News - BrightSource

		Ivanpah site visit announced for CSP Today USA in June
		2013/05/18 Attendees of CSP Today USA 2013 (26-27 June, Las Vegas) will be given a unique opportunity to visit the 392MW Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, the largest CSP plant under construction in the world.

		BrightSource Energy Helps Build Unique Concentrated Solar Power Plant
		2013/04/24 ISEGS is a 392 megawatt concentrating solar power (CSP) complex using more than 300,000 garage-door-size mirrors to focus the power of the sun on solar receivers atop power towers.

		BrightSource Energy Suspends Hidden Hills Concentrating Solar Power Project
		2013/04/11 BrightSource Energy has suspended its proposed Hidden HIlls Solar Electric Generating System project and cancelled an agreement with Pacific Gas & Electric to buy the power from the project.

		Partnership at Palen: BrightSource Inks Deal with Abengoa
		2013/04/09 The 500 megawatt (MW) Palen solar thermal power system will use proven solar thermal tower technology to produce clean, reliable solar electricity to more than 200,000 homes.

		BrightSource Energy Pushes Ahead on Another Concentrating Solar Power Plant
		2013/04/04 Solar thermal technology may be better suited to electric utilities than solar photovoltaics.

		Largest Solar Towers Take to the Sun
		2013/03/29 California will soon be home to the world’s two largest solar towers through an ambitious project known as The Palen Solar Electrical Generating System.

		BrightSource Energy Heats Up Concentrating Solar Tower
		2013/03/22 Two years and four months after the project broke ground, the massive Ivanpah power-tower solar energy plant in the California desert is heating water.

		Abengoa And BrightSource Energy Partner To Build The World’s Two Largest Solar Power Towers
		2013/03/21 Two of the world’s leading concentrating solar power (CSP) companies join to build the 500 megawatt (MW) Palen solar complex.

		BrightSource Energy CEO Keynotes on Ivanpah, Carbon, and Financing CSP
		2013/03/19 How do you decarbonize the power supply and maintain system reliability at the lowest total cost to customers?

		A Climb Up the SolarReserve Concentrated Solar Power Tower
		2013/03/14 Concentrating solar power with storage is coming soon.

		Azima DLI and Ivanpah Concentrating Solar Power Announce Predictive Maintenance Agreement
		2013/03/09 World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Tower System Takes Unique Approach to Predictive Maintenance Implementation in an Effort to Protect Against Unplanned Downtime.

		Ivanpah concentrated solar power plant passes its first functional test
		2013/03/07 The 377-megawatt Ivanpah solar thermal power plant achieved a milestone in its development recently, something called the “first flux.”

		Update from the Ivanpah Concentrated Solar Power Plant
		2013/03/02 More than 11,000 assemblies were completed in January – that is enough mirrors to cover nearly 40 NFL football fields.

		Palen Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) project cuts down the public land acreage by 572 acres
		2013/02/21 BrightSource says its redesign of Solar Millennium's original project cuts down the public land acreage by 572 acres.

		California finds environmental impacts to birds from Hidden Hills CSP project
		2013/02/13 Among the concerns cited are impacts to birds, Native American sites and a historic trail, and impacts to visual resources.

		Concentrated solar thermal power makes comeback in southeastern California
		2013/02/08 NextEra Energy’s 250-megawatt Genesis project, using solar trough technology without storage, could be the first to come online, later this year.

		2013: An important year for Concentrating Solar Power in the United States
		2013/02/08 Between now and early 2014 the total generation capacity of concentrated solar power in the United States will increase by more than 120%.

		BrightSource’s Heliostat Technology
		2013/02/04 The Ivanpah solar project just celebrated installation of the 100,000th heliostat, but what, you may ask, is a heliostat?

		BrightSource's Rio Mesa Concentrating Solar Power project on hold
		2013/01/25 SCE still holds CPUC-approved PPAs for electricity to be generated by BrightSource's 790 MW Sonoran West CSP project, which is also located in Southern California.

		The Value of CSP with Thermal Storage
		2013/01/03 The Concentrating Solar Power Alliance (CSPA) has just released “The Economic and Reliability Benefits of CSP with Thermal Energy Storage: Recent Studies and Research Needs.”