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BrightSource Energy
BrightSource Energy, Inc. is an Oakland, California based, corporation that designs, builds, finances, and operates utility-scale solar power plants.
Greentech Media ranked BrightSource as one of the top 10 greentech startups in the world in 2008.
==History==
BrightSource was formed with seed capital from VantagePoint Venture Partners. It secured $115 million in additional corporate funding from its Series C round of financing in May 2008. This brings the total the company has raised to date to over $160 million. Investors include Google.org, BP Alternative Energy, Morgan Stanley, DBL Investors, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Chevron Technology Ventures, Statoil Venture, and Black River.
BrightSource Industries (Israel) Ltd., formerly named Luz II Ltd.,〔(''Company Overview of BrightSource Industries (Israel) Ltd.'' )〕 is a wholly owned subsidiary of BrightSource Energy, Inc. Based in Israel, BrightSource Industries is responsible for solar technology development, plant design and engineering.
In March 2008, BrightSource entered into a series of power purchase agreements with Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) for up to 900 MW of electricity. BrightSource is currently developing a number of solar power plants in Southern California, with construction of the first plant planned to start in 2009.
In February 2009, BrightSource contracted to sell power from seven solar power towers in the Mojave Desert to Southern California Edison (SCE). The plants will have a combined capacity of 1,300 MW, producing 3.7 billion kilowatt-hours per year. The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, BrightSource's 392 MW, plant opened on February 13, 2014.〔
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The total cost of the Ivanpah project was $2.2 billion. The largest investor in the project was NRG Energy, a power generating company based in Princeton, New Jersey, that contributed $300 million. Siemens supplied instrumentation and control systems as well as steam-turbine generators.
In 2010, BrightSource hired Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs to begin preparations for a public offering in 2011. Its fourth round of equity financing in May netted $150 million, bringing total equity financing to $330 million to date.〔By Iris Kuo, VentureBeat. "(Brightsource quietly moving towards IPO in 2011 )." Access date September 22, 2010.〕
In November 2011, Google announced that they would stop investing in CSP projects due to the rapid price decline of photovoltaics. Google spent $168 million on BrightSource.〔(Google cans concentrated solar power project ) ''Reve'', 24 Nov 2011. Accessed: 25 Nov 2011.〕 In December 2011, Google and KKR & Co. announced an agreement to invest in four California solar power plants with total capacity of 88 megawatts.〔(Google Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (RE)〕
In December 2011, The California Energy Commission (CEC) began to review a proposed 750 MW Rio Mesa Solar Project in Riverside County, California. BrightSource Energy Inc. is the developer for this project.〔States News Service, Power Engineering. "(ENERGY COMMISSION BEGINS REVIEW FOR RIO MESA SOLAR ELECTRIC GENERATING FACILITY )." 12/15/2011. Retrieved 12/16/2011.〕〔California Energy Commission, SolarServer. "(Concentrating solar power: CEC to begin review of 750 MW Rio Mesa project )." 12/15/2011. Retrieved 12/16/2011.〕
In 2009, BrightSource Energy announced plans to build a solar thermal power plant in Coyote Springs that would be on line by 2012. As of 2011, the project had not yet broken ground and the production start date had been pushed back to 2014 for the first stage, and 2015 for the second stage. As of December 2013, Brighthouse is in court with Coyote Springs over costs associated with Brighthouse failing to perform this project. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BrightSource, Coyote Springs divorce messy )〕
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