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The Philippines Passes Renewable Energy FiT
In a historic day for renewable energy in The Philippines, the country approved a feed-in tariff (FiT) that convers small hydro, biomass, wind, and solar. It postponed including ocean energy for further study. The government previously announced the FiT for geothermal separately, in what it calls a “geothermal crash program.” It raised the rates to provide incentives to [...]
Bill Gross: Thoughtful Solar Guy
There are very few people working in Alternative Energy who restrain themselves from making grandiose statements, but Bill Gross of eSolar is one of the few who sticks to the facts, and clearly has worked hard to get through (notaround) the challenges. Here is a tech entrepreneur who reallyunderstands the big themes: energy density, the [...]
Interview with Bill Gross of eSolar
Bill Gross is not your typical solar energy entrepreneur. In a businessdominated by Silicon Valley technologists and veterans of the fossilfuel industry, Gross is a Southern Californian who made his name insoftware. His Idealab startup incubator led to the creation ofcompanies such as eToys, CitySearch, and GoTo.com. The latter pioneeredsearch advertising — think Google — [...]
eSolar unveils solar power tower (with a little help from google)
Why is this man smiling? You’d be smiling, too, if you had just presided over the successfulroll-out of what may be a revolutionary system to generate solar poweron a large scale, using a method that is environmentally sound and cancompete economically with old and dirty technologies. That’s what Bill Gross, the CEO of eSolar, claims [...]
CSP: It’s all done with mirrors
NYT’s Green Inc explains: A picture was worth 24,000 mirrors when eSolar,a company based in Pasadena, Calif., that specializes in solar thermalpower, transformed a vast field of heliostats at its SouthernCalifornia solar farm into a Fourth of July tableau of the Americanflag and the Statue of Liberty…. [CEO Bill] Gross, the founder of the tech-incubator [...]