's Solar Tower
SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES, NNSA, SOLAR TOWER Contact Information Available for logged-in reporters only Description NASA has once again turned to Sandiaâ s National Solar Thermal Test Facility â aka the Solar Tower â to help...
United States: World's 13 Biggest Solar Thermal Projects
Solar thermal energy plants focus the glare of the Suns rays on a central location to create heat, which is then turned into electricity. Various methods exist to concentrate the solar radiation, including parabolic troughs, power towers...
United States: Google, others provide $130M to eSolar
The solar thermal company eSolar Inc. said Monday it received $130 million in funding from investors that include Google Inc.'s philanthropy unit. Pasadena-based eSolar said funding came from Mountain View-based Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG)...
United States: Stirling engines meet solar power in the desert
An almost two-century old engine technology, paired up with even older solar thermal, pulls in $100 million in financing. Phoenix-based Stirling Energy Systems has received its first big round of funding, putting the concentrating solar...
Linamar Corporation: Linamar Announces Contract in Solar Energy Sector
- Linamar Corporation (TSX:LNR) is pleased to announce the signing of a Letter of Intent with Stirling Energy Systems ('SES') to develop and produce Power Conversion Units (PCU) for use with SES's Sun Catcher solar dish system.
Leaf Clean Energy completes $17 mln investment in SkyFuel
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - AIM-listed Leaf Clean Energy Co., which invests in North American clean energy companies and projects, said it has completed a $17 million series B preferred stock financing in SkyFuel Inc.
Completion of Gamesa Solar and Ener3 Acquisitions Create European Renewable Energy Group With Euro 600 m Capital Investment Plans
Solar power focused, with operations based in Spain and Italy GREENWICH, Conn. and LONDON, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- First Reserve Corporation, the leading private equity firm specialising in the energy industry, has completed the...
Solar Millennium To Operate Solar Thermal Around the Clock
Solar Millennium AG has entered into an agreement with Blue Tower GmbH to use Blue Tower's conversion technology at its solar thermal plants. The goal is for Solar Millennium's solar thermal power plants to work in hybrid operation around...
AdelaideNow... Solar first for Whyalla
THE world's first renewable energy power station capable of producing electricity 24 hours a day will be lighting up homes in Whyalla by the end of next year.
Study: Solar Thermal Power Could Supply Over 90 percent of U.S. Grid Plus Auto Fleet
PALO ALTO, Calif. â Ausra Inc., the developer of utility-scale solar thermal power technology, has published a peer-reviewed study showing that over 90 percent of the U.S. electric grid and auto fleet's energy needs could be met by...
Spain's Abengoa to build 280-MW solar plant in U.S. | Industries | Industrials, Materials & Utilities | Reuters
NEW YORK/MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish engineering firm Abengoa said on Thursday it had signed a deal with a U.S. utility to build what it called the world's largest solar plant near Phoenix, Arizona.
Solar-power upstart Ausra bags more dough | Green Tech blog - CNET News.com
Ausra, which manufactures equipment for solar-thermal power plants, has secured $30 million in venture debt and is negotiating for an "add-on" round of $15 million from original investors Khosla Ventures and Kleiner Perkins Caufield &...