NRG Energy and BrightSource Energy Partner on Ivanpah Solar Electric

NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG), through its wholly owned subsidiary, NRG Solar, executed a letter of intent to partner with BrightSource Energy to construct, finance, own and operate the largest solar thermal project in the world, the 392-megawatt (MW) Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in southeastern California’s Mojave Desert. NRG Solar plans to become the [...]

eSolar Partners With Penglai on Landmark Solar Thermal Agreement For China

January 11, 2010  
Written by  in China, Green News, Green News Feature, Solar

According to the Press Release by eSolar, “2 GW to be Built Utilizing Technology Proven at the Sierra Power Plant BEIJING, China and PASADENA, Calif. – January 8, 2010 – eSolar, a global provider of reliable and cost-effective concentrating solar power (CSP) plants, and Penglai Electric, a privately-owned Chinese electrical power equipment manufacturer, today announced [...]

Brightsource pulls out of solar project

September 21, 2009  
Written by  in Solar

According to the Las Vegas Sun, “a California solar energy developer with proposed projects in Nevada has pulled out of controversial plans to build a solar thermal power plant in an intended nature preserve near the California-Nevada border, the company announced today. Oakland, Calif.-based BrightSource Energy had submitted an application to the Bureau of Land [...]