Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the concentrated beams of solar energy focused upward by the plant's 300,000 mirrors — "streamers, ...

BrightSource Energy has raised more than $80 million in equity financing, capital the company will use to build solar thermal power plants in the U.S. and help it expand into international markets, ...

Gamblers barreling up Interstate 15 on their way to Las Vegas next year will encounter an odd sight to their left: three 40-story towers rising from the desert, surrounded by thousands of mirrors and ...

U.S. Department of Energy loan guarantees for BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah solar power project may suffer the same fate as loan guarantees for the failed Solyndra company, government watchdogs fear.

Big Solar didn't stay away for very long. While the recession had a dampening effect on plans for large installations of wind, solar and other alternative energy forms, including pushing back ...

OAKLAND — BrightSource Energy has raised $15 million in an equity and promissory note offering, according to a regulatory filing on Wednesday by the solar energy company. All told, BrightSource Energy ...

LOS ANGELES — BrightSource Energy on Wednesday shelved a major solar power project in California for the second time this year. In a document filed with the California Energy Commission, BrightSource ...

OAKLAND — BrightSource Energy’s massive Ivanpah project in the Mojave Desert was supposed to be its first solar thermal power plant in California. At least three other solar thermal power plants were ...

BrightSource Energy of Oakland, a solar power-plant developer whose first major project won $1.6 billion in federal support, abruptly canceled its initial public stock offering Wednesday night, just ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – BrightSource Energy Inc has shelved a major solar power project in California, its second such move this year. The solar plant developer said in a document filed with the ...