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Solar Thermal Water Heaters

California pushes forward with it's $360 million solar heating program offering financial incentives and market developments through 2018. Similar solar water incentives are setting the standard for renewable ...READ»

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Google's Prototype Mirror Could Cut Costs of Solar Thermal Plant Construction

Google continues its quest to revolutionize the energy industry with a new type of mirror that could cut the cost of building a solar thermal plant in half. The Internet giant is remaining mostly mum about the mirror technology, but ...READ»

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Google Reveals Plan to Cut Solar Thermal Costs By a Quarter

Google isn't content to watch as solar power remains too expensive for mass commercial use--no, the Internet behemoth announced plans yesterday to revolutionize the industry itself by developing mirror technology that could cut the ...READ»

Google Funds New Solar Power Tech, Plans to Cut Solar Thermal Costs by a Quarter

That whole "Google operates a diverse business plan" idea is getting a weird new spin at the moment--news has surfaced that the search engine giant is working hard to improve the tech behind solar thermal heating systems. Technically ...READ»

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PG&E, BrightSource Ink World's Largest Solar Deal

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 Brightsource and ...READ»

Signs of the Times - - and the Times to Come

In the past week I’ve seen three companies and one surprising manifestation of the cleantech revolution that’s shaping up worldwide. All of these observations are worth sharing as a means of peering into the cleantech crystal ...READ»