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Ausra to Build CSP Plant in San Luis Obispo

I’ve reported on new CSP plants that are planned for construction in the desert, but the information below from the New York Times in a 2/1/2008, an article titled, "A Green Energy Industry Takes Root in California" was news to me.

I suspect the future of electrical generation will include a very large dose of small to medium sized CSP plants built fairly close to the customer base so as to reduce distribution costs and losses of power.   This seems like an example. 

"In 2007, 100 megawatts of solar generating capacity was installed in California, about a 50 percent increase over 2006, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association, a trade group.

That growth rate is likely to increase, in part because of ambitious new projects like the 177-megawatt solar thermal plant that Pacific Gas and Electric said last November it would build in San Luis Obispo.

The plant, which will generate power for more than 120,000 homes beginning in 2010, will be built by Ausra, a Palo Alto start-up backed by the investor Vinod Khosla and his former venture capital firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers."

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