solar-thermal

The company also has invested in several solar facilities, including a 250-megawatt California solar farm that it bought in September from solar-panel maker SunPower Corp. and a 390-megawatt solar-thermal power plant, being built by BrightSource Energy, in which NRG said it would invest $300 million.

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Spotted on Dexigner, the resulting Hill End Ecohouse reuses almost 95% of the existing building materials and features photovoltaic and solar-thermal arrays, a rainwater recycling system and smart climate-oriented design.

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Potential rivals include French power-engineering group Areva S.A. , which bought California-based solar-thermal power developer Ausra in 2010.

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"I still think we're going to see growth in the solar market because it makes commercial sense," said Mr. Smith, whose company obtained a $737 million loan guarantee, and a federal loan, to build a 110-megawatt solar-thermal power plant, with an energy storage component, near Las Vegas.

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General Electric Co. is investing in eSolar, a privately held solar-thermal power developer, and plans to include the company's technology in some natural-gas-fired power plants and solar farms.

GE Announces Investment in Solar-Thermal Company eSolar Cassandra Sweet of Dow Jones Newswires 2011

In 2009, NRG Energy Inc. , the top U.S. independent power producer, invested $10 million in eSolar and started work on three solar-thermal power plants in California and New Mexico.

GE Announces Investment in Solar-Thermal Company eSolar Cassandra Sweet of Dow Jones Newswires 2011

“These are the technologies that are commercially available, ready to scale, and set to go today,” Peter Le Lièvre, the co-founder of Ausra, a solar-thermal company in Mountain View planning a 177-megawatt facility in central California, told me.

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On the supply side, wind and solar-thermal are the most advanced.

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The company's other investors include the Acme Group of India, which invested $30 million in eSolar and signed a licensing agreement to use the California company's technology to build up to 1,000 megawatts of solar-thermal power plants over 10 years.

GE Announces Investment in Solar-Thermal Company eSolar Cassandra Sweet of Dow Jones Newswires 2011

Those facilities use solar-thermal technology to reflect the sun's heat and use it to drive generators, while Desert Sunlight will use photovoltaic panels that absorb sunlight and convert it to electricity.

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