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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.
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BrightSource Energy Founding Member of new CSP Alliance
BrightSource Energy, Inc., along with other concentrating solar power companies, Abengoa and Torresol Energy, today announced the formation of the Concentrating Solar Power Alliance (CSPA).
In The News
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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 story behind BrightSource's ditched IPO
CNN Money - When solar thermal company BrightSource Energy withdrew its IPO plans last month there was a collective groan from greentech and solar industry watchers.
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How BrightSource's Solar Power Plant Reduces Its Footprint
Forbes - The $2.2 billion Ivanpah solar-power plant is expected to be the largest concentrated-solar plant in the world. It creates electricity not with black photovoltaic solar panels, but with thousands of mirrors, called heliostats, that bounce the sun’s rays onto a tower. I visited last month and can report that it resembles no power plant I’ve seen.
