Recent News Coverage and Press Releases
[Cool Earth Solar's CPV balloon is an Innovation in Renewable Energy finalist for the 2009 Excellence in Renewable Energy Awards.]… The awards recognize the most innovative technologies, projects and people within the renewable energy industries. The award winners will be announced and recognized at the Renewable Energy World North America Conference and Expo, which takes place in Austin, Texas from February 23-25, 2010.
As solar enthusiasts like to state – The amount of sunlight hitting the earth in one hour could power the whole earth for an entire year. This has become a mantra at Cool Earth Solar.
Solar power has become an acceptable and widely used form of alternative, renewable energy around the world. We have all seen traditional solar panels on homes and businesses. But you have never seen anything like this!
Livermore, California-based CPV technology company Cool Earth Solar has been chosen by AlwaysOn as a GoingGreen Top 100 Winner. The chosen ones have excelled in key strategic areas in the global clean energy technology markets. Companies were selected on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialisation, stakeholder value and media buzz.…
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Cool Earth’s balloons are rather larger than traditional party balloons, having a diameter of about 2½ metres (eight feet), but otherwise they look quite similar.…When all the sums are done, Mr Lamkin reckons his company will be able to sell electricity to California’s grid for 11 cents a kilowatt-hour.…
Solar is poised to become the major player in solving the energy crisis, once the solar industry brings down the costs for utility-scale power production. The stakes for solar—indeed, for all renewables that are competing in the utility-scale arena—are huge, as are the goals.…
Solar energy is the most promising source of clean, renewable energy. It is also one of the most misunderstood.…
…By replacing expensive materials like steel with cheap-as-chips plastic and air, Cool Earth aims to dramatically lower the price of solar electricity.…
…Insert a round plate covered with solar cells into
the balloon and you may have the next idea in renewable power.…
Solar startup Cool Earth Solar is building a small prototype solar plant near its Livermore headquarters.…
…A few years back, a group of West Coast engin-
eers were…looking for a hydrocarbon-free, clean, and renewable energy system that required no major technical breakthroughs…The result: the start-up Cool Earth Solar.…
Recent Press Releases
Cool Earth Solar…has been recognized as a finalist in the Innovation category of the Excellence in Renewable Energy Awards. Being recognized as a finalist in the area of innovation highlights Cool Earth Solar’s role in advancing the adoption of renewable energy throughout North America.…
…Cool Earth Solar was one of only 34 companies selected to present at this year’s event.…Lamkin’s discussion will provide a thought-provoking assessment of the future of solar energy. He will identify key hurdles that must be overcome for solar to reach its potential as an economically viable energy resource.…
January 2010 update: NREL summarizes the event in this downloadable PDF.
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…Cool Earth Solar was specially selected…based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value and media buzz.…
…"We will apply the funding towards expanding our team, developing our technology, and building our state-of-the-art solar power plants. We are actively seeking exceptional engineers, scientists, and manufacturing designers."…
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