In the second big solar power plant deal in a month, start-up eSolar signs deal to supply equipment to NRG Energy for up to 500 megawatts' worth of solar power. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

LOS ANGELES - Solar thermal power company eSolar Inc said on Friday it granted South African company Clean Energy Solutions exclusive rights to represent and distribute eSolar's concentrating solar ...

Bill Gross, the head of start-up incubator Idealab and CEO of eSolar, uses a background in Internet entrepreneurship and software to bring down the cost of utility-scale solar. Martin LaMonica is a ...

In the transition to a clean, green economy, one milestone promises to be the most symbolically powerful. It’s the one adopted as an official target by Google: renewable energy cheaper than coal, or ...

Raises $130 Million from Idealab, Oak, Google to Accelerate Deployment PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, eSolar™, a producer of scalable solar thermal power plants, announced that it has ...

Watch eSolar’s launch live here at 10 am PDT. CEO Bill Gross will be joined by David Meyers, Executive Director of The Wildlands Conservancy, and leading clean energy experts Dan Kammen of UC Berkeley ...

“We are very excited to partner with GE, a global company employing technology excellence in the supply of power generation equipment and services, to create cost-effective, total plant solutions for ...

General Electric Co. (GE) bought a minority stake in the California-based solar company eSolar this week. As a result of the deal, Paul Browning, President and CEO of Thermal Products for GE Energy, ...

Following an announcement last week that utility NRG would build 500 megawatts of solar thermal generation with eSolar designs, a Pasadena, Calif. company, has scored another coup, this time with an ...

A Pasadena company with plans to make small-scale solar power plants announced Monday it had raised $130 million, including money from Google’s charity wing. ESolar said it would use the money from ...