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BrightSource Energy’s Solar Energy Development Center. |
BrightSource Energy’s LPT solar thermal system efficiently harnesses the sun’s energy to create clean and reliable solar power. |
Patented optimization software enables BrightSource Energy’s heliostats to track the sun throughout the day to directly concentrate the sun’s energy on the boiler atop the tower. |
Patented optimization software enables BrightSource Energy’s heliostats to track the sun throughout the day to directly concentrate the sun’s energy on the boiler atop the tower. |
A worker walks among the solar field at the Solar Energy Development Center. |
BrightSource Energy’s LPT solar thermal system efficiently harnesses the sun’s energy to create clean and reliable solar power. |
BrightSource Energy’s smaller, flat mirrors are more efficient, simpler to manufacture, and cost less to install than parabolic mirrors used in solar troughs. |
BrightSource Energy’s smaller, flat mirrors are more efficient, simpler to manufacture, and cost less to install than parabolic mirrors used in solar troughs. |
BrightSource Energy’s smaller, flat mirrors are more efficient, simpler to manufacture, and cost less to install than parabolic mirrors used in solar troughs. |
BrightSource Energy’s smaller, flat mirrors are more efficient, simpler to manufacture, and cost less to install than parabolic mirrors used in solar troughs. |
A boiler filled with water sits atop a tower to produce steam at temperatures up to 550 degrees Celcius, more than 1000 degrees Fahrenheit. |
BrightSource Energy’s Solar Energy Development Center in Israel’s Negev Desert. |
BrightSource Energy employees assemble heliostats during construction of the Solar Energy Development Center. |
BrightSource Energy employees assemble heliostats during construction of the Solar Energy Development Center. |
A model rendering of BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. |
A rendering of how heliostats will look at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. BrightSource’s technology design allows the solar field to coexist with existing vegetation. |
High voltage transmission lines cross the site for BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. |
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System site is adjacent to a 36-hole golf course, a major interstate highway, across the highway from The Ivanpah Dry Lake (used for extensive off-road vehicle activity), a natural gas plant, and less than five miles away from a major casino and outlet mall center. |
NRG Energy CEO David Crane addresses the attendees at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. NRG will join BrightSource in the construction, ownership, and operation of Ivanpah. |
Over 450 guests attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, located in Ivanpah, California. Special guests included Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. . |
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, the first utility-scale solar power plant to be built in California in two decades. |
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar congratulate BrightSource Energy on the groundbreaking of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. The 392-megawatt solar thermal power plant is the first to break ground of the 10,000 megawatts planned for the U.S. |
BrightSource Energy CEO John Woolard commends California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for his leadership in promoting clean energy legislation for the state of California. Governor Schwarzenegger attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, a 392-megawatt solar thermal power plant that will create over 1,000 jobs at the peak of construction. |
US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and NRG CEO David Crane observe the groundbreaking ceremony for the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, a 392-megawatt solar thermal power plant to be built in California’s Mojave Desert. |
BrightSource Energy CEO John Woolard speaks at the groundbreaking of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. |
BrightSource executives and special guest speakers present a commemorative plaque in honor of the groundbreaking of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. From left to right: COO Israel Kroizer, NRG CEO David Crane, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, CEO John Woolard, SVP Joshua Bar-Lev, California Building & Construction Trades Council President, Bob Balgenorth and Bechtel Corporation President of Renewable Energy, Ian Copeland. |
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar addresses attendees at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, a 392-megawatt solar thermal facility being build on federal land in southeastern California. |
A BrightSource Energy employee transports heliostats during construction. |
A BrightSource Energy solar thermal power plant under construction. |
A BrightSource Energy employee transports heliostats during construction. |
The solar tower and heliostat mirrors at the Chevron Solar-to-Steam demonstration facility in Coalinga, CA. |
An aerial view of the solar tower and solar field at the Chevron Solar-to-Steam demonstration facility in Coalinga, CA. |
The solar tower and the back of a heliostat mirror at the Chevron Solar-to-Steam demonstration facility in Coalinga, CA. |
An aerial view of the Solar-to-Steam facility, adjacent to Chevron’s Coalinga oil field. |
The 29MW thermal Solar-to-Steam facility is located directly adjacent to Chevron’s Coalinga oil field. |
Chevron’s oil pumpjacks surround the Solar-to-Steam facility. |
Heliostats focus sunlight onto the solar receiver atop the power tower at the Chevron Solar-to-Steam plant. |