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Concentrating solar thermal power plant. Credit: BrightSorce Energy

BrightSource Planning 2nd Huge Solar Power Plant in California, Bigger One (+ Top Solar Power Stories)

August 8th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan

BrightSource Energy, which is working on a massive solar power plant in California, the Ivanpah solar power plant (one we've written about numerous times over the years), filed to build two more large-scale power plants in California on Friday. These are each supposed to be almost twice the size of Ivanpah, 250 MW compared to 130

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Google’s Largest Cleantech Investment Yet (In California!)

April 12th, 2011 | by Zachary Shahan

I announced yesterday that Google's investing $5 million into a solar power project in Germany. That's big, and it's Google's first cleantech investment outside the United States. But before we get too pessimistic and down about our dysfunctional political situation and how it's limiting our cleantech growth, let's remember that while a Tea-Party-ruined Congress can't get much done, a number of states are supporting cleantech quite a bit on their own. One such state, as we all know, is California