New Technologies Deployed at Israel’s Ashalim Solar Thermal Power Station Reduce Costs, Accelerate Construction Schedule and Increase Energy Production OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BrightSource ...

OAKLAND — BrightSource Energy’s massive Ivanpah project in the Mojave Desert was supposed to be its first solar thermal power plant in California. At least three other solar thermal power plants were ...

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 ...

Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the concentrated beams of solar energy focused upward by the plant's 300,000 mirrors — "streamers, ...

Big Solar didn't stay away for very long. While the recession had a dampening effect on plans for large installations of wind, solar and other alternative energy forms, including pushing back ...

SE, now renamed Kelvin Energy Inc. (“KE”), has become a minority shareholder in New BrightSource. “This transaction, via a debt-free New BrightSource and its world class management and technology team ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AlwaysOn today announced the winners of its GoingGreen 100 Top Private Companies and named BrightSource Energy as the GoingGreen overall winner. Other category winners ...

BrightSource has been on an all-out fundraising mission over the past few months. The company set out to raise $215.5 million in equity and options and closed about $176 million of that in summer 2010 ...

California utility Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) inked a $2 to $3 billion solar deal last year with Brightsource Energy for 900MW of solar thermal power. Now PG&E has furthered its commitment to both ...

Large-scale solar plant developer BrightSource Energy is quietly preparing for an IPO, reports Dow Jones Venture Wire, citing two people familiar with the company’s plans. According to the article, ...