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eSolar Banking On Worldwide Partnerships For Deployment Of CSP Technology
Eric Lindeman

Its first utility-scale plant, the 5-megawatt Sierra SunTower project in California, has only been in operation since August, but eSolar has 3,500 megawatts of global partnerships and projects and believes it will be deploying as much as a gigawatt of concentrating solar power in the next few years. With its proprietary combination of optics, software to focus its mirrors, and modular design and construction methods, eSolar is able to achieve economies of scale that overcome the main obstacles to large solar installations—price, scalability, speed of deployment and grid impact, said Robert Rogan, eSolar's senior vice president for the Americas...... Read More »

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The State of Green Investing Today
Jackson Robinson

In our three decades of Green Investing®, never have the environmental challenges loomed so large, nor has the investment universe of sustainable solutions been this compelling. The BP catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is the most recent in a rapidly expanding list of global wake-up calls from Mother Nature. If there were ever a perfect storm brewing, this is it...... Read More »

Making Decisions Across the New Transmission Landscape

The transmission landscape is changing—expanding to improve reliability and accommodate electricity generated with renewable fuels. The Obama administration and many in Congress are pushing that envelope with legislative proposals aimed at encouraging broad and regional transmission site planning while spurring new investment and ownership as well as more open access to transmission lines... More

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