Bill Gross might just be the quintessential inventor / entrepreneur. Born in the late 1950s, Gross began inventing gadgets in high school, and had founded a company by college. After graduating he ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

A southern California startup called eSolar has become the first company in its category to land a deal in China, and it's a big one: 2,000 megawatts, or enough to power several million Chinese homes ...

Watch eSolar’s launch live here at 10 am PDT. CEO Bill Gross will be joined by David Meyers, Executive Director of The Wildlands Conservancy, and leading clean energy experts Dan Kammen of UC Berkeley ...

18 February 2010 – Solar thermal manufacturer eSolar and Ferrostaal, a leading power plant developer, have forged a partnership to deploy turnkey solar power plants in countries including Spain, the ...

The deal was signed in the Chinese State Council building with government officials in attendance and represents the country’s largest CSP project. Groundbreaking of the first 92 megawatts (MW) will ...

ESolar Inc. of Pasadena signed an agreement Friday to build a series of solar thermal power plants in China with a total capacity of 2,000 megawatts, in one of the largest renewable energy deals of ...

SAN JOSEand BURBANK, Calif., May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Two global companies, eSolar and Sanmina-SCI (Nasdaq: SANM), today announced that they have partnered to leverage their respective expertise in ...

In the second big solar power plant deal in a month, start-up eSolar signs deal to supply equipment to NRG Energy for up to 500 megawatts' worth of solar power. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer ...

Does General Electric chief Jeffrey Immelt aim to be the new sun king? GE made another move into the nascent solar industry on Monday, taking a stake in California solar power plant builder eSolar and ...

Southern California Edison said Tuesday that it agreed to buy 245 megawatts of power from solar plants to be built in the Antelope Valley by ESolar Inc., a unit of Pasadena-based business incubator ...

eSolar, the leading provider of modular, scalable concentrating solar power (CSP) plant technology, and Sanmina-SCI, a leading integrated manufacturing services company that produces some of the world ...