Stirling Engine Systems is a United States company which develops equipment for utility-scale renewable energy power plants and distributed electrical generating systems. In 2005 it agreed a contract with Southern California Edison to install a 4,600-acre (19 km²) solar system that will generate 500 megawatts. (ref)

Overview

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According to their website, Stirling Energy Systems (SES) is a systems integration and project management company that is developing equipment for utility-scale renewable energy power plants and distributed electric generating systems ("gensets"). SES is teamed with Kockums Submarine Systems, NASA-Glenn Research Center, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and The Boeing Company for solar power plants. SES claims it is positioned to become a premier worldwide renewable energy technology company to meet the global demand for renewable electric generating technologies through the commercialization of its own Stirling cycle engine technology for solar power generation applications. In the future, SES says it will be participating in the biogas, and hydrogen markets.

External links

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• www.stirlingenergy.com, the website of Stirling Energy Systems, Inc.
• Stirling Engine - directory at FreeEnergyNews.com
• http://www.stirlingenergy.com
• World's largest solar installation to use Stirling engine technology - 20-year purchase agreement between Southern California Edison and Stirling Energy Systems, Inc. will result in 20,000+ dish array covering 4,500 acres capable of generating 500 MW, more than all other U.S. solar projects combined. (PESN; Aug. 11, 2005)
• Sandia joins forces with Stirling Energy Systems to build, test mini power plant of six solar dish systems (Sandia.gov; Oct. 29, 2004)
• Солнечные стирлинги дают бой альтернативной энергетике - (Business-Idea.ru)
• July 2005 in Inc. Magazine - If David Slawson is right about solar power, our days of oil dependency are numbered.
• May 2005 in Fortune Magazine - Stirling Energy Systems makes Fortune Magazine’s 25 BREAKOUT COMPANIES 2005.
• Feb 2005 in Popular Science Magazine - Dishing Out Real Power - Costs are down, interest is up, and the Stirling solar system is ready to flick the switch.
• Jan 2005 in US News - It has been said that solar energy is the future of energy and always will be. But growing concern about climate change and high oil prices is generating new interest in ways to more efficiently capture the power of the sun.
• http://isolenr.free.fr/page_fr/accueil_fr.html
• November 15, 2005 in Wired News -Stirling Systems signed contracts with Con Ed to build plants in the Mojave.

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