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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Southern California Edison said Tuesday that it agreed to buy 245 megawatts of power from solar plants to be built in the Antelope Valley by ESolar Inc., a unit of Pasadena-based business incubator ...

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, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, Google announced it’s investing $10 million in eSolar, a solar thermal company, as part of its RE<C project. (Speaking of the latter, we’ve got an excellent interview on it coming up soon.) ...