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    BrightSource Energy’s Luz Power Tower 550 design efficiently harnesses the sun’s energy to create clean and reliable solar power.

    BrightSource Energy’s Luz Power Tower 550 design efficiently harnesses the sun’s energy to create clean and reliable solar power.

    Patented optimization software enables BrightSource Energy’s heliostats to track the sun throughout the day to directly concentrate the sun’s energy on the boiler atop the tower.

    Patented optimization software enables BrightSource Energy’s heliostats to track the sun throughout the day to directly concentrate the sun’s energy on the boiler atop the tower.

    BrightSource Energy’s first 100 MW commercial plant in the Mojave Desert will consist of approximately 50,000 heliostats.

    BrightSource Energy’s Solar Energy Development Center in Israel’s Negev Desert.

    BrightSource Energy’s smaller, flat mirrors are more efficient, simpler to manufacture, and cost less to install than parabolic mirrors used in solar troughs.

    BrightSource Energy’s smaller, flat mirrors are more efficient, simpler to manufacture, and cost less to install than parabolic mirrors used in solar troughs.

    BrightSource Energy’s smaller, flat mirrors are more efficient, simpler to manufacture, and cost less to install than parabolic mirrors used in solar troughs.

    BrightSource Energy’s smaller, flat mirrors are more efficient, simpler to manufacture, and cost less to install than parabolic mirrors used in solar troughs.

    A boiler filled with water sits atop a tower to produce steam at temperatures up to 550 degrees Celcius, more than 1000 degrees Fahrenheit.

    BrightSource Energy’s Solar Energy Development Center in Israel’s Negev Desert.

    BrightSource Energy employees assemble heliostats during construction of the Solar Energy Development Center.

    BrightSource Energy employees assemble heliostats during construction of the Solar Energy Development Center.

    A model rendering of BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Power Complex.

    A rendering of how heliostats will look on the proposed Ivanpah Solar Energy Generating System site. BrightSource’s technology design allows the solar field to coexist with existing vegetation.

    High voltage transmission lines cross the proposed site for BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Energy Generating System.

    The proposed site of the Ivanpah Solar Energy Generating System is adjacent to a 36-hole golf course, a major interstate highway, across the highway from The Ivanpah Dry Lake (used for extensive off-road vehicle activity), a natural gas plant, and less than five miles away from a major casino and outlet mall center.