Cool Earth Solar: News Archive

Cool Earth Solar, developer and owner of high concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) power plants successfully participated in the 2007 Renewable RFO issued by many of the California Electric Utilities. California is a leader in adopting clean energy by requiring its Utilities to utilize power generated from renewable sources. Cool Earth is proud to help meet this State goal and is actively developing power projects.

The State of California has mandated through legislation that the Utilities serve 20% of their customer requirements with energy generated from clean renewable power plants by 2017. Policy guidelines by the California Public Utilities Commission and California Energy Commission increase this requirement to 33% by 2017. To meet this requirement, the Utilities are actively seeking new clean resources.

According to Rob Lamkin, CEO of Cool Earth Solar, successful renewable power must be economically competitive as well as clean. “Cool Earth Solar’s technology makes deployment of solar power economically viable as a utility scale application. This solution is immediately available and we will continue to develop this technology to have costs on par with current grid based electricity generation sources.”

About Cool Earth Solar

Cool Earth Solar develops and builds solar concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) systems intended for utility scale application. By radically reducing the material and weight of CPV, Cool Earth Solar has developed a cost effective power plant design that can compete economically with conventional fuels.