Solar Millennium (Germany) in Talks to Sell Equipment to U.S. Coal Plant Operators

[jpak]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-10/solar-millennium-in-talks-to-sell-equipment-to-u-s-coal-plant-operators.html

Solar Millennium AG, the German maker of solar-energy systems, is holding talks with U.S. operators of coal-fired power plants to sell them equipment for reducing fuel use, management board member Henner Gladen said.

The potential buyers, based in the southwest, would install its concentrated solar devices next to their power stations, he said in an interview. Gladen declined to estimate the size of deals or name companies in the talks.

“They are making their calculations on the price of coal for the next few years and deciding if it will be cheaper to invest in a solar field,” said Gladen, who’s also chief technology officer. The company’s 484-megawatt solar project approved in July by the state of California may cost $3 billion to build, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance estimate.

Solar Millennium develops and produces parabolic collectors that concentrate sunlight using arrays of mirrors to make steam and turn electric turbines. The U.S. southwest has some of the world’s highest solar radiation levels, and about nine concentrated solar stations have operated there since the 1980s.

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[jpak]

1. The US pioneered solar themal power in the 1980's - the GOP killed that inudustry

now we buy this equipment from Spain and Germany

FU Reagan and California republics

dumbasses

[madokie]

2. Thats great news

Any way we get there is fine with me as long as we don't have to build more nuke plants. It sounds like a no brainer to me. We have a lot of sunny days that something like that could be utilized here at our local coal power plants and they have plenty of room to do it. During the day is when we use the most power anyway so that should allow the coal plants to throttle back some. GRDA which supplies most of our power built a pumped back storage lake back in the sixties that helps them and us to not have to burn so much coal. That little 750 acre 185 feet deep lake is home to some awesome largemouth, spotted and some smallmouth bass too, not to mention the crappie and the other perches and the catfish and the sandies and on and on. I spent 5 years of my life chasing after those fishes on that lake until I finally got burned out. Sorta funny how that all worked out cause about the time I was getting burned out on bass fishing I got married and have been a happily married man since. My old fishing reals, (some of which I held dear,) are pretty much all gone now as I passed them down to the kids to use and lose.