LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - 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 ...

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Solar thermal company eSolar has raised a jaw-dropping $130 million in funding from Idealab and Google.org. Instead of burning fossil fuels to create steam that turns generators as in a traditional ...

ESolar Inc. on Tuesday said that it had raised $22 million in additional funding from its existing investors. The money will support the Burbank company’s expansion into the Middle East and North ...

eSolar has named John Van Scoter as CEO. Van Scoter comes to the company with 25 years of experience in developing and implementing global market strategies for up-and-coming technologies. Scoter will ...

eSolar has commissioned a 5MW concentrating solar thermal power plant in the Antelope Valley in eastern Los Angeles County. The 24,000-mirror Sierra SunTower, which the company says is the only power ...

NRG Energy, a major power generator in Texas, is putting $10 million into eSolar, a Pasadena, Calif.-based company trying to develop lower-cost solar power plants. The partnership hopes it can build ...

In a resurgence of life from Southern California's clean technology industry, Burbank-based eSolar announced this morning that it has raised $22M more in a funding round. According to the solar ...

Funding for the solar power start-up comes, in part, from Google, which said last year that it would begin investing in clean-tech companies. Jennifer Guevin was a managing editor at CNET, overseeing ...

eSolar, a global provider of concentrating solar power (CSP) plants, and Penglai Electric, a privately-owned Chinese electrical power equipment manufacturer, announced on Jan. 11 a master licensing ...