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Powering the People 2.0 Review
Last week I attended the Edison Foundation’s Powering the People 2.0 conference to see AREVA Solar’s Bill Conlon speak about energy innovation. While I was there to listen in about solar energy’s benefits for electric utilities, I couldn’t help but notice a lack of solar in general. I heard a similar theme from an associate [...]
Ausra Reborn as AREVA Solar
The Fresnel reflector is going to take another crack at "crossing the chasm." CLFR, which stands for Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector, is a concentrated solar thermal technology that proponents claim cangenerate 1.5 times to 3 times as much power from a square mile of desert versus power towers, trough systems, or arrays of thin-filmphotovoltaic panels, [...]
Areva Gobbles Up Ausra
Areva, the swarming energy conglomerate, has won the bidding war and purchased Ausra, the solar thermal specialist. Two other conglomerates had been bidding on the company, accordingto sources. One of them, however, was likely not Siemens. Siemensbought rival Solel for $418 million last year. Like many Silicon Valley-funded startups, Ausra came up with a novelidea [...]