| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.03.2024 | Solar installations skyrocket in 2023 in record-setting first full year of Inflation Reduction Act | - |
| 16.01.2023 | Solar Power Market Size [2022-2029] worth USD 373.84 Billion by 2029 | Exhibiting CAGR of 6.9% | The global solar power market size was valued USD 167.83 billion in 2021 and USD 234.86 billion in 2022 respectively. The global market size is expected to reach USD 373.84 billion by 2029, growing at CAGR of 6.9% during forecast period of ... |
| 14.02.2014 | Sun power goes big time with the world’s largest solar thermal plant | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In what could be a major turning point for indust... |
| 14.02.2014 | Sun power goes big time with the world’s largest solar thermal plant | In what could be a major turning point for industrial-grade solar energy, the Ivanpah solar power plant — the largest solar thermal project of its kind in the world — formally opened Thursday in the Mojave Desert.
“This is a very big deal, ... |
| 13.02.2014 | World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Project at Ivanpah Achieves Commercial Operation | — All Three Units of 392 megawatt Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System Now Delivering Solar Power to California’s Electric Grid — |
| 25.10.2012 | BrightSource raises more than US$80 million additional equity financing | - |
| 25.10.2012 | BrightSource Energy Raises over $80M in Equity Financing | BrightSource Energy, an Oakland, CA-based concentrating solar thermal technology company, has raised more than $80m in equity financing.
The round was led by Alstom and VantagePoint Capital Partners, with participation from DFJ, CalSTRS, DB... |
| 24.10.2012 | BrightSource Raises $80M More for Concentrating Solar Power | Full article from GreentechMedia.com is here. |
| 27.09.2012 | The “Secretary of Explaining Stuff” Lauds BrightSource Energy & Ivanpah Project | You know you’re on the right track when former President Bill Clinton and current “Secretary of Explaining Stuff” takes the stage to say how impressed he was with your technology. |
| 15.06.2011 | U.S. hands out nearly $2B to solar thermal projects | The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a pair of loan guarantees to two solar thermal power companies that amounts to nearly $2 billion.
Abengoa Solar picked up a conditional commitment for a $1.2 billion loan guarantee for its Mojave So... |
| 15.06.2011 | U.S. hands out nearly $2B to solar thermal projects | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a pair ... |
| 25.04.2011 | Dust, turtles threaten BrightSource’s $250M IPO | Solar power provider BrightSource’s $250 million IPO is now riding on whether the company can wash mirrors and care for turtles.
Seriously.
The solar power tower company — which use an array of mirrors to heat water that powers a convention... |
| 11.04.2011 | BrightSource Nabs $168 Million From Google To Develop Ivanpah Solar Power Plant In The Mojave | Developers of large-scale, solar power plants BrightSource Energy Inc. closed another $168 million investment, the company announced today — this time from Google corporate. The funds will go towards the completion of the humongous, Ivanpah... |
| 11.04.2011 | Google Invests $168M in BrightSource Energy’s Tower of Power | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated 4/12/09 00:30 am. See below.] Oakland, CA-based BrightSource Energy disclosed earlier this month that it has raised nearly $202 million in Series E funding from exist... |
| 04.04.2011 | Alstom invests a further US$75m in BrightSource Energy | - |
| 15.02.2011 | $89.6M More for Brightsource | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Brightsource Energy, the Oakland, CA, company constructing a large solar thermal plant in Ivanpah in California’s Mojave Desert, has raised $89.55 million in new equity-based ... |
| 14.02.2011 | BrightSource raises $89M out of planned $100M for solar thermal | Solar thermal company BrightSource Energy has raised $89.5 million out of a planned $100 million round, according to an SEC filing.
Last summer, the company set out to raise $215 million and closed on $176 million of it as of June of last y... |
| 04.08.2010 | California warming up to BrightSource’s 392-MW solar thermal project | BrightSource Energy, one of the most successful companies betting on solar thermal technology, just landed a major victory: an official recommendation for the California Energy Commission’s approval to move forward on a 392-megawatt develop... |
| 04.08.2010 | California warming up to BrightSource’s 392-MW solar thermal project | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
BrightSource Energy, one of the most successful c... |
| 02.08.2010 | Oil-backed Prop. 23 could suspend California emissions reductions, hurt green startups | Come November, California voters could have a major impact on the state’s environment. The ballot will include Proposition 23, a measure that would suspend the Global Warming Solutions Act that passed in 2006 (otherwise known as Assembly Bi... |
| 02.08.2010 | Oil-backed Prop. 23 could suspend California emissions reductions, hurt green startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Come November, California voters could have a maj... |
| 01.07.2010 | Cleantech investment up 65 percent worldwide in first half of 2010 | Venture capital investment in cleantech in the second quarter totaled $2.02 billion across 140 companies in North America, Europe, China and India. A little down from the $2.04 billion invested in the first quarter, the total still reflects... |
| 01.07.2010 | Cleantech investment up 65 percent worldwide in first half of 2010 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Venture capital investment in cleantech in the se... |
| 30.06.2010 | VantagePoint’s Alan Salzman on Tesla and how VCs should think green | I just sat down with Alan Salzman, CEO of VantagePoint Venture Partners — perhaps better known today as the top venture capital firm investing in Tesla Motors — to see how he’s feeling about the big win, and what it might mean for VPVP’s gr... |
| 30.06.2010 | VantagePoint’s Alan Salzman on Tesla and how VCs should think green | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
I just sat down with Alan Salzman, CEO of Vantage... |
| 24.05.2010 | Wafer giant MEMC expands further into solar with $76M Solaicx buy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Solaicx isn’t your garden-variety silicon wafer m... |
| 24.05.2010 | Wafer giant MEMC expands further into solar with $76M Solaicx buy | Solaicx isn’t your garden-variety silicon wafer maker. The Santa Clara, Calif. company says it has devised a manufacturing process that allows it to churn out extremely efficient monocrystalline wafers tailored for the solar market at a vic... |
| 21.05.2010 | BrightSource raises $150 million in equity financing | - |
| 20.05.2010 | BrightSource banks $150M more to take its solar thermal plants global | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
BrightSource Energy, one of the biggest and most ... |
| 20.05.2010 | BrightSource banks $150M more to take its solar thermal plants global | BrightSource Energy, one of the biggest and most promising companies building solar thermal power plants, has just raised $150 million in a fourth round of capital — boosting its total over the $300 million mark — to establish its dominance... |
| 20.05.2010 | BrightSource Energy Raises $150M in Seried D Equity Financing | BrightSource Energy, Inc., an Oakland, CA-based developer of utility-scale solar thermal power plants, has raised an additional $150m in its Series D equity financing.
This round was led by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Morgan Stanley and ... |
| 11.05.2010 | Solaria snaps up $45M for high-efficiency solar modules | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Concentrating solar got a big boost today, with s... |
| 11.05.2010 | Solaria snaps up $45M for high-efficiency solar modules | Concentrating solar got a big boost today, with solar module maker Solaria bagging $45 million in new venture funding. With funding shifting away from capital-intensive renewable energy products, this is a big win for the company, which aim... |
| 22.03.2010 | Chevron launches Project Brightfield to put new solar tech to the test | Chevron is testing several bold new solar technologies under the banner of Project Brightfield. Drawn from 19 companies, these photovoltaic systems, if proven effective, could soon be backed and proliferated by the oil and gas giant.
The pr... |
| 22.03.2010 | Chevron launches Project Brightfield to put new solar tech to the test | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Chevron is testing several bold new solar technol... |
| 01.03.2010 | Great Lakes wind farms are failing the NIMBY test | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Just as the American Southwest is striving to bec... |
| 01.03.2010 | Great Lakes wind farms are failing the NIMBY test | Just as the American Southwest is striving to become the epicenter of the country’s solar market, the Midwest is poised to lead in wind power. But both regions are facing the same, somewhat ironic hurdle: environmental groups who say renewa... |
| 12.02.2010 | Endangered tortoises chase off BrightSource plant plans in California | BrightSource Energy, the company developing California’s first new solar power plant in over two decades, has decided to scale back plans for its massive new solar thermal plant (PDF) in the state’s desert due to concerns over an endangered... |
| 12.02.2010 | Endangered tortoises chase off BrightSource plant plans in California | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
BrightSource Energy, the company developing Calif... |
| 08.02.2010 | Areva buys Ausra, looks ahead to bright solar thermal future | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
French nuclear company Areva has just taken its f... |
| 08.02.2010 | Areva buys Ausra, looks ahead to bright solar thermal future | French nuclear company Areva has just taken its first step into the solar market with the acquisition of Ausra, a Mountain View, Calif.-based maker of solar thermal equipment. The deal represents a major new market for Areva, while simultan... |
| 11.01.2010 | ESolar hits it big, becomes first solar thermal player to land China deal | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
ESolar, a builder of solar thermal equipment and ... |
| 11.01.2010 | ESolar hits it big, becomes first solar thermal player to land China deal | ESolar, a builder of solar thermal equipment and plants, has landed what could be a $5 billion, 2-gigawatt deal in China, putting it among the marquee names in solar, like First Solar and Solyndra. Not only is it breaking out of a pack of c... |
| 07.01.2010 | Google applies to buy and sell energy — is a Googley utility imminent? | Mere days after Google launched its own phone, the Nexus One, it has come out with another big announcement: the creation of Google Energy, a subsidiary that it will use to buy and sell electricity on federally-regulated wholesale energy ma... |
| 07.01.2010 | Google applies to buy and sell energy — is a Googley utility imminent? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Mere days after Google launched its own phone, th... |
| 22.12.2009 | New report: Is First Solar all hat, no cattle? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
First Solar seems to be on a roll. The largest so... |
| 22.12.2009 | Mojave Desert may be off-limits for solar projects | California’s Mojave Desert, some of the most coveted land for companies looking to build solar arrays capable of powering thousands if not millions of homes, may now be off-limits. Senator Dianne Feinstein has proposed the creation of two m... |
| 22.12.2009 | New report: Is First Solar all hat, no cattle? | First Solar seems to be on a roll. The largest solar company in the world, it recently projected 2010 revenue far exceeding analyst expectations, backing it up with the grand opening of a major plant and plans to expand its manufacturing op... |
| 27.10.2009 | Chevron follows the money, bats down climate bill | In a not so surprising turn of events, Chevron’s CEO heir apparent, John Watson, spoke out against U.S. climate change legislation — offering the party line argument that increasing regulation will jack up energy prices and let the air out ... |
| 27.10.2009 | Chevron follows the money, bats down climate bill | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In a not so surprising turn of events, Chevron’s ... |
| 09.10.2009 | Paging Dr. Chu, Venture Capitalist | Silicon Valley is by nature an optimistic place. After all, inventing the carbon-free future and making boatloads of money along the way is fun. And even though California is slouching toward apocalyptic collapse these days, there's always ... |
| 10.09.2009 | Google moves on plans to cheapen solar thermal energy | Google, not content to only use clean technology on its campuses, has decided to get involved in the solar thermal energy business. The company will work to improve the mirrors used in solar thermal systems, making them more affordable for ... |
| 10.09.2009 | Google moves on plans to cheapen solar thermal energy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google, not content to only use clean technology ... |
| 09.09.2009 | BrightSource gets some backup from Bechtel for 440 MW of solar | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
BrightSource Energy, developer of large-scale sol... |
| 09.09.2009 | BrightSource gets some backup from Bechtel for 440 MW of solar | BrightSource Energy, developer of large-scale solar thermal plants, has contracted engineering giant Bechtel to build its Ivanpah Solar Energy Generating System in California — a complex of three solar plants expected to produce 440 megawat... |
| 19.08.2009 | SoCal Edison signs to buy 500 MW from new First Solar plants | Southern California Edison, the major utility that was conspicuously absent from last week’s bevy of applicants for smart grid stimulus funds, has forged a partnership with First Solar to buy electricity from two new thin-film photovoltaic ... |
| 19.08.2009 | SoCal Edison signs to buy 500 MW from new First Solar plants | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Southern California Edison, the major utility tha... |
| 01.04.2009 | VantagePoint strengthens cleantech efforts | VantagePoint Venture Partners has brought two new specialized partners aboard to strengthen its position in the cleantech sector. Mark Plashton hails from Trident Capital, where he also focused on green investments, and Brad Mattson is an e... |
| 22.12.2008 | VantagePoint charges up on $435M for cleantech | The clouds may have rolled in for many other sectors in today’s economy, but the sun still shines on cleantech — and VantagePoint Venture Partners in particular. The San Bruno, Calif.-based firm just landed $435 million for its second fund,... |
| - | 10 really cool Solar Power installations in (and above) the world | Now that solar power is here, and without a doubt racing toward being a leading source of global electricity, we’ve now got some really cool, established solar power systems. Some on Earth, some above, some giant, some small. The flexibilit... |
| - | Electricity disrupted: US-based solar + storage at $0.028/kWh w/ world’s largest (again) proposed solar power plant | Solar thermal + storage is trying to come to the United States in form of the largest solar power plant in the world. SolarReserve has proposed a 2GW Solar Thermal + Molten Salt power plant for the State of Nevada.
The company has already b... |
| - | EGEB: Skyscraper-high solar tower in Israel, solar rebound, DOE tech, and more | In today’s EGEB:
The world’s largest solar tower has been completed in Israel.
The expected solar industry rebound is taking shape — at least in California.
The Department of Energy dedicates funding to AI and machine learning in energy tec... |
| - | BrightSource Raises $80M More for Concentrating Solar Power | Full article from GreentechMedia.com is here.
BrightSource Energy, a concentrating solar thermal technology firm, just announced that it raised more than $80 million in equity financing, bringing its total equity fin... |
