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Siemens Energy control system makes solar thermal debut at Ivanpah
Siemens Energy has secured a follow-on order to supply a set of control systems, steam turbines and generators for BrightSource Energy’s Invanpah solar thermal plant in California’s Mojave Desert.
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Brightsource Energy’s Ivanpah solar project receives permit complaint
One of California’s biggest planned solar energy projects by Brightsource Energy has run into difficulties after a not-for-profit conservation group filed a challenge against it in a district court.
View ArticleIn pictures: Construction of Ivanpah solar thermal project races towards...
Ivanpah, set to be the largest solar thermal power tower system in the world, is now more than 75 per cent complete with 2,100 construction workers racing to get the job done.
View ArticleNRG’s solar earnings up in 2012, 2GW to be added this year
US power generator NRG Energy saw earnings from its solar activities rise in 2012 with the additional of its large-scale Aqua Caliente solar facility and plans to more than 2GW of solar power and...
View ArticleIvanpah solar project reaches ‘first flux’
The Ivanpah solar thermal project, being developed by Brightsource Energy, NRG and Google, has achieved a major milestone creating the ‘first flux’.
View ArticleIvanpah solar-thermal project ’92% complete’
The Ivanpah solar-thermal project has reached 92 per cent completion, with 153,990 out of a total 173,500 heliostats installed at its 3,500 acre Californian site.
View ArticleBrightSource CEO steps down as company changes direction
The head of BrightSource Energy, the company responsible for the Ivanpah solar thermal project, has stepped down after seven years at the helm of the business.
View ArticleBrightSource withdraws 500MW Rio Mesa solar project
BrightSource Energy has finally and definitively withdrawn its concentrated solar photovoltaic Rio Mesa project in a brief note sent to the California Energy Commission.
View ArticleUS solar thermal developer Brightsource gets $15m from equity, note offering
Troubled US solar thermal developer BrightSource Energy, whose CEO stepped down last month, has raised $15m in an equity and convertible promissory note offering through 44 unidentified investors.
View ArticleBrightsource brings solar thermal to China
US solar thermal developer Brightsource Energy has signed a memorandum of understanding with the China Power Investment Corporation that will see it develop solar thermal technology, also known as...
View ArticleWorld’s largest CSP project, Ivanpah, exports first power to grid
The world's largest concentrated solar photovoltaic project, Ivanpah, exported its first output of energy to the grid.
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