{"id":692,"date":"2010-02-17T12:41:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T17:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/esolars-shine-carries-through-into-2010"},"modified":"2010-02-17T12:41:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T17:41:47","slug":"esolars-shine-carries-through-into-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2010\/02\/esolars-shine-carries-through-into-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"eSolar’s shine carries through into 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/o:p><\/span><\/strong>SolidWorks customer eSolar<\/a>
\nis probably one of the only companies that can say \u201cwe had a great 2009\u201d
\nwithout an accompanying eye roll to underscore the irony. But when most of the
\ncountry was marinating in red ink, eSolar opened a first-of-its-kind solar
\nplant in California and capped the year with recognition from a top engineering publication and an
\ninternational economic and social development organization.
<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Power
\nEngineering<\/a><\/em> magazine named eSolar\u2019s Sierra SunTower facility winner of
\nthe \u201cBest Renewable and Sustainable Project\u201d and the World Economic Forum \u2013
\nhost of the prestigious Davos Forum \u2013 named eSolar a 2010 Technology Pioneer. And
\ncarrying its momentum from 2009 into 2010, eSolar announced that a Chinese company is licensing
\nits technology<\/a> in a 10-year deal to produce two gigawatts of power.
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Sierra
\nSunTower is the kind of solar plant that will pull the industry out of the
\n\u201cscience project\u201d box. It is a utility-scale thermal power plant that uses
\narrays of \u201cheliostatic\u201d mirrors to focus sunlight on a collector that pipes
\nsteam to an electric turbine. eSolar used SolidWorks software to design the
\nheliostatic mirror arrays.
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We wrote about eSolar in August<\/a>,
\nand there are updates about the two awards on the company\u2019s news release site<\/a>. 
<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

Mike McGrail is a writer at public relations firm Beaupre, and spends a lot of time talking to SolidWorks customers. He'll be contributing from time to time with interesting stories and updates from SolidWorks customers around the world.<\/span><\/em>
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