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| Posted on 8/9/09
Constructed in less than a year (that’s fast!) and creating over 320 jobs, the SunTower is the first of several “solar” planned developments in the Antelope Valley area.
A company known as eSolar unveiled a new solar thermal tower in California, the 5-megawatt Sierra SunTower solar power plant! The full-scale power plant produces electricity for Southern California Edison.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger praised the “historic plant opening” that had been put in place by the state’s solar-friendly policies. So finally we see some action and not a lot of talk.
Excerpt form eSolar, “Today, we unveil a new blueprint for solar energy — one that leverages Moore’s law rather than more steel,” said Bill Gross, CEO of eSolar. “Sierra is just the beginning. Soon eSolar technology will be deployed worldwide to provide clean, affordable energy to hundreds of thousands of homes.”
And eSolar’s CEO Bill Cross said, “Sierra is just the beginning. Soon eSolar technology will be deployed worldwide to provide clean, affordable energy to hundreds of thousands of homes“.
eSolar uses – “ software algorithms to precisely focus thousands of mirrors on a single point to efficiently harvest the sun’s energy and achieve economies of scale with a smaller footprint than anyone else in the business“The 5-megawatt Sierra SunTower plant is the only of its kind in the entire US, and the facility is able to power over 4,000 homes through Southern California Electric.
