| Date | Title | Description |
| 17.09.2013 |
eSolar Raises $22M More
| In a resurgence of life from Southern California's clean technology industry, Burbank-based eSolar announced this morning that it has raised $22M more in a funding round. According to the solar thermal power technology developer, the fundin... |
| 17.09.2013 | eSolar Closes $22M Funding | eSolar, a Burbank, California-based developer of modular, scalable concentrating solar power (CSP) technology, closed a $22m funding.
Backers included existing investor Oak Investment Partners.
The company intends to use the funds to expand... |
| 17.09.2013 | ESolar Raises Additional $22 Million | - |
| 17.09.2013 | eSolar Shines with $22M FUnding |
BURBANK, CA, Leading developer of modular, scalable concentrating solar power (CSP) technology, has closed a $22 million funding tranche from existing investors including Oak Investment Partners.
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| 27.03.2013 |
eSolar Raises $12.8M
| Idealab-based solar energy startup eSolar has just raised $12.8M in a new funding, part of an ongoing $30M funding for the company, according to a regulatory filing by the firm. The funding--which included at least two prior investors, incl... |
| 09.08.2011 | eSolar Glows With $40M |
GE closed a strategic investment in the developer of modular, scalable concentrating solar thermal power technology.
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| 09.08.2011 | GE Invests Up to $40 Million in eSolar | General Electric Co. (GE) bought a minority stake in the California-based solar company eSolar this week. As a result of the deal, Paul Browning, President and CEO of Thermal Products for GE Energy, will join eSolar’s Board of Directors.
ES... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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 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 ... |
| 19.04.2010 |
eSolar Takes $20M More
| Pasadena-based eSolar, the solar thermal technology developer backed by Idealab, Google, Quercus Trust, ACME Group, NRG Energy, and Oak Investment Partners, has raised $20M in an unannounced funding round, according to numbers from the late... |
| 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... |
| 24.01.2010 | Better Place draws massive $350M to charge electric cars | Electric cars will be making their big debut later this year — but one of the biggest questions standing between their release and wide market adoption is charging infrastructure. It doesn’t make much sense to buy a car that you can only fu... |
| 24.01.2010 | Better Place draws massive $350M to charge electric cars | 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!
Electric cars will be making their big debut late... |
| 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? | 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... |
| 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... |
| 21.12.2009 | First Solar laps competition with massive Calif. plant, new deals | With all the hubbub surrounding Solyndra’s IPO filing and SunRun’s new $90 million for residential solar panels, many haven’t been paying attention to the solar industry’s looming giant: First Solar, the largest solar power provider in the ... |
| 21.12.2009 | First Solar laps competition with massive Calif. plant, new deals | 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!
With all the hubbub surrounding Solyndra’s IPO fi... |
| 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 ... |
| 10.09.2009 | Google aims to halve the cost of solar power | What a market leader and major dealer in capital does publicly with their money is revealing. One of the things I admire about Microsoft is that through their Labs and Research initiatives, they’ve done a lot of good work in fields only tan... |
| 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 ... |
| 06.08.2009 | Let there be light: eSolar switches on first U.S. solar thermal tower | 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. solar industry just took a great leap fo... |
| 06.08.2009 | Let there be light: eSolar switches on first U.S. solar thermal tower | The U.S. solar industry just took a great leap forward with eSolar‘s announcement that its 5-megawatt Sierra SunTower is now fully operational. Located in Lancaster, Calif., the array uses 24,000 mirrors to concentrate sunlight on two 160-f... |
| 04.03.2009 | eSolar nabs $30M licensing deal for Indian plants | eSolar has been focusing increasingly on building large-scale plants in the U.S., and shedding plans to do the same overseas. Just last week, it announced that it sold its rights to build 500 megawatts worth of solar-thermal plants to NRG E... |
| 03.03.2009 |
eSolar Lands $30M, Inks India Deal
| Pasadena-based eSolar, which is developing solar thermal power plants and technology, disclosed this morning that it has scored $30M in an investment from Indian firm ACME Group, in conjunction with a deal to construct 1 gigawatt of solar p... |
| 27.11.2007 | Google Takes On Global Warming | Google announced today that it will be investing tens of millions of R&D dollars through its philanthropic arm, Google.org, to develop clean energy technologies that are cheaper than coal. Google co-founder Larry Page thinks that solar ... |