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Yissum, BrightSource Collaborate On Solar Thermal Research
Yissum Research Development Co. of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ltd., the technology transfer arm of the university, has signedtwo research agreements with BrightSource Industries Israel (BSII) forthe development of new materials for solar thermal power plants. Underthe agreement, BSII will fund research in the laboratories ofProfessors Daniel Mandler and Shlomo Magdassi, both from the [...]
BrightSource Solar Expands On Coyote Land In Nevada
Following recent news that environmentalists lobbied to have a solar energy project cancelled in Californiadue to fears it would ruin protected land in the Mojave Desert,BrightSource, the company in question, made its announcement today thatit has other plans up its sleeve –– to expand its output in anotherstate: From a press release: “BrightSource Energy, Inc., [...]
BrightSource Plans for Larger Buildout in Nevada
BrightSource Energy hasstruck a preliminary deal with Coyote Springs Land Co. in Nevada toexpand a previous land lease agreement and increase the size of itssolar thermal power development to 960 megawatts from 600 megawatts. The latest deal calls for building solar thermal power plants in a12-square-mile zone within Coyote Spring’s property in Lincoln County.Back in [...]
BrightSource Debacle in the Desert: Can Solar Power, Conservation, and Sustainability Co-Exist?
On Thursday, September 17, BrightSourceformally announced that they are abandoning efforts to build a solarfarm on 5,000 acres of public land in the Mohave desert near Ludlow,California. Though the announcement ended months of contentious – and at times, bitter – conflict between a well funded and well managed solar venture and a committed and respected [...]
BrightSource’s Mojave Desert Solar Project Result Terminated Due To Conflict
It’s been a turbulent week for solar in California. First, GovernorSchwarzenegger rejects legislation that lawmakers have toiled over forthe past nine months in favor of his own executive order. Now Oakland, CA-based BrightSource Energy Inc. has shelved its proposal for a controversial 500-megawatt solar thermal plant in a swath of Mojave Desert land known as [...]
BrightSource Solar Energy Teams up with Bectel to Build Large California Solar Energy Facility
Following a previous agreement made between the BrightSource solar energy company and California’s PG&E utility company, a recent article in Israel’s financial newspaper, Globes (9.10.2009) notedthat the American-Israeli solar energy giant is now partnering withthe American Bectel construction contracting company to build a 440megawatt solar energy power plant in southeastern California. Involving the Ivanpah Solar [...]
Bechtel Teams Up With Brightsource on Project, Engineering
One of the big questions in the solar thermal world has been how will start-up BrightSource Energy manage to finance the 2.6 gigawatts worth of power plants it has signed contracts to build. A large part of the answer came out today when it announced that Bechtel,the grandfather of global engineering, will invest in one [...]
BrightSource Lands Chevron Deal
BrightSource Energy has landed its first-ever project to use its solar thermal technology for steam generation. The Oakland, Calif.-based startup said Friday it has been tapped by Chevronto build a 29-megawatt thermal plant at Chevron’s oil field in centralCalifornia, said Keely Wachs, a spokesman for BrightSource. BrightSource is better known as the startup that has [...]
Flat Mirrors at Center of Solar Thermal Smackdown
Flat means flat, right? In most context yet, but the definition of the word was a bit of askirmish this week in the world of solar thermal and it opened up aportal onto an issue that even many people steeped in solar didn’t knowexisted. On Wednesday, eSolar unveiled its 5 megawatt solar thermal plant inSouthern [...]