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Two New Solar Power Plants For California4 comments

TonyfromOz wrote 4 weeks ago: THE WAY OF THE FUTURE? Two Companies have announced plans to construct Solar Electrical Generating p … more →

Tags: America (USA), climate alarmists, Climate change, environment, Environment, Environmental activists, Global Warming, Propaganda, BrightSource, Concentrating Solar Power

What is a green business?

matthewclifford wrote 1 month ago: A quick google search for ‘green business’ yielded 170,000,000 results.  So what are the … more →

Tags: Green business - general, Green Business, green jobs, Rio Tinto, Government Regulation, social licence to operate, carbon disclosure project, Corporate Greenie, scope 1 2 and 3 emissions

Solar Thermal Startup Ausra Tracks Down $25.5M4 comments

Katie Fehrenbacher wrote 2 months ago: Earlier this year solar thermal startup Ausra cited a lack of financing as the reason for scaling ba … more →

Tags: startups

So Cal Edison and BrightSource Sign Huge 1.3GW Solar Deal7 comments

Katie Fehrenbacher wrote 5 months ago: Despite the fact that solar thermal companies like Ausra are pulling back on the business model of … more →

Tags: Energy, NYT Startups, CNN Green, CNN Startups, SYN Analysis, SYN Straight News, PG&E, BrightSource, SCE

The Real Reason PG&E Wants to Own Solar Projects: Startups Are Risky12 comments

Katie Fehrenbacher wrote 5 months ago: Last week the CEO of northern California utility PG&E, Peter Darbee, made one of the strongest p … more →

Tags: CNN Green, Energy, NYT Enterprise, SYN Feature Enterprise, BrightSource, OptiSolar, Peter Darbee, PG&E

SunPower Takes Ausra Spot In Solar Utility Projects; To Benefit From U.S. Stimulus

Jean-Baptiste Su wrote 5 months ago: Nature abhors a vacuum. Yesterday, the San Jose Mercury News reported that solar startup Ausra was l … more →

Tags: Alternative Energy, News, obama, Sunpower

Daily Sprout1 comment

Josie Garthwaite wrote 5 months ago: Ausra Scales Back Solar Plans: Solar startup Ausra has abandoned plans to build massive solar-therma … more →

Tags: Misc, solar, Sunpower, DoE, Cigs, Energy, obama, Economic Crisis, Daily Sprout

Kleiner Perkins Seeks Follow-on Funds for Green Growth Startups

Josie Garthwaite wrote 6 months ago: Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins has reopened its $500 million Green Growth and $700 million KPC … more →

Tags: startups, NYT Company News, NYT Startups, CNN Green, CNN Startups, SYN Straight News, Fisker Automotive, kleiner perkins, AltraBiofuels

Solar Firms Are Slashing Jobs14 comments

Katie Fehrenbacher wrote 6 months ago: We’ve all read the ugly news: some 500,000 jobs lost in December, and layoffs happening all ov … more →

Tags: CNN Green, CNN Startups, Energy, NYT Startups, SYN Straight News, Evergreen Solar, Suntech, SunEdison, GT Solar

Three Green Tech Startups Offer Unique Business Plans For Electric Cars, Alternative Fuels And Energy For Industry

Mark Boslet wrote 7 months ago: The alternative-energy revolution was chugging ahead at the AlwaysOn Venture Summit on Wednesday, wh … more →

Tags: Venture Capital, startups, Alternative Energy, clean tech, Solar energy, Global Warming, green technology, Electric Cars, AlwaysOn Venture Summit

FPL Breaks Ground on Solar in the Sunshine State1 comment

Katie Fehrenbacher wrote 7 months ago: The Sunshine State this week moved one step closer toward capitalizing on its namesake and becoming … more →

Tags: Energy, Hitlines, NYT Company News, CNN Green, solar thermal, FPL

two facets of solar: a plea to california voters2 comments

alex wrote 8 months ago: I’ve recently come across two interesting improvements to different methods of creating solar … more →

Tags: Materials, Green, Design, Prop 7, Proposition 7, California, solar, Thermal, Energy

Ausra Turns On Solar Thermal Power Plant

Katie Fehrenbacher wrote 8 months ago: Ausra, the posterchild for the next generation of utility-scale solar thermal plants, has turned on … more →

Tags: startups, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kimberlina, PG&E

Our part of the oil problem10 comments

Kim Jarrett wrote 9 months ago: A few days ago Robert Rapier posted some comments on his energy blog.  He essentially said that to r … more →

Tags: oil ethanol, deregulation, Gas Tax, robert rapier

Ausra: Financial Markets Could Effect Utility Solar Projects9 comments

Katie Fehrenbacher wrote 9 months ago: Ausra has been one of the most high-profile solar startups to get backing from Silicon Valley, but b … more →

Tags: startups

Ausra Heats Up With $60.6M to Build First U.S. Solar Project4 comments

Katie Fehrenbacher wrote 9 months ago: We were pretty sure that the news that solar thermal startup Ausra had raised $25 million back in Au … more →

Tags: startups, solar thermal

Solar Map: More Than 30 Utility-Scale Solar Plants in the U.S.17 comments

Craig Rubens wrote 10 months ago: There are more than 30 utility-scale solar power plants, one megawatt or larger, under various stage … more →

Tags: Big Green, BrightSource, First Solar, FPL, OptiSolar, PG&E, San Diego Gas & Electric, Solar Power, solar thermal

Ausra: Big Solar Getting Bigger5 comments

Katie Fehrenbacher wrote 11 months ago: Ausra, the startup that’s building massive solar thermal plants in the desert and has already … more →

Tags: startups

Intersolar: News From 5 Solar Startups2 comments

Katie Fehrenbacher wrote 1 year ago: The first annual North American solar conference kicked off on Tuesday with a lot of insight and dis … more →

Tags: startups, sopogy, Wakonda, Fat Spaniel, recurrent energy


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