Cool Earth Solar: News Archive
Cool Earth Solar, a utility-scale solar company that provides clean energy at prices competitive with traditional fossil fuels, today announced that it 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.
Editors of Renewable Energy World, the world’s number one renewable energy news source, received hundreds of nominations and narrowed the list to the top companies and technologies leading the advancement of renewable energy. The selected finalists were chosen based on the level of impact and influence they have had in the field of renewable energy.
“The Excellence in Renewable Energy awards recognize the most innovative technologies, projects and people within the renewable energy industries,” said Jennifer Runyon, managing editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com. “Cool Earth Solar’s solar concentrator exemplifies the type of game-changing technology that promises to further the adoption of renewable energy throughout North America.”
Cool Earth Solar has created a breakthrough concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) technology that massively scales to meet the world's power demands at prices competitive with traditional fossil fuels. Unlike most solar energy systems that require large amounts of heavy, expensive materials, Cool Earth Solar’s inflated CPV solution is based on ordinary thin-film plastic and air. When inflated, Cool Earth Solar’s concentrator naturally forms a shape that focuses sunlight onto a PV cell and magnifies it by up to 400 times. This design generates the same amount of electricity as traditional flat-panel PV systems while using up to 300 to 400 times less solar cell material.
“Being named a finalist of the Excellence in Renewable Energy Awards validates our progressive technology design that dramatically reduces the cost and decreases the time-to-market for utility-scale clean energy production,” said Rob Lamkin, CEO of Cool Earth Solar. “We are honored to be recognized by Renewable Energy World editors and congratulate the other finalists in their work to further the role of renewable energy.”
The final awards will be announced on February 23, 2010 at the Renewable Energy World North America Conference and Expo in Austin, TX. A full list of finalists can be found at http://awards.renewableenergyworld.com/.
About Cool Earth Solar
Cool Earth Solar develops, builds and owns solar power plants utilizing its patented concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) technology. By radically reducing the material cost and weight of CPV, Cool Earth Solar is creating a clean energy solution that massively scales to meet the world's power demands at prices competitive with traditional fossil fuels. To learn more about its unique technology, please visit www.coolearthsolar.com.