BrightSource Energy, Inc. designs, develops, and deploys solar thermal technology to produce high-value electricity and steam for power, petroleum, and industrial-process markets worldwide.
From the Blog
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Translocating Desert Tortoise at the Ivanpah Project
At our Ivanpah project, we are working closely with the state and federal agencies to provide the highest levels of care for the desert tortoise found on the project site.
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Thank you very much...
The Ivanpah project has been racking in the awards in the past few months!
News & Press
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BrightSource Argues for a New Way to Value Solar Power Plants
GreenTech Media - How do you accurately assess and effectively manage the costs of integrating the new kind of variability from renewables like wind and solar into transmission systems that are habituated to the more familiar standards of fossil and nuclear generation?
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The Ivanpah Solar Project Named 2012 Energy Project of the Year
NRG Energy, Google, BrightSource Energy and EPC partner Bechtel announced that the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System (Ivanpah SEGS) received the 2012 Energy Project of the Year Award by the USC CMAA Green Symposium.
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BrightSource Energy Withdraws Initial Public Offering Due to Adverse Market Conditions
BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading solar thermal technology company, today announced that it has decided not to pursue its initial public offering due to adverse market conditions.
Featured Resources
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The Value of Concentrating Solar Power and Thermal Energy Storage
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
This paper examines the value of concentrating solar power (CSP) and thermal energy storage (TES) in four regions in the southwestern United States.
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Corporate Overview
BrightSource Energy is a leader in solar thermal technology. We concentrate the sun’s limitless energy to produce high-value steam for electric power, petroleum and process markets worldwide.
BrightSource is uniquely positioned and singularly determined to lead the way in responding to the need for clean, reliable, renewable energy.
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Coalinga Project Facts
Coalinga solar-to-steam facility is the world’s largest solar enhanced oil recovery facility. Chevron selected BrightSource to provide its proprietary solar technology for a solar thermal enhanced oil recovery (EOR) demonstration facility in Coalinga, California.

